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Wordpress Administrator - Training Report

Ubong Essien completed a 5-day WordPress Administrator training course from 12-17 April 2021. The training covered WordPress development including themes, plugins, security and SEO. Participants learned how to set up local and live WordPress sites, customize pages and blogs, install plugins, and optimize sites. Essien gained hands-on experience developing a sample website, and valuable skills in WordPress administration.

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Wordpress Administrator - Training Report

Ubong Essien completed a 5-day WordPress Administrator training course from 12-17 April 2021. The training covered WordPress development including themes, plugins, security and SEO. Participants learned how to set up local and live WordPress sites, customize pages and blogs, install plugins, and optimize sites. Essien gained hands-on experience developing a sample website, and valuable skills in WordPress administration.

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TRAINING REPORT

Ubong Essien - ICT Officer 2


Course Title: WordPress Administrator
Institution: LASU CBT18
Location: GRA Ikeja, Lagos
Date: 12th – 17th April 2021

Training Overview
This training covers WordPress development which includes themes and plugins, PHP
modifications, WordPress security and advanced SEO techniques, as well as WordPress
administration which spans Local development and migration to a hosting provider. The
entirety of the training was practical based, applying the techniques in developing a dummy
NGF homepage which can be temporarily found at http://leonsciences.com/. The training
was conducted for 5 days. Below is a breakdown of the training and some personal
takeaways.

Day One
Local Environment Set up:
In this exercise, participants were tasked with setting up a local host server. To enable
WordPress to run locally, a localhost server had to be configured on a desktop. Several tools
can be used to set up a localhost server on a computer such as WAMP, XAMPP, LAMP.
However, for this training, XAMPP was installed on the desktop as the localhost.

WordPress Set up:


Participants were charged with installing WordPress on the desktop configured with the
localhost server. This exercise required participants to download WordPress executable file
from WordPress.org, run the installation locally by transferring the WordPress file content
into the htdocs directory of the XAMPP directory found in the computer’s local hard drive.
Afterward, all necessary configurations such as the Database and site admin configuration
were performed.

Day Two
Purchase of Hosting Plan from a Host Provider:

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A domain name and a shared hosting plan was purchased from a host provider
“HostNowNow” found at “https://hostnownow.com/.” This took some hours for the
domain name to propagate over the internet. At this point, participants were taught how to
edit images using two online tools known as Canva and Pixel. The former is used to
customize images to any size needed for your WordPress post, while the latter is used to
reduce images to a particular pixel and dimension.

Day Three
WordPress Customization
In this lab exercise, participants performed the following activities.
 Configured the WordPress settings by going to the “Settings” on the Dashboard.
 Created 5 web pages named - Home, About Us, Policy Area, Blog, Contact.
 Added the Pages to the “Menu” and styling it. This was done from the “Appearance”
tab on the Dashboard.
 Set the site identity options which included site name, logo, description, favicon, etc.

Day Four
WordPress Home Page Customization:
In this lab exercise, participants performed the following activities.
 Used Canva to edit some images we got from the internet for the home page.
 Customized all sections of the home page.
 Added various elements to the page, such as the image carousel.

WordPress Blog Page Customization:


Participants performed the following activities.
 Added contents to the site and published it from the “Post” area on the Dashboard.
 Installed a popular and widely recommended blog post management plugin called
“The Post Grid.”
 Organized the display of posts on the Homepage and Blog Page using “The Post
Grid.”

Day Five
Participants were taken through WordPress plugins that can be used to achieve Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) and WordPress security as well as considerations to have when
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choosing a plugin. SEO is considered to improve the quality and quantity of website traffic to
a website from a search engine. Recommended WordPress SEO plugins include Yoast SEO,
Squirrly SEO, Google Analytics Dashboard, All in One SEO Pack, etc. Also, the importance of
WordPress security cannot be overemphasized. Recommended plugins include Sucuri
Security, All-in-One WordPress Security and Firewall, Defender, VaultPress.
The actions performed by these WordPress security plugins include and are not limited to
security activity auditing, file monitoring, and malware scanning, spam, bot-blocking, and
two-factor authentication for all users.

Other notable concepts taught include:


1. Site management: Using plugins such as W3 Total Cache which checks the speed of
your WordPress site and helps reduce page load time.
2. Cpanel administration: Which includes storage, compute, backups, email setup, etc.
3. Old website content retrieval: Using the website “archive.org.”

Personal Takeaways from the Training


1. Exposure to best- in -class, instructor-led training.
2. Hands-on approach learning through the lab activities.
3. Access to Professional WordPress books and reading materials.
4. Networking opportunities with fellow professionals.
5. Phone and Email support from the instructor.
6. Award of Certificate of Completion from the training center.

Conclusion
This training has further improved my skills in WordPress development and administration. I
will recommend this training for other staff who seek to improve their capacity in this area.

Annexes attached to the Report.


I. Training Materials: Professional WordPress (2nd Edition), Presentation Slides
II. Training Certificate

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