Learn to Hack from Scratch: WordPress for Non-Geeks
Location: Riverside Ballroom
Take your hacking skills “from zero to hero” by learning to install and modify WordPress, a simple yet powerful blogging tool which underlies nearly 80% of blogs. This hands-on workshop will teach you not only WordPress basics to get you up and running with a blog or website of your own, it will also provide an essential web technology orientation for non-geeks. (Bring a laptop!) So whether you’re looking to start a blog or hoping to be more conversant with the web developers in your organization, this workshop is for you.
Participants will be a given a free year of hosting for the blogs they create during the session, and they’ll learn:
- How to install Wordpress
- How to install and assess Wordpress plugins
- How to install and modify themes
- The basic concepts of the server
- The basic concepts of the database
- The basic concepts behind HTML, CSS, and PHP (the code behind Wordpress)
- Where you can go from here!
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Had lots of potential, but got dragged down by all the setup of a hands-on workshop despite their best intentions to be prepared.
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