WordPress Basics Training

WordPress is the most popular Content Management System or CMS. It allows us to create and manage websites with ease. This training is intended as a customised module to allow Tenni 4 Kids to manage their website after the handover. In this section we will cover the following items:

• WordPress Walkthrough
• Adding a new blog post including categorisation, featured image and SEO tags
• WooCommerce Walkthrough
• Adding a new Variable product

This training module is custom designed for you. You can access it using the details below

URL: https://xava.ietennis-4-kids-training-manual

Username: tennis4kids

Password: already emailed to you

This section covers the following areas:

• A brief introduction to logging in to the WP dashboard
• An quick overview of important areas of the website

Login to the website

WooCommerce is the most popular and trusted e-commerce platform for WP websites.

The Tennis 4 Kids website uses WooCommerce to create camps, programs etc and sell them online. In this section, we will do an overview of the WooCommerce settings to familiarise ourselves with all aspects of the e-commerce functionality.

After the overview, we will look at how T4K website uses WooCommerce to add programs. As an exercise at the end we will add a new event and add it to an existing page on the website.

Points to note in this section:

1. WooCommerce settings

All T4K tennis camps and events are added as “Variable Products” (https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/) in the website.

The variable products have attributes associated with them that allow you to manage pricing and availability separately for each camp or age group. In this section, we will do a quick overview of variable products in WooCommerce.

The homepage banner is built using a plugin called Revolution Slider or Slider Revolution. It is an excellent way of adding rotating images with layers of text to create banners. In this section, we will see how to edit an existing slider to edit the homepage.