New users don’t get the benefit of WordPress—you can easily update it yourself—if they don’t know how the software works, so I usually include an hour of hands-on WordPress orientation and training along with the website. I just finished working with a newbie—she was familiar with online editing, but that’s about all. Here’s what we were able to cover in an hour:
- Logging on
- Creating a new user profile
- The difference between pages and posts
- Categories
- How to create and edit a page
- How to create and edit a post
- The “Visit Site” and “Edit Post” buttons
- “Draft” and “Publish” status
- Pre- and post-dating entries
- How to upload a photo, adjust the size, add vertical and horizontal space around it, add a caption, and right- or left-justify the image.
- How to add a link
- Using blogrolls
