{"id":892,"date":"2017-12-29T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/?p=892"},"modified":"2018-02-25T18:59:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:59:47","slug":"wordpress-beginners-workshop-march-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wordpress-beginners-workshop-march-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Beginner&#8217;s Workshop &#8211; March 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Beginner&#8217;s Workshop\u00a0 has SOLD OUT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dlXUwD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waiting list<\/a> for those who would still like to attend. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-334\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-2017-10-29-22.19.36-1024x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-2017-10-29-22.19.36-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-2017-10-29-22.19.36-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-2017-10-29-22.19.36-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-2017-10-29-22.19.36-500x257.png 500w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-2017-10-29-22.19.36.png 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are new to WordPress, then you want to make sure you attend our beginner&#8217;s workshop. And as our beginner workshops are quite popular, we wanted to share with you some information before tickets go on sale.<\/p>\n<p>Our workshop is happening on March 16th at FIU (<a href=\"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/location\/\">same as our weekend venue<\/a>). Our workshops worked out last year very well and sold out rather quickly. We limit our workshops to about 100 attendees, so make sure you grab your ticket (<a href=\"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/wcmia-slack-channel\/\">follow us on Slack<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wordcampmiami\">on Twitter<\/a> for ticket announcements).<\/p>\n<p>Registration will start at 8am, and a full day\u2019s schedule is planned (9am to 4:30pm).\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Lunch will be provided, so just bring yourself (a laptop or tablet is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, or something to take notes with) and get ready for a full day of getting up to speed with WordPress. After this workshop you&#8217;ll be ready for WordCamp Miami weekend (March 17th and March 18th).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we cover in our beginner workshop (note that this schedule might be adjusted, and if so we&#8217;ll alert all ticket holders).<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Decisions \/ Education<\/strong> (Selecting a domain, what hosting provider might be the best for you, comparing WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Installation and Setup<\/strong> (Guiding through how to install WordPress and giving a tour of the general WordPress admin)<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Getting Started with WordPress<\/strong> (Showcasing every day things that you do in WordPress such as creating and editing posts, pages, categories, tags, etc. Also we go into items like comment moderation)<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>WordPress Themes<\/strong> (Discussion about trusted sources of getting WordPress themes, best practices, widgets, menus, header images, background images, and more)<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Trouble Shooting<\/strong> (Knowledge share on common WordPress problems, troubleshooting, customizing, importing\/exporting, and more)<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Plugins<\/strong> (Best practices for plugins, &#8220;must-have&#8221; plugins, and how to use WordPress beyond a blogging platform)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Our beginner workshops usually sellout,<\/strong> so if you want to learn more about using WordPress or want to review the basic concepts before the WordCamp Miami weekend, <a title=\"Tickets\" href=\"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">then check back soon to get your ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-29-15.24.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"508\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-29-15.24.59.png 880w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-29-15.24.59-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-29-15.24.59-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-29-15.24.59-500x289.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginner&#8217;s Workshop\u00a0 has SOLD OUT There is a waiting list for those who would still like to attend. If you are new to WordPress, then you want to make sure you attend our beginner&#8217;s workshop. And as our beginner workshops are quite popular, we wanted to share with you some information before tickets go on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wordpress-beginners-workshop-march-16th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress Beginner&#8217;s Workshop &#8211; March 16th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9i5nN-eo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}