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Website Training Guide
Giving you the skills & knowledge you need to update your website
We’re so glad you worked with us to create your website, and want to support you as we hand your site over to you. In this guide, you’ll learn how to make updates to your website while maintaining your new design. We recommend reading & watching through this full guide before your first time making updates to the website. Keep this guide on hand so you can reference it when making future edits—you can use the Guide Navigation to skip to the section you need to refresh.
As always, we’re here to help if you get stuck. If you can’t find the help you need in this guide, feel free to send us a support request using the Get Support button in the Guide Navigation.
Introduction
Start here if this is your first time using this guide or if you are relatively new to WordPress. This video is an introduction to WordPress core functionality as they pertain to editing content and creating new pages. Consider this a quick overview.
Topics:
WordPress UI
Dashboard
Admin Menu
Global Settings
Posts – Creation & editing
One of WordPress’s default content types is a ‘post’. In this video we introduce how to create new posts and how to edit and publish posts. You will learn basic content editing, how categories work, and post status’s.
Topics:
Posts
Categories
Publish vs Draft
Post Dates
Pages – Creation & editing
Another default content type, one utilized by every WordPress site, is ‘pages’. Pages represent the main structure of your website and are arguably the most important part of managing your content. You will learn how to create pages, edit content, organize URL structure, and adjust page options.
Topics:
Pages
Nested Pages
URL Structure
Publishing
Intro to the Block Editor
Taking content editing a bit further, the WordPress block editor is used to arrange content on a page (or any post type for that matter). It functions similar to tools like Word or Google Docs but with some unique layout capabilities and some additional great functionality added by Sonder.
Topics:
Patterns
Block types
Advanced Block Editor concepts
This video takes the block editor to a whole new level. Sonder has added many utilities and classes that enable you to have full control over the look and feel of your page. We will introduce you to some of these advanced concepts in this video so you feel confident and do more with your editing.
Introduction
Start here if this is your first time using this guide. This video is an introduction to WordPress core functionality as they pertain to editing content and creating new pages. Consider this a quick overview.
Introduction
Start here if this is your first time using this guide. This video is an introduction to WordPress core functionality as they pertain to editing content and creating new pages. Consider this a quick overview.