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This book is a pre-release editing of a book for students that was originally made for students who have previously attended Workshops with Dorcas.

This book is aimed at WordPress beginners, not professional website developers, and covers the basics that you need to know when creating your first WordPress website. The free theme, Virtue, has a special section in this book.

Important: This version has been released early and free, especially for Masters students at the UCD Smurfit School. As such, while the information is correct, there may be some layout ugliness and grammatical errors in this book.

Topics Include:

- Recommended Themes

- Creating/Editing Pages

- Blogging and Categories

- Links to recommended sites with free images

- Adding Pictures (while thinking about SEO)

- Embedding (including Google maps and YouTube videos)

- Creating Menus and Adding links to the Navigation Menu

- Users and Admin access

- Recommended Plugins (e.g. Social Media Sharing)

- Intro to WooCommerce (best E-Commerce plugin)

- Backing up your WordPress website