Author Training
Mercer’s Digital Communications team provides training for faculty and staff responsible for maintaining a Mercer website.
The digital communications team works with a college, school, department or organization to help construct an initial version of their website in WordPress. One or more persons will be identified as web authors.
Training sessions are conducted virtually in a one-on-one format. The trainer will ask the person to share a computer screen. Together, they will cover a series of topics and exercises. The goal is to give the new web author hands-on experience with WordPress and their new website.
Training Session Requirements
- Access to a computer with a web camera, microphone, internet connection and Zoom installed
- Familiarity with using Zoom
- Familiarity with using a web browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc.)
- A quiet location where you can talk and interact without interruption
- WordPress Quick Start Guide (please review the guide in advance of the training session)
Basic Topics
During the basic WordPress training session, authors will learn how to:
- Log in to your website
- Use the WordPress dashboard
- Edit an existing web page
- Create a new web page
- Select or change a template
- Configure the hero section
- Add modules to a page
- Add media (images, documents, etc.) to a module
- Manage the website’s menu
- and more…
Advanced Topics
Training sessions on advanced topics are also available and include:
- Identifying and utilizing other modules
- Creating forms
- Managing form data
- Adding redirects to your site
- Learning short codes