Taking over a WordPress site you didn't build yourself

We talk to lots of people who take on a new marketing role in their organisation and suddenly find themselves responsible for a website that they know nothing about. If this is you then watch this webinar to learn about a structured approach to getting to grips with an unfamiliar WordPress site.

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We tend to work with two groups of customers – either people who are building a brand new WordPress site themselves or people who have taken over responsibility for an existing WordPress site that someone else built. If you’re in this second group then this webinar is for you.

Taking over the management of an established WordPress site can be a tricky business, particularly if the developers or agency responsible for building it aren’t on the scene any more. We talk to lots of people who take on a new marketing role in their organisation and suddenly find themselves responsible for a website that they know nothing about. If this is you then watch this webinar to learn about a structured approach to getting to grips with an unfamiliar WordPress site.

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What you'll learn on this webinar

In just one hour we will cover:

Security, hosting and backups
- Making sure that the site’s secure and only those who need it have access
- Ensuring you have access to the hosting and the domain
- Checking that the site is backed up regularly and installing a backup plugin if you need one
Getting to grips with the site appearance
- Understanding whether the site’s running with a free or premium theme
- Understanding how the theme is controlling the appearance of the pages
- Getting to grips with any bespoke code there may be on the site
- Knowing how the pages are created and whether they’re controlled by a page by a page builder or not
Understanding the structure of the site
- Understanding how the navigation works and how to add and remove items from the menu
- Identifying different types of content on the site and how each is generated
Understanding the functionality of the site
- Looking at the pages to see what functionality there is
- Going through the plugins and understanding what each one does
- Checking that the site functionality actually works in the way that it’s supposed to
Identifying compliance and performance issues
- Ensuring that the site is GDPR compliant
- Checking for issues with site speed
- Identifying broken links and other errors on the site
- Ensuring any third party integrations are working as they should
Search performance
- How to know whether Google Analytics is running on the site
- The importance of Google Analytics and Google Search Console
- Are there any SEO plugins running on the site?

Who should watch this webinar?

This webinar is aimed at anyone who is responsible for a WordPress site that they didn’t build themselves and would benefit from a clear checklist of things to consider when getting to grips with the site.

Why Awesome Tech Training?

We are Rachel, Steve and Lorna - three friends who have worked together on and off for more than 25 years. Each of us has (many!) years of experience in different aspects of digital marketing and web development.

We’ve always enjoyed working together and in 2019 we decided to formalise this arrangement and so we set up Awesome Tech Training. Rachel is based in the UK home counties, whilst Lorna and Steve are based near Dundalk in Ireland.

Over the past few years we’ve build a range of webinars and other training courses firmly based on our own experiences of marketing, sales and web development in the real world.

We’ve been at this for a while, so we know what the pitfalls are, what can go wrong, what the most common problems are and how to address them!

We try and bring this real world, practical approach into everything that we do – offering webinar attendees and other clients the benefit of our own experience to apply to their specific circumstances.

Our clients tend to be small businesses who don’t have the resource to outsource their whole marketing operation and want to be able to take control of it themselves.

Our training is designed to be affordable, practically focused and results oriented so you can start putting what you’ve learned into practice immediately and get quick results.

More than 5,000 people have come on our webinars – see what our customers say about us here.

What's included?

You can register to join this webinar on one of the dates that we run it live, or you can opt for instant access to the on demand version which gives you access to a recording of this webinar the last time it was delivered live. Every time we deliver it live we update the on demand version so you'll always have access to the very latest version.

The recording includes the Q&A session at the end of the live webinar and you also get a downloadable copy of the slides for your reference.

If you'd like to ask us questions or get help with anything you can book a free half hour 'clinic' session with us and talk to us live or ask questions via email.

Anyone who signs up for the live version also gets access to the on demand version immediately after the webinar has run.

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What people say about our webinars

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Helen Tilley

Another brilliant webinar, so much useful information, tips and hints. I'm so pleased you record too, so I can go back to things I missed! This is normally a lot as I get so inspired to go off on tangents to look into all the useful things! Or it triggers me to think of other considerations for my business. For someone who can be a bit overwhelmed by the enormity of the digital world, Awesome Tech Training help make things much simpler and easy to understand and apply, particularly as a small and start up business. Many thanks and I look forward to upcoming webinars!

Steph Kirk

I've been on 4 webinars now and these guys really know their stuff. I have thrown some curveball questions, and some that tip a little bit out of the remit of the course, and they have still answered clearly and helpfully. They've really helped me to improve not only my website but my ad campaigns as well. I am yet to try their free half hour 1-1 but I am happy it's something I have at my disposal when I have my thoughts in order!

Colin Stewart

One of the most useful training webinars I have attended. Very clear and easy to understand. And actually contains useful information! Rare these days. Thank you.

Liezl de Wouters d'Oplinter

Attended a webinar with them and WOW! I learnt so many valuable things that is not normally the case with free sessions. Really informative with high quality actions and suggestions with a lot of free resources as well. Will definitely keep a look out for other events from them.

Rowena Vaughan

Excellent, clear and informative webinar. I would recommend start ups and mature businesses watch this. Very useful.

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