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This is a great opportunity for beginners to learn how to build a website using WordPress. All beginners are advised to not miss this session!

WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) tool and it's by far the simplest, most popular way to create your website or blog.

This explains why WordPress powers more than 30% of all the websites on the internet. That means more than 1 out of 4 websites that you visit are likely powered by WordPress.

This meetup will present a step by step guide on how to create a fully functional website using WordPress within 2 hours.

Additional details:
Prerequisites for building a website
Installing WordPress
Installing themes & plugins (what they are)
Exploring your dashboard and going live.

Facilitator: Gbolade Ogunfowote
Gbolade is an IT professional with experience developing and managing web based applications, maintenance and installation of Fiber Optic Routes, and fabrication of Embedded Systems. He holds a B.Eng in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from Federal University of Technology, Akure. When he is not coding or working on a dev project, he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, reading personal development books, and/or playing with BeeJay (his dog).

Sponsors

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Bluehost
Bluehost makes building, growing, and managing WordPress websites easy!
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Woo
Woo is the leading open-source ecommerce platform, built on WordPress.
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hosting com
Global hosting, community roots, built for what’s next
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Jetpack
Safer, faster WordPress.
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WordPress com
We're a hosted version of the open-source software
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Kinsta
Build with WordPress, grow with Kinsta.

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