WordPress is a free and open-source content management system that allows users to create their own blogs on various topics. It has a plugin architecture and template system. Freelancers Academy provides WordPress training to help students learn skills and get freelance work opportunities in areas like SEO, themes, plugins, and content management. Their hands-on training approach and assistance with finding projects helps newcomers learn effectively and work in the WordPress environment.

1. What isWordPress ?
• Today is the epoch of sharing thoughts, emotions and feeling with friends, relatives
and even strangers. In earlier times people wanted to keep their lives and thoughts
private and confidential.
• They preferred their lives being closed books unknown and hidden from everyone.
But today world is evolving. People are comfortable opening up their inner most
feelings and emotions in front of everyone.
• The rise in number of networking sites and forums are example of this. A new
platform called blogs has taken the market by storm. A blog is a personalised space
which is your own and you can design and utilise it as per your requirement.
• WordPress is one such websites which allows people to start their own blogs on
anything and everything.
• WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on
PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.

2. WordPress Course Syllabus
• Understand the foundations of a WordPress-
based website
• Understand the basics of the WordPress User
Interface
• Find and use WordPress Plugins
• Work with WordPress Themes
• Understand WordPress Content Management
• Use WordPress Search Engine Optimization
(SEO)
• Manage Multimedia with WordPress
• Troubleshoot Common WordPress Problems
• All About Themes
• Finding and Using Plugins
• Maintaining WordPress
• Creating and Managing Content with WordPress
• Organizing the Content on Your Blog
• How WordPress.com Is Different Than
WordPress.org
• Configuring WordPress to Work Its Best
• Getting Around WordPress
• Monetizing Wordpress using AdSense

3. Significance of WordPress
• WordPress was first introduced in 2003 by a bunch of personnel providing a podium for writers to share their
work. Within a period of little more than a decade, this space is being used by hundreds of people throughout
the world.
• This platform is an open source and is free for anyone who is interested to work on it. There are numerous
tools and techniques inbuilt to personalise, beautiful and enhance the blog. There are no restrictions of what
should be included and what not.
• You can form a blog for beauty, pet care, science and technology or any other topic which you feel is
significant and of public interest. If accepted by public, your blog may even help you earn money, a lot of
money indeed.
• Every person cannot write down a book or can get a chance to write a column in newspaper or magazines.
Blog helps people to share their thoughts and brings likeminded people together.
• Blogs also is used for social causes and bringing about awareness on number of topics. It is aptly said that
“Pen is mightier than sword” and blog is the pen for the new generation of writers and authors.

4. Advantages of Wordpress
• Some of the advantages provided by WordPress include:
• Simplicity
• Flexibility
• Easy to publish work
• Search engine optimisation
• Easy installation and upgrades
• Multilingual
• Freedom of expression
• User management and many more.
• Due to these features WordPress is producing 61.8 million new posts and 55.4
million new comments and is read by 409 million people per month (as per
WordPress statistics) making it one of the top blogging site.

5. Learning WordPress at home?
• Freelancer Academy guides the people working in WordPress in a proper
direction.
• Every website has its own set of plugins, themes and operation mechanism. Any
newcomer may face difficultly in working in online forums.
• Freelancer Academy helps the newcomers to understand the working processes
with relevant course material, demo classes and consultancy. In certain cases
assistance to get work can also be provided.
• The faculty are friendly and understand the points where a person needs help.
• This initiative has enabled number of people to work effectively in WordPress
environment without facing any adverse situation

6. Freelancers Academy helping students Learn and Earn

7. Freelancers Academy helping students Learn and Earn
• Freelancers Academy is not your usual Digital Marketing training institute. We at
Freelancers Academy help students get exposure to live projects.
• We also ensure our students can get freelancing opportunities in module that
they are most comfortable in.
• Today Freelancing is a multi billion dollar industry. It is estimated that by 2020
nearly 40 percent of the population would be freelancing.