On November 2nd, I held another workshop in Novi Sad. This is part three of the entire WordPress Workshops series in Novi Sad.
During the workshop, we went through creating a WordPress website manually by using MAMP or WAMP and then migrating the entire site to a hosting provider.
After the workshop, I recorded a video of the entire process which you can find below:
During the 2nd WordPress Workshop in Novi Sad (here’s the link to the first one #), the attendees worked on completing the remaining tasks I prepared for mastering WordPress.com site creation. The videos of the solutions can be found here.
We also dipped our toes into installing the WordPress.org software locally by using Local by Flywheel.
I recorded a short video of the entire process:
For the next workshop, we’ll dive deeper into installing WordPress locally and we’ll also install WordPress on a host via cPanel – I’m still checking which hosting provider we should use 😀
On Saturday, we had our first WordPress workshop in the Startit Center of Novi Sad. The workshops were conducted in 3 groups of ~30 people and each group had a dedicated time slot of 2 hours. We managed to cover several topics:
I shared the story of WordPress beginnings, B2/cafelog, and the post that started it all. I spoke about Matt Mullenweg, Mike Little, GPL, and how a few dedicated people devoted to the same cause can make great things happen.
We also covered the differences between Automattic’s WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
I guided the attendees through the process of creating a WordPress.com account and afterward, I demonstrated how to create a site from scratch by using different WordPress editors, Gutenberg blocks, and Customizer options. Afterward, the attendees worked on a few exercises I previously created and they launched their shiny new sites.
After the workshops, several people approached me and they mentioned it would be super cool to have a video of the whole process I used when I created a WordPress.com site from scratch.
So, here’s the video 🙂
I’d also like to highlight one of the workshop attendees, Relja, who published the details of both the initial talk and the first workshop on his website!
The WordPress Workshops in Novi Sad kicked off on Saturday, September 28th. I was overwhelmed by the number of people that showed up 🙂 I expected 15-25 people total but 170 signed up and around 120 showed up at the intro talk this Saturday.
During the intro talk, I shared my WordPress story with the attendees and I gave a short overview of all the areas which will be covered during the workshops. Afterwards, we worked on creating Slack accounts on the official WordPress Serbia Slack which we’ll use for further communication. There will be three groups created and the workshops will be conducted in two-hour timeslots for each group. The workshops as a whole will last for seven Saturdays during the course of three months.
I’ll be uploading the workshops material after each class on both my website (in English) and on Startit.rs (in Serbian).
I am pleased to announce that I’ll be holding WordPress workshops in the Startit Center in Novi Sad starting from September 28th. The workshops will last for 3 months and they will introduce the attendees to the wide array of WordPress topics. The workshops will be conducted in Serbian and everyone is welcome to attend them – no previous knowledge is required but it’s necessary to register.
For more details and the registration form, make sure to check the original announcement post and the Facebook event!
I hope the attendees will find this workshop useful! I’ll give my best to publish the content of each workshop session on my blog so that the workshop material is available for everyone. And after the first 3 months, I’ll revisit the whole idea, and see how I can improve it. Cheers 🙂
