Freelancing and Digital Entrepreneurship encourages us to embrace self-growth, to update skills, and learning new things. Using WordPress in building a website for the first time will discourage you because the environment looks a little technical. Especially, if you have no inclination to designing web and you have no one to guide you. WordPress is like a maze that has many clickable links. The links will lead you to another window and then not sure which path brings you to your target direction. Those things are enough for you to quit, however, if you want to run your online business effectively, having a little knowledge of WordPress is an advantage.
Imagine WordPress as pathways to a certain place. For you to reach the place you need to familiarize each path. You may use a map or you may take a drive to locate the place. Taking a drive to the location is better than to just look at it on the map. That is what learning by doing mean.
This theory is the basis of the hands-on activities at the school. It is believed that learners will better understand the topics if they perform it. This theory effective to all freelancers and service based providers.
Here are two effective practices in learning WordPress:
- Have an experimental website. Create a website that serves as your laboratory where you can do your experiments. You can use the free plan of WordPress. This is where you are going to apply all the information you gathered from your research on how to create a website using WordPress. For example, if you want to learn how to add a header image on your website then you have to do it on your experimental website to understand.
- Explore and Internalize. Explore all the commands and sub-commands found in the dashboard of WordPress and internalize it. How to internalize? That’s absorbing the result of your every click. For example, if you click the Pages under the Site menu, you have to pause a little, give time to internalize the result of your triggered command. It is like understanding by heart.
Applying these practices in your WordPress study makes you become familiar with the different commands in a shorter range of time. Remember that every time you are going to add a new expertise to your services means a wider coverage of clients.
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