WordPress appears in Ghanaian adverts for communications officers, social media officers, IT officers and web developers. Often the job is not building a site from nothing but looking after one: adding news, updating pages, installing a plugin, keeping things updated. Those are learnable without code, and they make you useful to many organisations.
Two ways to get WordPress
- WordPress software (from WordPress.org): open source software that you install on hosting you rent. You control everything, and you are responsible for updates and backups.
- Hosted WordPress (such as WordPress.com): a company runs the software for you. Less to manage, but some features depend on the plan.
Both use the same dashboard ideas, so the skills transfer.
Practise without hosting
WordPress Playground runs WordPress inside your browser with no hosting needed. It is a good place to explore the dashboard, try themes and break things safely. Treat it as a practice space and check whether your work is kept before you rely on it.
The core ideas
Pages and posts. Pages are for content that rarely changes, such as About, Services and Contact. Posts are dated entries shown newest first, such as news, project updates or a blog. Posts can have categories and tags; pages usually sit in the menu.
The block editor. Content is built from blocks: a paragraph, a heading, an image, a button, a list. You add a block, type or choose content, and move it up or down.