Content Management Systems for Content Editors
The four platforms behind most content operations jobs, WordPress, Shopify, HubSpot CMS, and Contentful, taught for people who manage sites rather than build them.
There is a whole category of tech jobs that almost nobody talks about, because they do not involve writing code. Somebody has to keep the company website updated: publish the posts, swap the homepage banner, fix the product descriptions, build the landing page marketing needs by Friday. That person works inside a CMS all day, and companies hire for it constantly under titles like content editor, web producer, and web administrator.
This course trains you for that job on the four platforms most of those postings actually name.
The four platforms
WordPress comes first because it still runs a huge share of the web, and it is the CMS you are most likely to inherit at any company. Then Shopify, where you create a partner account and a development store and learn to run store content the way e-commerce teams expect. HubSpot CMS Hub covers the marketing-led companies that live inside HubSpot for everything. Contentful closes the platform tour with the headless model, where content lives separately from the site that displays it, which is how newer engineering-heavy companies increasingly work.
The course starts before any of that with the role itself: what a content editor does day to day, the types of CMS you will encounter, and, unusually for a tech course, how to find these jobs, taught near the beginning rather than saved for the end.
Getting hired
The final section is practical: building a content editor portfolio and a resume aimed at these titles. A portfolio matters more than people expect in this field, because "I can manage a CMS" is easy to claim and easy to prove, and almost nobody bothers to prove it.
Web administrator roles in the US typically pay $60,000 to $90,000, which is a serious salary for a job with no coding requirement and a short learning curve. This course is the core of the Web Administrator career path, which adds the surrounding skills and portfolio projects. If you are still choosing your platform focus, the best CMS platforms to learn breaks down the job market for each.
What you'll learn
- ✓ Understand what a content editor actually does and where the role sits in a company
- ✓ Manage content in WordPress, still the most common CMS you will meet on the job
- ✓ Set up a Shopify partner account and dev store, and run store content like a pro
- ✓ Work inside HubSpot CMS Hub, the platform of choice for marketing-led companies
- ✓ Get productive in Contentful and understand how headless CMS work differs
- ✓ Build a content editor portfolio and resume that get interviews
Course Curriculum
7 sections
1
Introduction
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2
Wordpress
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3
Shopify
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4
HubSpot CMS Hub
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5
Contentful
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6
Tools & Resources
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7
Preparing For Getting Hired
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Before you start
- ✓ None. This is a no-code path into tech; you never write a line of code in this course
