Creating a Wordpress Website from beginner to advanced
This class is comprehensive and the topics included but not limited to are:
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This class is comprehensive and the topics included but not limited to are:
This class is comprehensive and the topics included but not limited to are:
installing wordpress from your control panel and configuring it
finding , installing and activating a theme
finding, installing and activating the wordpress "must-have" plugins
finding free header images and manipulating them with a free online editor that is just like Photoshop
adding functionality to your website such as : menus, widgets, youtube videos, your Facebook page feed, a contact form, calendar , google analytics
search engine optimization specific to wordpress
and more.....
NEW SECTION ADDED I just added a new section. TWENTY new lectures on how to use the Worpdress Gutenberg Editor.
Why Wordpress?
Wordpress is widely used across the internet and it is free. It takes 5 minutes or less to install. There are over 3,000+ free themes. There are 45,800 free plugins so you can get your website to do whatever you want. It's easy to add functionality and engagement using a wide variety of plugins.
Hop on board now and I will see you in the first lesson.
What's inside
Learning objective
Syllabus
Introduction
Introduction and building a foundation
What are your website goals?
Writing Your Website Goals
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Syllabus
Test your understanding of the domain lessons by taking this quiz.
Steps in setting up your wordpress website.
Searching, and installing your wordpress theme.
Finding, installing and activating the "must-have" wordpress plugins.
Finding, installing and activating the "must-have" wordpress plugins part 2.
Google is a great place to find free images for your website. This lesson shows you how.
Adding a header image to your website including how to crop your image using a free image editor that is just like Photoshop.
Adding widgets to your website, which ones and how to.
How to add the special front page widgets to your website.
Takes you through the steps of how to add your Facebook page to your website.
What is Mailchimp and how to add a signup form to your website so visitors can sign up for a newsletter.
How t create a website from a more advanced Wordpress theme.
Creating a 4-5 image slider for your website.
How to add the advanced front page widgets to your website.
How to add a "read more" button to your slider images and integrating your website pages with your slider.
Directions on how to integrate Google Analytics to your website
Just a refresher about the basics of Wordpress before going into how to use the Gutenberg Editor
A bit of a refresher about the main components of Wordpress before going into how to use the Gutenberg Editor.
It is extremely important to know how to backup your Wordpress website. This lecture tells you how.
Wordpress upgrades their version continually so it is essential that you know how t upgrade the version you are using .
There are many Wordpress themes out there. This lecture will talk about how to find a compatible theme.
If you don't a compatible theme you can use the default theme. This short lecture tells you how.
This lecture reviews the basic layout of the Gutenberg Editor and its components.
This lecture continues to review the basic layout of the Gutenberg Editor and its components.
This lecture shows you how to add blocks using the Gutenberg Editor to your pages or posts.
This lecture will show you how to customize blocks on your page or posts using the Gutenberg Editor.
This lecture shows you how to manipulate blocks in your page or posts using the Gutenberg Editor.
This lecture continues to show you how to manipulate blocks in your page or posts using the Gutenberg Editor.
This lecture shows you how to add and customize text on your page or post using the Gutenberg editor.
This lecture shows you how to successfully add images to your page or posts using the Gutenberg editor.
This lecture shows you how to add lists to your pages or posts using the Gutenberg editor.
This lecture shows you how to add videos to your pages or posts using the Gutenberg Editor.
How to add audio files to your page or post using the Gutenberg editor.
How to add image overlays to your page or post using the Gutenberg editor.
This is the final video in this section on the Gutenberg editor and is a wrap up to this basic, beginner series on how to use the Gutenberg editor in Wordpress.
Presents the three most important factors for top search engine placement.
This lesson covers permalink structure, www vs. non-www, stop words, SSL or not and testing your SSL certificate.
Optimizing the title and description tags for your web site pages.
How to confirmWorpdress is using the <H1></H1> headings tags on the pages of your website.
Why adding XML, HTML and Image sitemaps are important to (SEO) Search Engine Optimization.
How to optimize your images for top search engine placement.
What is Breadcrumbs, how and why add them to your website.
How to improve and test your website speed.
A SEO checklist for your website or blog
Some tips on how to start marketing your website. This video is from another class but it does apply to websites as well.
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