Wordpress Training For Beginners

Course details

• Learn how to build a website with WordPress & understand and use the key features of WordPress
• Explore plugins and themes and how to find and install them
• Discover how to keep your WordPress website secure from hackers and spammers
• Ideal for anyone who wants to create a website, those wanting to learn and master Wordpress, or anyone with an interest in affiliate marketing

Do you want to build a professional looking website, but don’t know where to start? WordPress training for beginners will give you a step-by-step guide to this popular open source publishing software. So whether you’re a technophobe, or a newbie looking to expand on some existing knowledge: this course has it covered.

Our course will kick off with the choosing a domain name, and getting it set up with a web host.

SEO and WordPress expert Andrew Williams, will give you comprehensive tutorials and walkthroughs of key features. Through a series of video and printed guides, he will help you to navigate the dashboard, make the most of the media library, and show you essential tips to keep your website user friendly, and simple to update.

By the end of the course, you will have all the tools you need to create the website you want.

• Introduction To The Course
• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!
• A Quick Note

• The Perfect Domain Name

• The WordPress Dashboard
• Clearing out pre-installed WordPress content
• The WYSIWYG Editor
• The Media Library

• Setting Up A Gravatar
• Author Profile
• Update Services
• Reading Settings
• Discussion Settings
• Permalinks
• Plugins
• Installing Premium Plugins
• Adding A Sitemap
• Wordpress Widgets
• WordPress Themes
• Allowing Comments and Comment Moderation

• Creating A Post Or A Page
• WordPress Posts Vs WordPress Pages
• When You Use A Post And When You Use A Page
• Post Categories
• Wordpress Tags
• The Importance Of Post Excerpts

• The Importance of the Homepage
• Static Homepage Vs Blog Post

• Creating A Contact Page
• Update: Contact Form 7 Captcha
• Creating An About Page
• Terms, Privacy And Disclaimers

• Custom Menus
• Custom Menus Minor Update - CSS
• Top Menu Navigation
• Sidebar Navigation
• Footer Navigation
• Related Post Navigation
• Internal Site Linking
• Social Sharing

• Introduction To WordPress Security
• WordFence
• Stop Spammers
• How To Change Your WordPress Username: Advanced

• Responsive Lightbox
• WP-DB Manager
• Pretty Links Lite

• The 20 Step Plan To Build A WordPress Website

• Setting Up FTP Software To Access Your Web Hosting Space
• WordPress Adds The Twenty Fifteen Theme
• Responsive Website Design

• IMPORTANT: Site Move
• A Little Preliminary Research
• A Note About The Google Keyword Planner
• Creating The Homepage
• A Quick Run Through The Settings… 
• Getting Ready For Posts
• First Posts And Deciding On The Them
• Initial Tweaks To The Template
• Integrating Google Analytics
• Adding Site To Webmaster Tools
• A Change To The Category Page
• Securing The Site
• Adding An Affiliate Product Page
• Linking To The Affiliate Product Page
• Re-Order Posts, Stock Images & A Tweak
• Site Speed - Making It Faster
• Creating A Child Themes
• WordPress Security Update Services