
About Course
- Install WordPress on your PC or Mac computer, so you can learn without having to pay hosting or domain fees.
- Navigate around the WordPress dashboard, know what everything does and how to use it.
- Create pages and posts, and most importantly, know the difference between the two.
- Correctly use post categories and tags, and understand why these can cause you problems at the search engines if used incorrectly.
- Understand plugins & themes and how to find/install them
- Create a static homepage useful for most websites, or a blog like homepage useful for bloggers.
- This course will teach anyone to build a functional, beautiful, responsive website with WordPress.
- Understand the main features of WordPress
- Create custom menus and navigation systems that both visitors and search engines will find useful.
- Know how to configure WordPress for best results
- Protect their WordPress website from hackers and spammers
- Create a Responsive Website that looks good on any browser
Course Content
Introduction WordPress
Wordpress for Beginners will teach you how to use Wordpress to create professional looking sites, quickly and easily.
Introduction to the course
Congratulations on making the decision to learn Wordpress. This introductory video will explain who I am, and why Wordpress is such a great platform to use for building a website.
Local Install – Install WordPress on your Computer
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IMPORTANT: Please Read this FIRST
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Local Install Issues
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Local By Flywheel
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Other Options
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Local By Flywheel Quiz
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Installing WordPress on a web host
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IMPORTANT: Please Read this FIRST
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Finding the domain
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Installing WordPress on a Web Host
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Web Host Install
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A first look around WordPress
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IMPORTANT: Please read
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Switching Themes
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The WordPress Dashboard
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Clearing out WordPress pre-installed content
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Post & Page Editor(s)
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A Look at the WYSIWYG “Classic” Editor
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The Gutenberg Editor
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The Media Library
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The WordPress Dashboard
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The Gutenberg Editor
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About Animations
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Gutenberg Overview
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The Interface
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Anatomy of a Block
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Adding Blocks to Build a Post
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Inserting Images & Wrap
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Cover Block
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Columns
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Reusable Blocks
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Finding More Blocks
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Gutenberg FAQ
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Gutenberg
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WordPress Settings
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Setting up a Gravatar
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Author Profile
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General Settings
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Writing Settings
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Update Services
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Reading Settings
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Discussion Settings
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Allowing Comments & Comment Moderation
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Permalinks
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Privacy Settings
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Theme, Plugins, Widgets
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Responsive Website Design?
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WordPress Themes
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Plugins & Adding a Sitemap
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Installing Premium Plugins
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WordPress Widgets
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Settings, plugins and themes
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Website cpntent with posts & pages
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WordPress Posts v WordPress Pages
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WordPress “Pages”
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WordPress “Posts”
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Post Categories
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Post Tags
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Categories & Tags Summary
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Importance of Excerpts
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Importance of Featured Images
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How to schedule a post
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Resizing & Optimizing Images
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Creating a WordPress Page
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Creating a WordPress post
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Page or Post?
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Posts and Pages
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The Homepage
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The importance of the homepage
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Static Homepage v Blog Posts
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Creating A Blog Style Homepage
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Creating A Static Style Homepage
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The Homepage
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Creating the Legal Pages
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Creating a Contact page
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Creating an About Us page
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Terms, Privacy and Disclaimers
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Website Navigation
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Custom Menus
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Navigation Menu Widgets
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Related Post Navigation
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Latest Posts
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Internal Site Linking
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Website Navigation
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WordPress Security
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WARNING: Read before you continue
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WordPress Security
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What to do if the security plugin locks you out
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All In One Security Plugin
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Stop Spammers Plugin
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WordPress Backup
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How to change your WordPress Author Page Name
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Security
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Some Important Plugin
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Social Sharing
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Responsive LIghtbox
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Pretty links Lite
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WordPress Site Structure
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Site Structure Options
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The WordPress Set Up Process
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Importing Demo Content
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Please Read
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Creating A Blog Site
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Creating A Blog with Blog Homepage
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Changing the Homepage to Static
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Creating the Business Site
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Creating a Business Site
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Business Site Navigation
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Creating the Hybrid Site
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Creating the Hybrid Site Structure
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Hybrid Site Navigation
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Site Structure
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