Who it's for: Anyone new to WordPress or looking for a comprehensive refresher.
What it is: WordPress may have started as a simple blogging tool, but in it’s 20+ years of existence, it’s grown into one of the most popular web content management systems in the world, used to create some of your favorite websites, forums, and online stores.
What you'll learn: Our WordPress series will provide you with a foundational, yet thorough, understanding of the popular web creation platform, including the dashboard, themes, plugins, SEO, blogging, and so much more. In this 4-part course, you’ll learn how to launch your website quickly with the help of a quick WordPress installation guide, create a quality website with a proper assembly of important subpages, install and work with plugins and widgets, install and create attractive themes for your website, create custom menus to improve the user experience of your website, and upload multimedia content such as images, audio, and video easily and effectively. Later on, we’ll jump into backup and recovery options, security features, making your website mobile-ready, e-commerce, and a slew of other topics.
- Introduction (1:15)
- Introduction to Media, Importing, and Exporting (0:53)
- Hyperlinks (5:02)
- All Pages Overview (3:45)
- WordPress Media Types (1:03)
- Adding Images (2:03)
- Image Alt Text and Captions (3:30)
- Featured Images (2:28)
- Image Galleries and Single Images (4:17)
- Downloading Images with Openverse (3:38)
- Adding Images to Media Library (2:44)
- Image Editing Options in Media Library (3:05)
- Adding Images to Categories (5:10)
- Creating Category Pages via Secondary Menu (7:31)
- Introduction to Importing and Exporting Content (3:58)
- Exporting and Deleting Posts (2:09)
- Importing Posts (2:58)
- Media, Importing, and Exporting Recap (2:15)
- Introduction to Plugins and Site Publishing (0:40)
- What are Plugins? (0:44)
- Activating Anti-Spam Plugins (3:51)
- Activating SEO Plugins (7:23)
- Our Must-Have Pack of Plugins (7:03)
- Installing and Configuring UpdraftPlus Plugin (5:14)
- Publishing Your Site (5:53)
- Plugins Recap (1:18)
- Conclusion (2:19)