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 (2:15)
- Introduction to WordPress Basics (1:07)
- WordPress Common Terms (4:27)
- Why WordPress (1:05)
- The WordPress Family (1:52)
- WordPress Core Features (3:55)
- Learning More with Online Resources (4:52)
- Staying Updated with WordPress News (3:52)
- Understanding the Codex (1:55)
- Getting Support from Other Users (2:31)
- Theme and Plugin Directories (1:11)
- WordPress Basics Recap (1:36)
- Introduction to Setting Up WordPress (0:56)
- WordPress.com vs WordPress.org (1:19)
- Getting and Installing WordPress (1:46)
- Hosting Step by Step with Bluehost (6:51)
- Accessing Site Directories via Hosting Provider (4:10)
- WP-Admin and Top Toolbar (6:04)
- Side Toolbar (10:31)
- Gravatars (3:19)
- User Roles (3:13)
- Adding Users (1:18)
- Setting Up WordPress Recap (1:21)
- Introduction to Pages, Posts, and Categories (0:52)
- WordPress Admin Conventions (1:13)
- Changing Site Titles and Taglines (1:50)
- Themes (7:16)
- Viewing All Pages and Modifying Page Titles (2:38)
- Adding and Modifying Pages (3:26)
- Page Editor (5:50)
- Using Content Blocks (4:19)
- Creating Posts (4:10)
- Customizing Themes (7:27)
- Creating Blog Posts with Headings (2:50)
- Comments (3:27)
- Categories vs Tags (1:15)
- Creating Categories and Category Hierarchies (5:59)
- Assigning Categories to Posts (2:58)
- Pages, Posts, and Categories Recap (1:31)
- Conclusion (2:49)