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 (1:20)
- Introduction to Social Media, Podcasts, HTTPS, and SSL (0:32)
- Integrating Social Media (3:17)
- Adding Social Media Live Feeds (4:19)
- Adding Social Media Icons (2:17)
- Adjusting Social Media Icons (2:28)
- Adjusting Social Block Settings and Styles (2:15)
- Creating and Managing Reusable Blocks (3:36)
- Adding Additional Reusable Blocks (2:00)
- Editing Widgets (2:55)
- Activating Themes with Social Menus (2:28)
- Creating Social Menus (5:57)
- Customizing Sidebars (5:51)
- Introduction to Podcasts (1:30)
- Creating and Connecting Anchor Accounts (2:58)
- Creating New Posts for Text-to-Speech Conversions (4:32)
- Importing New Posts Into Anchor and Enabling Text-to-Speech (5:12)
- Adding Podcast Player (2:32)
- Adding More Podcast Posts (4:32)
- Creating Additional Podcasts (1:07)
- Introduction to HTTPS and SSL (2:58)
- Checking Your Site for HTTPS (1:31)
- Viewing Site Health Recommendations (5:55)
- Launching Your Site (1:38)
- Using Jetpack to Automate Posts and Social Media (4:08)
- Social Media, Podcasts, HTTPS, and SSL Recap (5:13)
- Introduction to Non-Blog Websites (0:34)
- Maintenance Mode (6:19)
- Exporting and Backing Up Site Contents (2:31)
- Website Basics (1:08)
- Static vs Dynamic vs Hybrid Websites (5:34)
- Files for Business Website (1:54)
- Uploading Images for Business Website (4:59)
- Alt Text (1:52)
- Mission Statement Page (4:03)
- Home Page and Theme (2:53)
- Adding Additional Pages (4:00)
- Adding and Adjusting Text (2:00)
- Pages and Galleries (3:18)
- Bulleted Lists (0:43)
- Customizing Site (12:06)
- Adding Page Blocks (2:23)
- Consulting Services Page (5:37)
- Changing Menu Order (1:40)
- Contact Forms (17:47)
- Embedding Contact Forms (3:23)
- Adding Images to Pages (4:10)
- Subpages (6:19)
- Introduction to One-Page Websites (3:15)
- Setting Up Slideshows (7:38)
- Embedding Forms, Adding Blocks, and Customizing (7:29)
- Non-Blog Websites Recap (3:34)
- Conclusion (0:12)