
Discover WordPress basics for building websites. Navigate the admin dashboard, settings, and key tools like Astra, Elementor, WooCommerce, Rank Math, SiteGround hosting, and performance tuning.
Explore WordPress.org, the open source platform offering full code ownership, portable hosting, and extensive extensibility through plugins, with strong SEO benefits and opportunities for freelancers and developers.
Explore hosting WordPress on SiteGround, create a new WordPress site with a temporary domain, configure SSL, backups, caching, and staging, and learn domain and email management.
Explore backend hosting components and tools for WordPress, including domain setup with name servers or DNS, SSL, backups, staging, FTP access, and database management.
Explore the WordPress admin console and learn to manage plugins, themes, posts, media, pages, and users. Implement best practices for updates and security to optimize site performance.
Explore WordPress settings in the dashboard, including site title and tagline, admin email, permalink structure, and privacy. Learn password resets, role settings, and moderation tips for a vanilla WordPress install.
Install and configure the Astra theme on WordPress, then standardize on a few fast themes and use starter templates with Elementor to accelerate site builds.
Discover how to install and manage WordPress plugins from the dashboard, balance functionality with performance and security, verify updates, and use best practices for compatibility and maintenance.
Learn to use Elementor, a popular WordPress visual builder, to create pages easily with free and pro options, manage headers and footers, and build responsive layouts.
Enable e-commerce on WordPress with the free WooCommerce plugin and a payment processor like Stripe or PayPal. Build and manage products, orders, and pages like cart, checkout, and my account.
42% of the web uses WordPress. It's the most popular CMS ever.
If you're not learning to build WP sites, you're missing the largest market of customers waiting to pay you to launch and maintain websites.
This course will teach you how to tap into this huge market.
Why you need this course
WordPress is the most popular CMS platform on the internet.
Web design agencies and clients love WordPress is due to its flexibility, scalability, SEO benefits, and ease of use. Our agency, Clio Websites, has been making WordPress websites for years and the demand is insatiable.
Who is this for?
This course is for web development beginners, looking to learn how to create and launch WordPress websites. You don't need any past experience with WordPress or any programming languages to complete this course.
It will teach you how to create websites for freelancing clients, or for personal projects.
This course will also teach you how to set up a hosting environment, and tune your website for better SEO performance and results.
Course Curriculum
This five-hour course will cover the following topics:
Introduction to WordPress
Introduction to hosting on SiteGround
Introduction to backend hosting components / tools
Working with the WordPress Admin Dashboard
Exploring WordPress Settings
Installing and configuring a Theme (Astra)
Installing and configuring Plugins
Working with web builders - Elementor
Enabling eCommerce functionality using WooCommerce
SEO Basics using Rank Math
Performance tuning basics