WordPress for Beginner Build Your WordPress Site and Blog

Name: WordPress for Beginner Build Your WordPress Site and Blog
Rating: 4.6 (4 reviews)

Step by Step Guide to Getting Your Blog Ready, No Technical Background Required

Created byAnil Batra

Last updated 3/2024

English

What you'll learn

How to setup WordPress Blog
Add Analytics Tracking to the blog
Give the desired look and feel to the blog
Understand difference between pages and post
Setup Email Signups
Understand various plugins
Setup Search

Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 5m total length

Selecting a Domain Name for your Blog9:31
Choose a domain name that reflects your topic or brand, with short, easy to spell extensions. Verify availability with domain search tools and maintain social media consistency before hosting.
Selecting a Hosting Provider4:11
Select a hosting provider for your WordPress blog, comparing options, prioritizing shared hosting with a free domain and SSL, easy WordPress install, 7‑day support, and $0.99–$6.99 monthly pricing.
Installing WordPress5:02
Install WordPress on your hosting by creating the site, using your domain name and admin email, and logging in with your username and password to prepare your blog.

Styling With Themes6:36
Learn to style your WordPress blog by selecting and applying a team, previewing colors, fonts, and layouts. Start with a free team, compare paid options, and activate the best fit.
WordPress Settings11:12
Log into the WordPress admin panel, open settings, and configure general settings such as the site title, tagline, site address, and administration email. Then tailor reading and discussion options, media defaults, and the permalink structure, decide whether to display full text or summaries in rss, choose whether search engines index your content, and set up the privacy page and access restrictions.
Posts V/s Pages in Wordpress4:10
Learn the difference between posts and pages in WordPress, including publish date, author/auteur, categories, and tags, and practice creating a page and a blog post in the admin panel.
Customizing Theme10:04
Explore how to customize a WordPress theme through the admin panel, including timeline view options, homepage settings, site identity, header images, icons, colors, and optional CSS tweaks.
Widgets and Menus5:08
Learn to set up WordPress navigation menus and widgets, create a main menu, add pages, posts, categories, and custom links, and publish changes to sidebars and footers.
Plug-ins8:50
Discover how to extend a WordPress site with plugins, starting with free options, then install, activate, and configure settings such as Google Tag Manager to integrate third-party tools.

Requirements

Understanding of computers

Description

This is a simple, step-by-step course for beginners to learn WordPress and build a website or a blog.

Each lesson teaches you the concepts and provides you with an assignment to follow the instructions and do it on your own site (doing is the best way of learning).

At the end of the course

1. You will have a site/blog in WordPress
Customize your blog with themes
Understand the difference between blog pages and posts
Understand what plugins do and add them to your site/blog
Understand what widgets do and add them to your site/blog
Learn how to add Google Analytics to track the performance of your website/blog.
Get the site ready to build your business.

Why Should you learn WordPress?

Unlike Facebook pages, a site built in WordPress is your own. You own everything on it.
Your website/blog is the best way to market yourself or your business.
You can build an entire business on a WordPress site with an appropriate theme. You will learn all about themes in this course. Some example themes for business are eCommerce, services, Lead Generation, Online Courses etc.
Use WordPress blog to showcase your work and resume
Write articles on your blog to build your authority in your career.

Who this course is for:

Digital Marketers
Digital Analysts
Anybody who wants to understand how to setup WordPress Blogs

WordPress for Beginner Build Your WordPress Site and Blog

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 19min

Setting up the blog6 lectures • 46min

Bonus Lesson1 lecture • 1min

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