
Learn to build a secure WordPress website by creating navigation menus, adding content, and designing a responsive home page with an image slider and widgets, plus basic security features.
Learn how to install WordPress on a web host, a free platform powering about 28% of sites, with themes and plugins, and how to access the dashboard.
Install the Virtue WordPress theme, activate it, and install a plugin to unlock options; customize the layout, logo, footer columns, and top toolbar with social icons to preview.
Create and edit pages in WordPress, then build navigation menus and assign them to primary or secondary locations. Enhance menus by adding icons and applying classes to customize their appearance.
Learn to customize a WordPress site's navigation by adjusting the top bar colors with hex codes, and fine-tune font style, size, and colors for primary and secondary menus.
Add an image slider to the home page by uploading slides, selecting a full width slider, then save. Set pause to four seconds and crop images to the recommended size.
Add media, create galleries, publish posts with feature images, configure the home and blog pages, and set up a contact form using a shortcode.
Edit the donate, video, and about pages in the WordPress back end, paste text, embed a YouTube video, center content, add a PayPal donate button, and update.
Customize the WordPress homepage with the home layout manager, disable the page title, and add the latest blog post; adjust widgets and footer content with text widgets.
Test your WordPress site's responsiveness across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices with a live preview tool, and fix navigation visibility by creating a new menu in the dashboard.
Set up a secure ftp connection by using sftp with encryption, configure a FileZilla site manager profile with host name, username, and password, and verify tls encrypted transfer.
See how brute force attacks work on WordPress with WPScan and wordlists, then secure your site by changing the admin username and stopping enumeration with All In One WP Security.
Change the WordPress database table prefix to a new value and enable captcha-based spam protection using the All In One WP Security plugin, with a prior database backup.
Learn to password protect a folder with the htaccess file on an Apache server, generate credentials with htpasswd, and test the login prompt in the browser.
Learn to harden WordPress security by editing the root .htaccess to disable directory browsing, protect the .htaccess and wp-config.php files, block IPs, and disable the WordPress editor.
Install and activate a security question plugin, configure login questions, apply them to the WordPress login screen, and test the login workflow for added protection.
Protect your WordPress content by password-protecting posts and using a no-right-click plugin to deter copying, with customizable alert messages.
Learn to back up and restore a WordPress site using the UpdraftPlus plugin with weekly automatic backups to Dropbox, perform manual backups, and restore from existing backups.
This course will teach you how to build a secure, responsive website with WordPress.
You don't need to purchase hosting or pay for anything to follow along and practice building a website yourself.
This course covers:
After completing this course, you will be able to completely create a secure WordPress website from scratch.