How to Create a Wordpress Website from Scratch - No Coding

The main things we'll need to do to get a website live on the internet are:

1. Register a Domain Name
2. Set Up Web Hosting
3. Install WordPress

You'll learn about domain names, what to keep in mind when choosing a name, and how to contact the owner if a domain name is already taken.

You'll see step by step how to register a domain name through NameCheap.

You'll learn what web hosting is and why it's necessary.

You'll see how to sign up for web hosting at the cheapest possible price.

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You'll see how to connect your NameCheap domain and HostGator hosting by pointing your domain name to your web host.

You'll see how to install WordPress from the HostGator cPanel.

You're initially given randomly generated passwords for HostGator and WordPress. This lecture shows you how to change those passwords to whatever you'd like.

You'll learn the differences between WordPress[dot]org and WordPress[dot]com and when to use each. Differences such as price, hosting, flexibility, and ease of use.

The dashboard is where you go to make any changes to your website through WordPress. You'll learn how to log in to your dashboard. You'll also learn what the toolbar is and why it's useful.

You'll learn what themes are and how they affect the look and feel of your website.

You'll learn how to find the best themes through WordPress and through Google. Along the way you'll also learn about installing WordPress themes, activating them, live previewing, and demoing them, and getting them for free.

The way you customize a theme varies from theme to theme. You'll learn some of the main ways to customize a theme, see some examples of customizing a theme, and learn what to do if you can't figure out how to customize a certain theme. You'll learn about using a theme's homepage and WordPress support page to help you customize that theme.

Summarizing themes by going through an example of my process for finding and customizing a theme.

You'll learn what cache is, why it's useful to clear your cache, and how to clear it.

You'll learn what plugins are, why they're important, and how to find and install them. Then we'll install a few example plugins and play around with them.

You'll learn what widgets are, why they're important, and how to use them. This includes how to edit them, put them in different locations, and how they relate to the theme you're using. We'll also play around with a few different widgets.

Jetpack is basically a collection of useful plugins. You'll learn how to enable Jetpack and see in action.

A step by step walk-through of creating a WordPress[dot]com account (you need this account to use Jetpack).

What is Mojo Marketplace and how to deactivate it.

You'll learn what pages and posts are, and the main differences between them.

You'll learn how to add new posts and edit them. We'll make an example post to show you how to use the editor. This includes adding a title, body, picture, saving a draft, previewing the draft, and publishing the post.

We'll talk about what a post format is, how they relate to themes, and show you some of the different formats.

You'll learn what post categories are, and see how they are used.

You'll learn what post tags are, and how they are used.

You'll learn how to add new pages and edit them. This will also go over hierarchy of pages and a little bit about how they are displayed on the navigation bar.

You'll learn how to create menus or nav bars, and customize them to show what you'd like. This includes hierarchy, adding pages, posts, categories, tags and custom links. You'll also learn how to use widgets to put your menu in different places on your site like the sidebar.

You'll learn different ways to add and edit different types of media. You'll also learn more advanced options for your media like adding alt text images, galleries, and slideshows.

You'll what users are, the features surrounding, and how to add and edit them. This includes customizing a user profile, authorship, and user roles and access.

You'll learn about the native WordPress comment system, how to change comment settings, and how to manage comments.

I prefer using Disqus to manage comments over the native WordPress comment system. I'll go over some of the advantages of using Disqus, how to get it set up on WordPress, how to edit Disqus settings, and how to manage comments on Disqus. You'll also see how examples of Disqus in action.

You'll learn what shortcode is by seeing it in action with the Animate It! Plugin.