What you'll learn

Feel confident making their own wordpress website
Be able to navigate around the dashboard and customization areas easily

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 47m total length

Website Overview2:26
Learn to build a WordPress website from scratch without coding, adding a favicon and logo, home, about, and contact pages, blog posts with widgets, and social sharing.
Signing up for TMDHosting9:29
Sign up for hosting with TMDHosting to publish a live WordPress site, exploring starter and business plans, a free domain, SSD hosting, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee.

Installing WordPress8:53
Installing our Theme3:12
Install and activate a new WordPress theme, manage existing themes, delete older ones, search for optimizer, install, activate, and refresh to see the updated site.
Deleting Pre-Installed Content6:07
Clean up a WordPress site by removing hello world posts and sample pages, deleting default plugins, and configuring permalink settings to post name for better SEO.

Setting up our Menu4:25
Learn to set up a WordPress menu using customize, create a main menu, and add home, about, and contact pages, while configuring front page widgets and footer widgets.
Editing our Image Text11:41
Change the WordPress site background using free splash dot com images, set alt text for SEO, and customize the header title, logo, fonts, and front page slider to publish changes.
Adding a Blog Posts Section10:15
Learn to add a blog posts section in WordPress by creating posts, assigning categories and tags, setting featured images, and configuring the front page layout.
Learning More About Blog Post Features11:43
Explore WordPress blog post features by editing posts with visual and text editors, applying headings, lists, links, media alignment, and embedding YouTube videos.
Adding Widgets3:55
Adding Additional Elements to the Home Page8:01
Learn to customize the WordPress front page by adding widgets and blocks, editing content and colors, testing changes, and rearranging sections for a polished homepage.
Adding an About and Contact Page6:49
Create an about page and a contact page in WordPress by editing pages, wrapping images, using full-width templates, and adding a contact form with a plugin.
Footer Area and Social Media Icons9:54
SEO Plugin8:04
Install and activate the Yoast SEO plugin, then optimize posts with a focus keyword and readability indicators to drive on-page SEO and improve Google rankings.

Requirements

Basic Computer Skills
That I use a hosting affiliate during the hosting signup process

Description

In this tutorial series I go step by step through the process of creating a WordPress website for beginners. This series of videos teaches beginners how to make a WordPress website in 2017 on their own. By the end of the course students should feel much more confident in their ability to find their way around the WordPress dashboard and customization areas as well as complete basic websites from start to finish! If you're considering making your own website or a website for a friend or family member, but you're not quite sure what you're doing this course could be helpful for you!

Who this course is for:

WordPress beginners

What you'll learn

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Course content

Intro and Final Website Overview2 lectures • 12min

Getting WordPress Set Up3 lectures • 18min

Building Out the Website9 lectures • 1hr 15min

Bonus Section1 lecture • 2min

Requirements

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