Wordpress simplified for beginners

Define a website as a collection of related web pages with text, images, videos, and links as essential elements, each serving a specific purpose and interconnected through design properties.

Discover what a domain name is—the web address you type to reach a website—and how web hosting places your site on a server with an ip address, enabling internet access.

Explain static vs dynamic websites, including domain names and hosting. Describe server-side scripting and outline steps to start building your Wordpress site.

Learn how to search for and register an available domain name and select a hosting plan, with tips on availability, extensions, and provider guidance.

Organize provider emails in a dedicated folder, then use the included username, password, and login URL for your domain or temporary address to access hosting.

Log into cPanel using the username and password emailed after buying your domain and hosting, via the panel URL, to access your hosting dashboard.

Learn how to obtain the WordPress CMS by downloading from wordpress.org, noting the 9.9 MB file size, and prepare for uploading to your subdomain in the next lesson.

Upload WordPress to a cPanel hosting account using the file manager, and place it in public_html after downloading WordPress.

Extract WordPress CMS files by right-clicking the compressed file, selecting extract, and choosing the destination folder to reveal a new folder with all extracted files.

Move the extracted Wordpress files back to the public_html main folder by selecting all files and using move, placing them in the public_ underscore as dml main folder.

Create a database for your WordPress site in cPanel before editing the wp-config file, then configure wp-config with the database details.

Learn how to log in to your WordPress CMS, access the back end dashboard, and manage the front end design, posts, pages, and menus.

Learn to locate your created database, edit the wp-config-sample file to insert the database name, username, and password, and save the changes.

Remove the dash from the wp-config file to rename it. Move WordPress files to the public_html folder and update the database name, username, and password.

Configure and access your WordPress site after installation by setting language, site name, user credentials, and email, then log in to manage content.

Log in to your Wordpress dashboard using domain/wp-admin or domain/wp-login, then manage the back end and front end of your site to customize content, menus, and design.

Learn how to install WordPress on your domain and hosting, configure the database and wp-config, and access the dashboard to manage site settings, posts, media, and appearance.

Navigate the wordpress dashboard to manage posts, pages, media, and comments from the left menu. Learn how the back-end dashboard controls front-end content, visit domain, and manages login details.

Explore the WordPress dashboard by using the home and updates options to quickly access actions like adding posts or pages and reviewing available updates for WordPress, plugins, and themes.

This lesson explains the difference between posts and pages in WordPress, showing pages for static content like about us, contact, and products pages, and posts for articles organized by categories.

Learn how posts differ from pages, navigate the WordPress dashboard, and manage content by adding, editing, deleting, and setting menus to create a home or landing page.

Learn to use the WordPress media library to upload and manage images, embed videos via links, and optimize image sizes to fit hosting bandwidth.

Learn to add new pages in wordpress, title them for URLs, publish with text and media from the library, then arrange pages (home, about us) for menus.

learn to add new posts in WordPress, navigate the posts menu, publish and reorder posts, and display them on the front end for a clean site structure.

Learn to manage Wordpress posts with quick edit, set slugs and titles, categorize with categories and tags, enable privacy or password protection, disable comments, and publish.

Customize slugs and permalinks in WordPress by replacing date-based URLs with product names, adjusting slug formats in settings, and ensuring the pages display clean, shareable URLs.

Create multiple WordPress menus by going to appearance and menus, add pages and posts to each (for example, products and home), and save before placing them in site locations.

Assign the main menu to the home page and save changes. Drag and drop items like home, about us, products, and contact us to order them and create sub menus.

Learn to add a proper sidebar menu in WordPress by using the navigation menu widget, renaming recent posts, and configuring the products menu on the right side.

set a static home page in WordPress by selecting a specific page under settings to use as the homepage, replacing the default latest posts.

Learn to manage WordPress widgets on the landing page, sidebar, and footer. Drag and drop calendars and galleries, select images from the media library, and refresh to see changes.

Explore how to change the overall design by selecting and activating different WordPress themes, and see how each theme controls layout, fonts, color schemes, and widget areas.

Install and activate new themes to refresh your WordPress site by uploading or selecting free themes, exploring widget areas and sidebars, and previewing the updated look.

Explore WordPress theme customization by adjusting site identity, colors, background, menus, and widgets; add a logo and title tag, preview on devices, and publish changes.

Learn to search, install, activate, deactivate, and delete WordPress plugins, find a contact form plugin such as contact form 7, review ratings and feedback, then apply it to your site.

Activate the contact form plugin and use the new left menu options to create, customize, and embed one or more forms on pages; configure recipients and test by submitting.

Add new users to your WordPress site by creating usernames, emails, first names, last names, websites, and passwords, then assign roles like administrator, contributor, or subscriber with proper restrictions.

Keep your WordPress site secure by regularly updating core, plugins, and themes, and create backups via the backup wizard or manual ZIP archiving.

Discover two ways to share videos on WordPress: upload to the media library or embed from video hosting sites like YouTube, to save hosting space.

Learn how to add internal and external hyperlinks in your Wordpress text by selecting text, using insert link, and choosing internal pages or external sites like google.com.

Detect available updates in WordPress from the updates page, update plugins and themes, and keep your WordPress CMS reliable and secure for seamless use.

Finish the course while continuing to learn about WordPress optimization, blogs, and discussions. Use Discourse to create your website and manage text, images, media, and links.