Create WordPress Website To Sell Digital Products NO CODING!

In this lecture we are going to register our domain name for our website and sign up with a hosting company. I will show you how to find your desired domain name with .com, .net, .org and etc. After registering our domain name we will need to sign up for a hosting provider. Hostgator is a great hosting company, and I highly recommend you guys work with them. To get the best Hostgator prices (for any package or billing plan) use my code 'WPBESTOFFER' and you will get an amazing discount. I would also like to reward you for using the code, and I will show you during this course how I am going to do so.

After watching the lecture above, many contacted me and asked how to buy a country-based domain such as .nl .au .nz .ch and etc. If your website will serve mostly the local people of your country, buying such a domain make a lot of sense. While Hostgator will host any domain, buying a country-base domain is not possible through Hostgator. Therefore, we need to buy the domain through a different domain registry website and point it to Hostgator.

Buy your international domain here: wproyalty.com/go/domains

In this lecture we will activate our Hostgator account so we can log in to our dashboard and admin panel. From our Hostgator dashboard account we will install the WordPress platform. WordPress is the most popular and the best content management system, and we will use it with our website. Then, we will do a quick walk through of the menus inside the WordPress dashboard.

One of the nice things about WordPress is that we can install plugins (like apps for iPhones) to expand the functionality of WordPress. In this lecture I will show you how to install and use the relevant plugins for this course. After that, I will show you how to install the best theme for digital products. Using this specific theme will insure that your store page will look amazing- better than with any other theme. We will also create and make a child theme. The reason for creating a child theme is that we will be able to edit and customize the child theme as we wish without losing the changes when we update the parent theme.

Every website is made out of pages. The description that you are reading right now is in a page inside the Udemy website. This lecture will teach you how to create new pages, set their template, and publish them to the world. Also, if you would like to run a blog, this course is the one for you. This lecture will show you how to create blog posts and publish them.

Out of the box, WordPress is a great system to work with and is well structured. That being said, we can still make it even better. This lecture will show you how to set WordPress in a much better way for you, for SEO (search engines), and for your visitors as well.

Before we will dive in to customizing and styling each of the pages individually we will go through the general customization options for that theme and WordPress. Here we can set the theme logo, colors, menus, footer text, header text and etc. We can also customize the Easy Digital Downloads download pages from the customization screen, change the 'Buy Button' color, and much more.

The Easy Digital Downloads is an amazing plugin to sell digital products. Before we start creating our products we will need to set up the plugin. We need to define some options from the Easy Digital Downloads settings page, like what is the currency that we would like to charge? What is our PayPal email address? And so on.

Now it's time to start and fill up our store. You have amazing digital products to sell and now it's the time to let them shine, display it to the world, and spread the word. In this lecture I will show you how to upload the products, where to write the description and the excerpt, how to upload a feature image and etc.

Every good homepage is built with sections that provide different kinds of information about the products, business or the brand. This first homepage section will have an H1 heading to show what we offer (proposal) along with a sub heading (H2) to shortly describe why it is good for them. For example: Skype H1 (Heading 1) says, "Skype keeps the world talking, for free" and their H2 (Heading 2) says, "Download Skype today to chat and call on desktop and mobile."

in appreciation for using my 'WPBESTOFFER' discount code for Hostgator I would like to reward you with this awesome header design. In this great new design we will inline the logo, menu, and cart in the same row to use the spare room. That way, we will lift the above the fold content higher so our title, subtitle, and the call to action button will be visible before scrolling down the page.

The 'As Featured On' section is a great way to build brand recognition and to earn trust from your visitors. Visitors who trust you will become customers. When you display places that you were featured on, that shows your visitors that your brand is well known and shows proof. For example, scroll down this page and check their 'Featured On' section at the bottom themightymug.com.

After we told our visitors who we are and that they can trust us, it's a great time to encourage them to take action and browse our digital products store. In this third section we will display images of our categories and links to each of the categories pages. At the bottom of this section we will add a button with a link to the products list store page so they can see all the products in the same page.

In this section we will enter all the bullet points that will help us to convert our visitors into customers. Try to list all the things that you are known to be good at, why you are better than your competition, and the key points that make your products great. For example, if you sell images, your bullet point may be: 1. 4K quality. 2. Royalty free. and etc. You can also add bullet points about your business, like: 1. 24/7 support. 2. 30 days money back and etc.

Other customers using your products / digital downloads and loving it? GREAT! Use this information and their feedback and let everyone know it. Your customers are great assets, and people trust other people. Use their positive feedback and display it to the world. Other visitors will read it and will trust your brand and products much more.

This "By The Numbers" section is a great way to display some of your business stats. You will see many websites do that in many different ways. We will use the counter widget to get the visitors' attention. In this section you can list numbers about your business, sales, products or customers. For example, if you upload images consistently, you can add a counter like "30 new images every week." If you want to tell your visitor that many other people buy your products you can write "150 downloads every day." That way, your visitors will see that others are already using your website and so they will too.

Even for the easiest product in the world, there are some questions that need to be answered. In this section we are going to answer all of the most popular questions that our visitors ask. Don't leave any questions hanging in the air. Websites with good information will convert better. Try to think of the simplest questions that visitors may possibly have, and answer them. Along the way, customers will contact you through the 'Contact Us' page and will ask you questions that they couldn't find an answer to. Collect the most popular questions from your customers, and add it to this FAQ section.

Your opinion matters, and running a blog is a perfect way to share your thoughts with the world. Presenting a posts grid in your homepage is the best way to expose your audiences to read your amazing posts. When a visitor spend more time in your website, there is a better chance that they will end up in your store buying your products. Also, when a visitor spends more time in your website, your Bounce Rate decreases, which is great for SEO purposes! Your site will rank higher in Google.

Our homepage looking great. Before moving on to the next page I would like to use this lecture and show you few extra tricks to take your designs to the next level. I will show you different kind of backgrounds like gradient background with multiple colors and also a video background. Plus, I will show you the Shape Divider option and also a transition option that can be applied to sections and other elements. These options are a great way to make your website more live and responsive and you can use them to catch your visitors attention.

About us is a must have page in your website. Rule of thumb, buyers purchase from people, not from a business. Creating a trust relationship is the most effective way to increase revenue. Your website's visitors would like to know who they are buying from. Your story can inspires your visitors to purchase your products more than any other sales pitch. In this part 1 video we will make the first section with a short description about our whole team before dive in and introduce each of the team members individually.

About us is a must have page in your website. Rule of thumb, buyers purchase from people, not from a business. Creating a trust relationship is the most effective way to increase revenue. Your website's visitors would like to know who they are buying from. Your story can inspires your visitors to purchase your products more than any other sales pitch. In this part 2 video we will write a short description for each of the team members individually.

Contact us page is an extremely important page for your website and it won't be complete without it. Thanks to the contact us form we will be able to get feedback and maintain a relationship with our visitors / customers. Also, your visitors need to know that they have the option to contact you and get support if they have any issues with your products. Good support is a great bullet point to encourage your visitors to purchase your products. This contact us page will show your physical location (optional) along with a contact form.

Our blog posts, downloads pages and many of our pages comes with a sidebar. Sidebar is the tall section on the right to the content (or left) that holds different kind of information. Each of the blocks inside the sidebar called widgets. In this lecture I will show you how to delete or add different kind of widgets and I will also suggest you what kind of widgets will convert better.

As an appreciation for using my link for purchasing the Elementor Pro version I would like to reward you with this awesome footer design. The footer is a great real-estate to display relevant information regarding your brand, business or products that can be seen through every page of your website. As an appreciation for using my link I created a footer template with widgets and social icons menu.

In this lecture I'll show you how to create discount codes for your eCommerce digital shop. Discount codes are a great way to encourage buyers to take prompt action and purchase the products. It's also a great way to run promotions (like Christmas sale) or reward them for signing up to your email list (something like: sign up and get 30% off).

Shortcodes as it sounds are a small code inside a square brackets that will execute a much larger code behind the scenes and will display the result in the page where the shortcode is. Easy Digital Downloads comes with many shortcodes that we can use within our eCommerce store. In this lecture I will walk through the most common shortcode and will show you how to adjust the shortcode attributes so it will execute different results. I will also show you how to find all the EasyDigitalDownloads shortcodes that we can use.

PayPal is a very popular internet bank. Your EasyDigitalDownloads website cart will have a PayPal gateway out of the box. After defined our PayPal settings earlier this course through out the EasyDigitalDownloads settings page, we need to make sure that everything is working properly with no problems. In this video we will purchase one of our products with PayPal.

In order to charge credit cards, our website must be secured and our domain must be verify. In this lecture we will install our SSL certificate. That way, we will improve our domain authority, show visitors that our site is secured and charge them with credit cards, Also, you will be rank higher on Google thanks to that.

After installing our SSL certificate our site is safe and secured. Now you can load your website as https (the s mean secure) instead of the regular http. You should see a green padlock next to https that indicates that it's secured. Sometimes, for few reasons your site won't show the green padlock. In this lecture I will show you how to check why our padlock is not green and how to fix it. Check why your padlock isn't green here: whynopadlock.com

In this lecture we will register with an online payments service. In order to charge credit cards we will need to have a company to do it for us. Charge the customers and transfer the money to our bank. Stripe (stripe.com) is the most popular company and I will show you how to sign up with them, verify your account and connect it with your bank. We also going to install Easy Digital Downloads Stripe add-on to integrate our digital downloads store with stripe. The Easy Digital Downloads add-on will communicate between the two.

As an appreciation for using my link to purchase the Easy Digital Downloads Stripe Addon, I would like to reward you with this awesome cart design. In this awesome cart design, I styled the payment options buttons better, I added the trust SSL seal badge, changed the "This is a secure SSL encrypted payment" text color to green and enter the terms and conditions to a frame. That way, when users click on the 'show terms' button they won't be intimidate to buy if they won't read the terms which will convert better.

Out of the box, your website will be mobile friendly and will look amazing from any screen size or device (iPhone, iPad, Android, any smartphone or tablet). That been said, we can still make some extra customization and tweaks to make it look even better. This lecture will show you how to tackle some mobile design issues and how to solve them so it will look perfectly complete with any screen size.