The Complete WordPress Website Full Course

In this section, students will be introduced to the Self-Hosted WordPress Software which allows them to build any website they want. You can download the WordPress software and install it on your plan.

   Kindly note that you will need to have a domain name and hosting before installing your WordPress Software on it.

WordPress has a lot of immense benefits - whether you are a content creator, developer, designer, business owner, brand, and/or organization. In this section, we would take a look at some of the benefits of using WordPress.

Let's get started with the "Deep Dive" section by taking a Brief Introduction to one of the most important aspects of a WordPress Website - Themes.

   The choice of Themes you decided for your website will determine how your website will looks like - hence it is important to pay a great attention to this aspect.

Now that you know what a theme is, this episode will show you how to easily change your website appearance. In this practical session, we'll be Installing a new beautiful theme to make our website look more awesome than the default look

Previously, you were able to learn how to install a new theme on your Website to make your Website look more attractive. However, there is something very important you need to know and that is.. the manual method of uploading a Theme to your Website.

  This is quite useful when you are purchasing a Premium amazing theme from 3rd party Marketplace like Themeforest, and the likes.

Introduction to Customizing your WordPress Website Theme

Want to check the Responsiveness of your Website? This part would show you how to check your Website Responsiveness by showing the Desktop version, Tablet version and Mobile version.

Let's start with giving your website an Identity by adding your Logo and Website Icon.

Want to make your website more colorful and attractive? Learn how to change the colors of your WordPress Website

Explore the full power of Theme customization by navigating to the Theme options and making more changes.

Did you know you can also add an Image as a Background to your Website? In this episode, you'll learn how to add a Background Image to your Website.

Navigation-Menus make it easier for your website visitors to move from one part of your Website to other pages on your Website. In this aspect, you'll learn how to make customization to your site via the Theme Customization section.

One of the most powerful features on a WordPress Website is the Widgets section - which is where you get to add more Widgets to your Website to make it more amazing. In this episode, you'll learn what a WordPress Widget is, where you can place them on your Website and how to Place them.

Let's wrap up by taking a look at how to change your Website Homepage settings - via the Theme Customization Section.

An Introduction to the Posts Section on your WordPress Dashboard

Learn about other Post Editing Blocks and Tools available and how to make use of them to create an awesome experience. By the end of this session, you will also be given the Assignment to practice so you can become proficient in using the Block Editor tools.

Check the resources attached to this Module and recreate the article in the picture.

Here, we will take all of the knowledge learned in the previous episodes and use them to write an interactive post. At the end of this video, you will learn how to use different post editor tools to create an amazing article.

Block Settings are quite vital and important as they allow you to make important changes to your post. More importantly, you get to add styles and effects to each block in your post body.

In this video, we will use the knowledge of Block settings to apply as well as Add styles and effects to the Paragraph Block.

  Check the Resources section to find out the end result.

After learning about the Paragraph block settings, In this video, we will proceed to take a look at other blocks and see what features they have as well.

While Block Editor Settings applies to an individual posts, the Post Settings TAB applies to all Blocks in the article. Here, we would start first with an Introduction to the POST Settings and then, you would get to know all you need to know about POST Settings such as;

• Adding categories

• Changing Permalinks

• Setting Featured Images

• Password protect your article

• Schedule your article to publish in the future

• And more..

Introduction to WordPress Pages

Here, you will learn more about the Pages Dashboard Screen and some Important shortcuts you should be familiar with.

By the end of this section, you will learn how to create and edit a new static page from your Dashboard .

WordPress Discussion system is one of the most powerful and interactive commenting systems out there. In this lecture, you'll be shown the comment system dashboard screen from your WordPress backend dashboard

In this lecture, you will get to view the available comment options that are for you to use - such as moving comments to SPAM, TRASH, PENDING, displaying your own comments, and more!

By the end of this lecture, students should be able to know how to add a new comment to their website. Kindly note that: In most cases, your site visitors would be the ones to be leaving comments on your website.

  Yours is to respond to their comments (- be it whether they are asking questions, leaving compliments, offering feedback, etc.)

In this section, you will learn how to manage the comments on your website. This includes but not limited to;

• Moderating a comment

• Approving comments

• Replying to comments

• And more.

By the end of this Lecture, students should be able to learn how to manage the discussion settings of their website. Some of the WordPress discussion settings likely to encounter are;

• Breaking comments into pages

• Closing comments on older articles

• Optionally allowing visitors to input their names before leaving a comment

• Filtering comments before they are approved

• and more!

Menu locations are determined by the theme you are using. In this video, you'll find out how and you can try to switch from one theme to another so you could detect how the menu locations for each theme are different.

By the end of this part, you'll learn how to create different menu for different locations on your Website

By the end of this part, you'll learn how to add items to your menu and assign them to different locations on your website. You'll also learn how to view those menus from your website frontend

We will be testing the menus we just created against different themes to see how our menus is going to look like. Feel free to use any themes you like and explore the noticeable changes

In this video, you'll learn about everything it is, to WordPress Media Files - From Images to Videos, Documents, Audios, and lots more. In addition, you'll also learn how to;

• ADD new media files

• EDIT existing media files

• RESIZE Image media files

• Add SEO Alt text to media files

• DELETE Unused and/or unnecessary media files

• And lots more..

In this video, we are going to make an Introduction session about WordPress plugins!

This practical guide will enable you to understand how you can use plugins to make changes to your website. In this case study here, we use the Health Check and Troublehshooting plugin for references

A continuation of the previous session, here we are going to make use of a WordPress plugin called WP Reset to make changes.

Learn how to Install a New plugin to your Dashboard via the Manual Method

Learn how to Install and Activate a New plugin via the WordPress plugin repository (automatically)

In this deeper session, we will be using a plugin called Smart Slider to discover how to extend a WordPress Website functionality.