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Design Web Design WordPress

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress for Beginners

By the end of this course, you will be experienced and confident in your abilities to use WordPress.
Rating: 3.6 out of 53.6 (54 ratings)
533 students
Created by Al Davis
Published 6/2013
English
English [Auto]
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What you'll learn

  • By the end of the course , you will be able to install, configure and manage WordPress to power your personal or business website

Requirements

  • None

Description

 This course is designed to help the new user get used to all the functionality offered in WordPress. 

This course is filled with detailed screencasts that show you step by step how to install, configure, and use WordPress.

Who is this course for?

  • Anyone who is looking to learn WordPress from an experienced WordPress educator
  • Anyone who is looking to learn how to build, manage and maintain a website using the WordPress platform
  • Business owners with a limited budget who need to get a website online
  • If you have a WordPress website already and are looking to learn how to use WordPress

Materials Included:

Over 30 screencast videos showing you in detail how to :

  1. Use all the aspects of the WordPress dashboard
  2. Create content
  3. Create custom menus
  4. Basics on domains and hosting from a 15 yr veteran of that space.
  5. Quizzes are included in the course to reinforce what you have learned
  6. How to manage your images
  7. How to update your WordPress website
  8. Beginning in August 2013, weekly Live sessions where you can get your WordPress questions answered!

Who this course is for:

  • New users to WordPress, Small business owners

Course content

10 sections • 34 lectures • 3h 29m total length

  • Preview02:06
  • Preview04:42
  • Wordpress.com or Wordpress.org?
    08:45
  • Preview14:42
  • Section 1 Quiz
    10 questions

  • Setting up a WordPress.com site
    03:25
  • Setting up a WordPress.org site
    04:11
  • FTP WordPress to your hosting space
    05:48
  • The famous 5 minute install
    06:21
  • Section 2 Quiz
    4 questions

  • The WordPress Dashboard
    06:56
  • Settings-General
    06:49
  • Settings- Writing
    05:48
  • Preview04:11
  • Settings-Discussion
    10:16
  • Settings- Media
    03:30
  • Settings-Permalinks
    03:16
  • Tools
    02:48
  • Section 3 Quiz
    5 questions

  • Creating Users and their roles
    07:06

  • Posts, Pages, Categories and Tags
    12:48
  • Creating Content- Getting started with the Post Screen
    07:34
  • Creating Posts- The Visual Editing area
    08:51
  • Creating Categories and Tags
    04:50
  • Creating Pages
    03:19
  • Quick Edit mode
    02:05
  • Section 5 Quiz
    5 questions

  • Images
    07:11
  • Image galleries and adding video
    04:03

  • Preview03:42
  • Creating Custom Menus
    09:25

  • Introduction to Themes- Installing and Activating
    10:18
  • Premium Themes
    11:15

  • What is a plugin and where do I find them?
    10:51
  • Widgets
    04:05
  • Premium Plugins
    03:59

  • Updating WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes
    03:13
  • Congratulations and Conclusion
    01:10

Instructor

Al Davis
WordPress Educator- College Level
Al Davis
  • 3.6 Instructor Rating
  • 54 Reviews
  • 533 Students
  • 1 Course

When not at his day job in the hosting industry, Al teaches WordPress at a Toronto, Ont college and also does corporate WordPress training. As a freelance web developer, he is always busy building sites on the WordPress platform. All this leaves him very little time to ride his Harley and watch NFL football.

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