Wordpress Tutorial : Wordpress For Beginners

Once installed, Wordpress leaves certain files and other default settings. These are not required and so we can delete or change them. This video shows us how and what to delete, and what default settings to change.

Security is incredibly important and is becoming more so as hackers become more and more sophisticated in their attacks.

Unscrupulous people love to invade a good Wordpress site with great traffic, just to post their own links. In this video we show simple things that you can do to make it very difficult for cyber thieves.

A Wordpress installation consists of many different modules which give the site different functionalities. The dashboard is the place where we can create pages and posts, install plugins and themes, configure widgets and menus, and set user authority.

You have heard of Wordpress pages and posts, but it can sometimes be confusing what the differences are. After this video you will be comfortable with creating a page.

A Wordpress post is basically an article that can appear on a page (and other places). It can have various characteristics, such as permissions for comments, that we control in the dashboard, and can contain text, images and/or video. You will learn how to create a Wordpress post properly after this lesson.

A Wordpress plugin is a piece of software designed to give extra funcionality to a site. It can be installed automatically very quickly and configure in the dashboard.

It's a great advantage, as we don't have to become involved in any coding, but just enjoy the features of our plugin - any plugins are free to download and use.

A bruteforce attack is a particular danger to a Wordpress site and entails multiple and massive attempts to guess your admin user name and password.

After this lesson you will be able to use a free plugin that eliminates the danger fro this hack.

A Wordpress theme is simple a pre-programmed template that determines the look of your site i.e. where things appear and how they relate to each other.

Many free themes are available and after this lesson you will be able to install and use a variety (although normally, just one theme is used.)

A Wordpress widget is a special piece of software that can be installed and place almost anywhere around your site to improve appearance or functionality. Widgets exist for html code insertion, text, titles and many other functions.

A Wordpress menu serves to improve the navigation around the site, which is important from a point of view of user comfort, but also SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

In this lesson you will learn how to configure your menus, also creating new ones using Widgets and placing them around your site.

Wordpress SEO, like all other internet sites, is heavily dependent on great and unique content. However, there are ways in which we can improve the way our site looks to the search engines - in this video you will learn how to improve SEO for your site using plugins.