
Build a WordPress site from the ground up with WordPress.org, and learn to create pages, a blog, add media, and update your site independently.
Set up a WordPress site by logging in and installing a free theme. Customize the theme using the WordPress dashboard to create a branded, visually engaging homepage.
Create and customize core pages—home, about, blog, and contact—using WordPress, add media and links, and set a static front page and blog page.
Learn how to enhance your WordPress site with widgets in sidebars and footers, and extend functionality with plugins such as social icons, contact forms, and events calendars.
Learn the basics of HTML formatting in WordPress using tags like strong, em, center, and headers. Apply these in widgets and pages to style text, add links, and insert images.
Learn how to embed videos into a WordPress site using YouTube or Vimeo, including steps to create a page, copy embed code, and adjust iframe dimensions for clean display.
Explore how to boost WordPress SEO with the Yoast SEO plugin, optimizing titles, descriptions, slugs, and on-page content for keywords like become a virtual assistant.
This course is great for beginners who are looking to build their own basic WordPress website without having to pay a designer thousands of dollars. It's also been great for our Virtual Assistant students who want to be able to provide website updating to their clients. For students who are enrolling in this class to build their own WordPress website, you will need to have a url name and a hosting account. We will go over how to purchase both of those, and set them up, in our first module. You can so Godaddy for pricing, but generally, domains are around $10/year and hosting around $6/month. Both items are needed to have a published website on the internet. Please reach out if you have any questions!