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WordPress Intermediate Skills

If you use WordPress, this course takes you beyond the basics and teaches you skills essential to all WordPress users.
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (308 ratings)
3,064 students
Created by Andrew Williams
Last updated 12/2019
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Intermediate skills to take your WordPress skills to the next level.
  • About the WordPress files installed on your server
  • The importance of child themes and how to create them.
  • More information about WordPress pages, including parent-child relationship, page templates, template hierarchy, conditional statements, custom page templates and custom post templates.
  • Why redirects are important and how to implement them.
  • Quickly converting your site to HTTPS if supported by your web host (most do).
  • How to speed up your site, and how to check if it is mobile friendly.
  • Design stuff like dynamic widgets and sidebars, page builders, Google Maps without plugins and much more.
  • Better media library control and image galleries.
  • Wordpress users and roles, plus how to create your own roles.
  • GDPR - everyone needs to be compliant.
  • How autoresponders work and why you should use them.
  • Creating different site structures using WordPress.
  • Why time-on-site & CTR are important and how to monitor them and tweak elements on your page to improve these metrics.
  • How to create a staging platform to work on your site behind the scenes until you want to push changes to the live site.
  • WordPress developers tools built into Google Chrome, and how to use them to tweak your page design.
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Course content

18 sections • 86 lectures • 8h 42m total length

  • Preview04:37

  • Preview02:34
  • FTP
    11:11
  • File Manager
    06:35
  • WordPress Files & Folders
    15:45
  • Functions.php file
    05:43

  • Child Themes
    05:16
  • Manually Create a Child Theme
    09:42

  • Preview02:40
  • Parent-Child Relationship
    07:05
  • Full Width Pages
    02:29
  • Page Templates
    02:40
  • Template Hierarchy
    06:21
  • Conditional Statements
    07:27
  • Custom Page Templates
    15:42
  • Custom Post Templates
    03:56

  • Preview05:19
  • 301 Redirects
    07:30
  • A Redirects Plugin
    06:43
  • Short Links Plugin
    08:05

  • Preview03:03
  • Let's Encrypt
    07:39
  • Testing SSL
    05:53

  • Testing Google Mobile-Friendly
    03:10
  • Site Speed
    01:12
  • GTMetrix
    13:11
  • Image Optimization
    17:10
  • Caching
    02:37
  • Litespeed Caching Plugin
    14:32
  • W3 Total Cache
    07:36
  • An Asset Manager Plugin
    10:36
  • CDN
    03:29
  • Accessing Cloudflare?
    03:19
  • Add a Domain to Cloudflare
    04:03
  • Cloudflare Interface
    11:06

  • Design Stuff Overview
    01:26
  • Themes
    11:15
  • Dynamic Widgets
    07:56
  • Custom Sidebars
    09:02
  • Jump Links
    04:13
  • Google ReCaptcha
    05:10
  • Page Builders
    05:13
  • Gutenberg
    10:28
  • Elementor
    12:38
  • Elementor Pro
    10:56
  • Google Maps
    03:41
  • Post Order
    03:57
  • About Us Best Practices
    05:35
  • Favicons
    01:25
  • Creating a Favicon
    03:21
  • Installing a Favicon
    02:20

  • Media LIbrary Overview
    08:50
  • Image Galleries
    10:34

  • Users & Roles
    01:13
  • Default Roles
    04:05
  • Role Editor
    04:55

Requirements

  • You should be able to use WordPress to build a website, and want to learn more.

Description

I have been teaching WordPress for around 15 years and recently asked a group of my students:

"What do you think is missing from most WordPress courses, that YOU feel all WordPress users need to know." 

This course is the result of that questionnaire.

If you have a working knowledge of WordPress, but want to learn more and become a better website developer, then this course can help. 

This course does not teach you how to use WordPress.  That much is assumed. 

This course includes more information on :

  1. WordPress files on your server and how to access them with FTP or through cPanel.

  2. Child themes and how to create them.

  3. WordPress pages including parent-child relationships, page templates, template hierarchy, conditional statements, custom page templates and custom post templates.

  4. Why redirects are important and how to use them successfully.

  5. HTTP to HTTPS conversion on web hosts that support Let's Encrypt.

  6. Improving page load times by optimizing your site,  and checking your site is mobile-friendly.

  7. Design stuff like Themes, Dynamic Widgets, Custom Sidebars, Jump Links, Page Builders & Favicons.

  8. The Media Library and image galleries.

  9. WordPress Users and roles.  Your'll also learn how to create your own roles.

  10. GDPR and how to ensure you are compliant.

  11. Autoresponders - how they work and why you should use them.

  12. Site Structure - how to create different types of site with WordPress using the tools available within the Dashboard.

  13. CTR & Time on Site, and how to improve these by monitoring and tweaking.

  14. WordPress Problems and how to solve the majority of them quickly and easily.

  15. Staging Sites and how to create them so you can work on a copy of your site and only push updates to the live site when you are ready.

  16. Developer Tools built into Google Chrome (& Firefox) to help examine the code behind your site, and tweak it.

By the end of this course you will have a more complete tool set to create engaging, successful websites using WordPress.

Who this course is for:

  • WordPress users that want to learn more skills relevant to WordPress development.

Featured review

Donald Frye
Donald Frye
159 courses
22 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
If you build WP sites, take this course. I have taken five other WP courses on Udemy and none of them tell you how to actually build a site. They all tell you how to layout a site and content. But a site is much more than layout and content. This course fills in a much-needed void left by the others. It covers things like SSL certs, child theme mods, Google maps integration, and more. The instructor is easy to follow and to the point.

Instructor

Andrew Williams
Wordpress, SEO & Self-Publishing Expert, teacher and author
Andrew Williams
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 25,116 Reviews
  • 116,392 Students
  • 29 Courses

I have written and published a number of books that are available on Amazon, including best selling books on Wordpress ("Wordpress for Beginners 2020") and search engine optimization ("SEO 2020").  I also run a website called ezSEONews, where I teach my visitors and newsletter subscribers a number of skills required for running a successful website.

         As an ex-schoolteacher, I hope I can make complicated topics simple to understand.  I certainly enjoy trying! 

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