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Wordpress Starting Kit: Build Your Site From Scratch

Name: Wordpress Starting Kit: Build Your Site From Scratch
Rating: 4.2 (42 reviews)

Wordpress Publishing: How to Build a Custom Wordpress Site from Scratch that Drives Traffic. Zero Coding.

Created byiMarket XL, Max Cord

Last updated 8/2017

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What you'll learn

Create a stable and profitable online business from the ground up
Understand and identify the keys of any successful online venture
Leverage the power of Wordpress to manage an online business, add value, create customer relationships and increase exposure
Get your hand on the cheapest domain names and hosting plans on the market
Install and customize your own Wordpress website
Select the appropriate theme to fit the business model of your venture
Use plugins, integrations and extensions to create new revenue streams, promote social interactions, improve site speed and enhance overall customer experience
Create and run a blog to attract new customers, boost your brand, rank higher and propell interactions
Design and Publish landing and squeeze pages with a simple drag & drop editor
Populate your site with essential and relevant content & pages

Course content

11 sections • 36 lectures • 4h 10m total length

Who Are We? Why Wordpress? What Can You Expect from This Course?4:56
Meet the team behind I market excel and learn how WordPress powers a flexible online business, from brand building to profitable websites, without coding.
If You Don't Have an Online Business Yet, Now Is the Chance to Create One5:27
Discover how online businesses cut costs by selling digital products and services, including courses and ebooks, and learn to choose a fit and receive online payments from home.
What Kind of Online Business Can You Create?1:00
10 Keys to a Successful Online Business Part 16:32
Uncover the ten key elements of a successful online business, including solving customer problems, identifying the target market, delivering value, and building diverse revenue streams.
10 Keys to a Successful Online Business Part 211:43
Learn to build a successful online business for long-term viability by researching demand with keyword tools and Google Trends, nurturing customer relationships, gathering feedback, and creating a WordPress website.
10 Keys - Printable Version1:00
Online Businesses

45 Minutes from Now, You Will Have Your Own Site!5:48
Choose a domain quickly by selecting a proper name or brandable domain, register with registrars like Name.com, Namecheap, or GoDaddy, and use coupon codes to secure low prices.
The CHEAPEST HOSTING You'll Ever Get ($1 a Month)3:24
Discover cheap hosting options, install WordPress on your domain, and manage bandwidth and space, with plans from as low as $1 per month.
Domain Name Systems - Can't Find Them? I'll Do It for You!4:22
Learn to point your domain to your hosting account by updating DNS name servers, using custom name servers from your hosting, and waiting at least one hour for updates.
From Registrar to Hosting - Manage Your Domains with cPanel6:07
Learn to manage domains in cPanel after updating name servers, add and import domains, create email accounts and subdomains, and configure domain name, subdomain, and document root.
Drop Your @gmail.com - How to Get Your Fancy Email5:42
Create a professional domain email, set up the account, access webmail, and optionally forward messages to Gmail for easy access while you prepare to install WordPress.
Installing Wordpress Only Takes 5 Clicks... Fantastico!12:54
Learn to install WordPress on your domain with a script installer like Fantastico, configure protocol, domain, and site settings, set admin credentials, and access the WordPress dashboard.
Domains, Hosting and cPanel

Welcome to Your Site!3:33
Follow along to install WordPress, access your dashboard, and start tweaking, installing themes, publishing content, and customizing your site so you finish with your own WordPress site by course end.
This is Your Dashboard7:28
Explore the WordPress dashboard and its areas—posts, pages, categories, tags, media, appearance, widgets, menus, plugins, and users—and learn a practical, step-by-step approach to customize your site and manage collaborators.
Settings, Settings and More Settings8:11
Learn how to customize a WordPress site by adjusting general, reading, writing, discussion, and media settings, set a front or static landing page, and manage user roles.
Posts vs Pages: To Use or Not to Use8:20
Learn the key differences between posts and pages in WordPress, with posts offering dynamic, chronological updates to engage audiences, while pages remain static and information-driven.
Settings, Posts and Pages

Every Business Has Its Theme6:41
Explore how to choose the right WordPress theme for your business by navigating categories such as corporate, e-commerce, magazine, and blog, then filter and customize to fit your site.
This Is the Theme I'll Be Using6:11
Discover how to choose a blog-friendly WordPress theme, install a child theme with Genesis framework, and integrate an email opt-in box to grow traffic and course sales.
Download, Upload, Install, Activate5:42
Learn to upload, install, and activate a WordPress theme via the dashboard, including a Genesis framework parent theme and a child theme, and preview site changes.
What Theme Is That?2:27
What WordPress theme is that helps you identify a site's theme by pasting its URL into a theme detector, revealing the theme name, author, and plugins.
Dedicated Options - Each Theme Is a World of Its Own10:53
Customize your WordPress site with the theme's visual editor, adjusting the title, subtitle, header image, colors, and widgets to shape menus and sidebars in real time.
What Do You Know About Themes?

Essential Pages - About Us Page12:17
Learn to build an engaging About Us page in WordPress by formatting text, adding images, and linking courses to explain who you are and what you do.
Permalinks Do Make a Difference4:47
Learn how WordPress permalinks shape your page URLs, improve SEO, and how to set a clean structure such as category plus post name or just post name.
Contact Page - Adding Contact Forms to Pages8:46
Install and activate a contact form plugin, create a form with name, email, subject, and message, configure delivery, add Spanish, then paste the shortcode on the contact page.
Permalinks

Structured Content: Taking Advantage of Categories4:20
Discover how WordPress categories organize posts into menus and sidebars, create and rename categories with slugs and descriptions, assign parents, and plan topics like SEO to save time.
What's on the Menu? Setting Up your Site's Navigation6:31
Build and configure the top navigation in WordPress starting kit by adding pages, links, and categories, arranging hierarchy with submenus, and setting the primary menu for enhanced site navigation.
The World of Tags2:28
Discover how WordPress tags organize posts by using tags with categories, explore taxonomies, and add unlimited tags to help readers browse content easily.
Organizing Your Content

Turn Readers Into LEADS - Complete Lead Capturing Guide13:43
Drag & Drop Your Way to Stunning Lead / Squeeze Pages11:19
Learn to build stunning lead/squeeze pages in WordPress using a drag-and-drop page builder, customize templates and sections, add logos and forms, and integrate with Mailchimp for email capture.
How to Create Separate Landing / Squeeze Pages and Integrate Them Into Your Site6:42
Learn to create effective landing and squeeze pages and integrate them into WordPress using the insta page plugin, with A/B variations, analytics, and publish workflows.

Requirements

You need to know how to read and use a computer and you are good to go

Description

Everyone needs a site. Period.

Whether you have a business or want to build a personal brand, a website is an absolute must if you want to take things to the next level.

The problem with building a website is that it takes time to learn code and/or money to hire someone to do it.

But what if you didn't have to learn a line of code to create your own site?

What if I told you you could have your own site up and running in less than 45 minutes?

We've all heard about Wordpress, but not many of us know how to take full advantage of it.

In this Wordpress course I'm going to teach you how to plan, produce and publish your own site from the ground up. It's not theory, it's action. I will build my brand's iMarket XL website in front of your eyes. Literally.

These are just some of the things you'll watch me do in this course:

Get domains for $0.99 and hosting for as little as $1 a month
Create custom @yourdomain.com email accounts and learn how to forward them to your most used email account.
Install Wordpress
Master the dashboard and customize essential settings
Find the perfect theme for your business and install it
Customize the site until you get the look you want and all elements working properly
Create the basic and essential pages every site needs
Write and publish the perfect viral blog post
Connect the site with social media sites with sharing plugins
Capture visitors' email accounts with built-in opt-in forms
Create a landing page and publish it on Wordpress
Optimize pages with A/B testing
Start making money online

Start taking this course today and have your own website in 45 minutes. Guaranteed. Click Take This Course at the top right of the page and let's get started!

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone with an online business or with the willingness to create one
Anyone who wants to learn how to create a Wordpress site by WATCHING someone create one

Wordpress Starting Kit: Build Your Site From Scratch

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Course Backbone6 lectures • 31min

Your New Site: 45 Minutes from Now.6 lectures • 38min

I Have My Site! Now What Should I Do?4 lectures • 28min

Your Site's Backbone: How to score the perfect appearance5 lectures • 32min

Essential Content for Professional Sites3 lectures • 26min

Structing Wordpress for Better Publishing3 lectures • 13min

The Blog2 lectures • 27min

Social Wordpress - Plugins and Features you NEED to have2 lectures • 16min

Of Leads and Landing Pages3 lectures • 32min

This Is What We Created1 lecture • 6min

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