WordPress & WooCommerce Course: Complete Guide to E-Commerce

Set up local server with Zam to install WordPress on your PC, then go online; use Brave Browser and ensure access for PHP, MySQL, WordPress core, plugins, and themes updates.

Download and install XAMPP on Windows, then start Apache and MySQL from the control panel, and troubleshoot shutdown issues by editing zam control.ini to prevent errors.

Download WordPress from wordpress.org and install locally via the XAMPP control panel; create a phpMyAdmin database, extract files, run the setup, and configure admin credentials.

Learn to log in to a WordPress site via wp-admin, log out, and reset a forgotten password in the WP users table via phpMyAdmin on local server.

Understand WordPress user roles from administrator to subscriber and how to create and manage users through the Users section, including setting roles, display names, emails, and passwords.

Navigate the WordPress admin panel using the left-hand main menu to manage posts, media, pages, comments, appearance, plugins, users, tools, and settings.

Navigate the WordPress dashboard and the welcome screen, using widgets like site health status, quick draft, at a glance, and activity to monitor your site and customize the layout.

Explore the WordPress toolbar to view version details, access documentation and support links, manage comments, and toggle between dashboard and front end while creating posts or media.

Adjust general settings in WordPress, including the site title, tagline, and administration email, and configure WordPress address URL, site address, membership, language, time zone, and date and time formats.

Explore writing settings in WordPress, including default uncategorized posts, changing categories, and viewing post formats. Learn about update services that notify search engines on site changes.

Configure WordPress reading settings to choose home page behavior, set posts per page, and display feed excerpts, while adjusting SEO indexing during development.

Explore WordPress discussion settings, including pingbacks and trackbacks, comment permissions, nested threads, pagination, moderation workflows, and avatars, with guidance to save changes.

Configure media settings to set thumbnail 150x150, medium 300x300, and large 1024x1024 sizes, and enable organize my uploads into month year based folders to store images by date.

Explore how WordPress permalinks (slugs) form URLs, influence SEO, and configure post-name based URLs via permalink settings, including category and tag bases, then save changes.

Explore WordPress privacy settings to protect user data by building a comprehensive privacy page, using the privacy guide, and adding a terms and conditions page before launching your site.

Choose and manage WordPress themes to customize your site's look, using the theme directory to preview, filter by features, and install or delete themes.

Choose a WordPress theme by weighing free and premium options from trusted sources. Install from directory or upload, activate, back up before updates, and check change log and compatibility.

Set up your brand on WordPress by choosing a color palette, fonts, and global styles using the full site editor, with the 2024 default theme and typography options.

Learn to add and customize a brand logo in WordPress, ensuring it appears in the header, footer, and favicon, then adjust size and spacing in the default theme header.

Create a global navigation bar in WordPress using block themes by editing the header, adding pages, custom links, and submenus, then save to apply site-wide.

Create a global WordPress footer with blocks, add a subscription call to action, customize colors and typography, and save changes to reveal the footer on all pages.

Create a new WordPress page using multiple methods, including home, about, and contact pages, set the title, content blocks, templates, and visibility options, then preview and publish.

Navigate the WordPress dashboard to manage pages, customize the pages list with screen options and view modes, and edit, bulk edit, or trash pages for an e-commerce site.

Create a new post in WordPress and learn how posts differ from pages. Use the dashboard to add content, set visibility, schedule, assign categories and tags, set url, and publish.

Organize and manage your WordPress posts from the dashboard, view all posts, filter by status, and use quick edit, screen options, and bulk actions to publish or trash.

Organize WordPress content with categories and tags to classify posts, create hierarchical categories like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and assign posts while preserving the uncategorized fallback.

Assign a featured image to posts and pages to create social media previews. Upload or select an image, add alt text, and set or replace the image before updating.

Learn how to build a custom home page in WordPress by displaying posts in a grid, setting a static home page, and adding a subscribe section and footer.

Explore how to add and customize blocks in WordPress to build pages, including paragraphs, buttons, and alignment, using the block library and forward slash shortcuts.

Learn to manage the WordPress media library, optimize uploads to avoid slowdowns, switch between thumbnail and list views, filter and search media, and add metadata for better SEO.