
Discover flexible WordPress pathways for live or local development, with guidance on projects, themes, and scheduling to build a custom site and gain valuable skills.
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Explore how the internet works, define servers, hosting, domains, and IP addresses, and get an introduction to WordPress and why it powers over 35 percent of websites.
Set up your computer to build a WordPress site offline using Local, creating a mini local server for faster development.
Install Local by Flywheel on Mac to develop a WordPress site offline, create a Move Rest Repeat project, and learn how to start, trust, and admin login to the site.
Set up your SiteGround hosting, select the start-up WordPress plan, and register or point your domain to begin building your WordPress site.
Learn to log into a WordPress site from both local development and live servers, using the admin route or wp-login.php, secure your credentials, and securely log out after work.
Explore the WordPress dashboard, noting the toolbar, left navigation, and work area. Understand how previews, updates, and new content appear, and how posts, media, and settings are organized.
Explore how WordPress manages media with the media library, enabling easy upload, filtering, and search by name, plus captions, descriptions, and alt text for accessibility.
Plan your website like a house: establish a clear structure with a homepage, linked content, and easy navigation. A thoughtful plan saves time and keeps visitors from getting lost.
Create a practical site map by listing content, consolidating into pages, and linking them to support your site's purpose and guide visitors.
Sketch your site layout on paper, gather logos, fonts, photos, videos, and content assets, and draw inspiration from other sites to craft a compelling, content-first visual design.
Create a coming soon page in WordPress using a page builder, building sections, columns, and widgets on a canvas, then add a logo, heading, body text, and responsive design.
Build real web pages, starting with the about page. Create a sample about page with a full width header, clean layout, and responsive design for tablets and mobile devices.
Duplicate the top section to build the about page biography, add founder text and photo, adjust the header and column layout, and preview upcoming layout concepts.
Learn how to use margin and padding to create space in web page layouts. Adjust top and bottom spacing, unlink values, and apply negative margins for precise, responsive design.
Master responsive design for the about page by adjusting header typography and padding for desktop, tablet, and mobile. Learn to control element visibility and layout changes across devices.
Save header and two-column sections as templates to speed page building, using custom css to outline header text and reuse page banners and sections on future pages.
Set up a contact page in WordPress by applying saved templates from the about page, customize the header and image gallery, and build a two-column content layout with Elementor.
Apply responsive design adjustments to the contact page across tablet and mobile. Set a global button style to ensure consistent site-wide branding in WordPress in a weekend.
Wordpress in a Weekend! It’s not too good to be true, YOU CAN build a custom site using Wordpress.
In this course, I’ll take you from beginner to confident site builder in no time and you’ll be able to build a custom site completely from scratch!
No experience necessary! If you have a computer and access to the Internet, you can learn Wordpress!
Course Structure
In this course, we’ll start with the basics. How the Internet and websites work, and how to setup your personal computer or a server to run Wordpress. Then we’ll dive into Wordpress and learn our way around before jumping into the most exciting part of the course, a step-by-step build of a gorgeous, professional, fully responsive website designed to incorporate all of the skills you’ll need to know in order to build virtually anything you can imagine!
What You’ll Learn
I’ve distilled my 10+ years of building with Wordpress into a concise curriculum designed to teach you everything you need to know about building websites with Wordpress, and nothing you don’t! You’ll learn:
Core Wordpress concepts, including posts, pages, menus, themes, and plugins.
How to use the amazingly powerful ELEMENTOR PAGE BUILDER to design faster and easier.
How to create and incorporate beautiful design elements including forms, buttons, images, animations and more.
Optimize your custom website with responsive design to look great on computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
How to setup a dynamic blog using categories and tags to organize your content.
How to find a domain, setup hosting, and publish your website for the world to see.