WordPress For Beginners

A complete beginners training course for learning to build a blog using WordPress

Last updated 10/2013

English

What you'll learn

10 sections • 34 lectures • 3h 50m total length

Getting Started4:16
Name Servers - How to point your domain over to your hosting account.
WordPress Introduction4:48
Installing: How to install WordPress into a folder with only a few clicks.
Dashboard5:42
Dashboard: A quick overview of the dashboard and how you can change layouts.
Fixing WP Settings6:37
Settings: Understanding the settings menu and making a few key changes.
Frontend Overview5:37
Frontend: Explains how the pubic facing side blog is to the user.

Post & Pages1:29
Posts & Pages Explained: Examples of posts and pages and how you should use them.
First Post6:51
First Post: Making your first post to your blog.
Categories6:16
Categories: A selection of some of the best free and paid themes I use. We look at other sites and take the free one and install them.
Tags5:32
Tags: Explain what tags are and how they enhance posts.
Editing Content7:53
Adding Example Content: We look at some sample content on the blog and make it more user friendly.

Building Contact Forms11:53
Contact Forms: How to build simple contact forms making it easy for customers to contact you.
Users7:37
Users: How to add/edit users and have administrators on your blog.
Profile Images6:35
Profile Images: How to change your profile images and link it to your email so the images shows on any WordPress blog when you comment.
Tools5:49
Tools: The tools menu explained and how you might use it when making a backup of posts.
Linking Pages4:35
Linking pages: How to hyper link pages and post together with a few clicks.
Restoring Posts & Page Content3:56
Restoring Posts: How to restore a previous post after you make changes.

Adding Google Analytics7:45
How to add Google Analytics to your site. This is a MUST step so you can track how people are finding your content, what keywords they are searching for and other important data about traffic.
Static Home Pages5:33
Turn your blog into a website by making the home page use a static page and then have the blog content appear on another page. This is useful if you want to have a "web site" feel.
Adding YouTube Videos1:19
How to simply add video from your YouTube account to your blog posts and pages.
Ideas For Getting Web Traffic12:06
In this video David shows a simple way you can generate web traffic using the content you already produce in presentations or articles.

This course is designed to help beginners build a blog with WordPress. It will take about 4-5 hours to complete fully.

The training video are screencasts where it's like looking over my shoulder and watch me build a blog from scratch.

I guarantee you will have an excellent understanding about WordPress after you complete this.

The course is all my own work and part of my latest training DVD. If you have any questions before you start then simply drop me an email.

This is for beginners who have never used WordPress. It's good to have a domain and hosting so you can follow along.