Description
You’re here because you want to create your own WordPress websites, right? This is the perfect place to start. This complete course is designed for beginners like you who have never built a WordPress website (or any website for that matter). WordPress is the perfect tool for creating a fully customized website for any purpose. Whether you want to create a blog, a personal portfolio, or a business website to sell your products and services, you can do it with WordPress.While WordPress might seem scary from the outside, once you get started, it’s fairly intuitive. Everything from hosting to installing a theme, then actually building your first pages can be learned in the first few lessons of this course.With this course, you don’t need to actually pay for hosting to practice with WordPress. I’ll show you how to create a free temporary site so you can follow along.
COURSE CONTENT:
You will learn how to build your own beautiful website using WordPress.
You will learn how to design your WordPress website the way you imagine.
You will be able to customize your WordPress website for any purpose of yours – whether it’s a blog, a portfolio to show off your work, or an e-commerce site to sell your products or services.
You will learn how to host and publish your website in an inexpensive and secure way.
You will know how to design pages, menus, sidebars, footers, and create a professional and modern website.
You will know how to find and install themes.
You will know how to find and install plugins.
You will know how to back up your WordPress website in case of emergency.
You will know how to get your website found by search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
You will know how to set up email opt-in forms throughout your website.
You will know how to increase social sharing of your posts and pages with free plugins.
You will know how to set up comments and contact pages, while blocking spam.
You will know how to speed up your website with caching plugins.
You will know how to make your website secure and protected from hackers.
You will know how to set up a membership and / or e-commerce site.
DESIGN A SITE THAT WORKS FOR YOU:
No matter what your goal is with your WordPress website, I want to make sure you’re able to achieve those goals. That’s what I promise to help you out with.
PLUGINS YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:
JetPack
Google Analyticator
Google Analytics Dashboard
Backup Buddy
BackUp WordPres
VaultPress
All in One SEO Pack
Yoast SEO
Google XML Sitemaps
W3 Total Cache
WP Super Cache
SumoMe
MailPoet
Optin Monster
LeadPages
OptimizePress
Share by SumoMe
Floating Social Icons
Akismet
Disqus
Contact Form 7
Fast Secure Contact Forms
PrettyLink
Redirection
Editorial Calendar
Sucuri
WordFence Security
many more!
Who is this WordPress course for?
This course is for anyone brand new to creating WordPress websites. If you have never built a website before, great. If you’ve built a website on another platform like Wix, Weebly, GoDaddy, or others, that’s fine too. This course is not for people trying to learn to code a custom Website. In this course, we’ll learn how to use the thousands of themes and plugins already out there to design our own custom websites.
Who is the target audience?
You are someone who wants to build a website for your business, hobby, or personal life.
You want a website that can be fully customized, but done so easily.
You want someone to walk you through the entire process of creating a WordPress website from the very beginning to publishing.
You also want help designing a website that works, that is modern, and the viewers will love.
You are NOT someone who wants to build your own custom WordPress themes (this is not a WordPress development course)
Requirements
You don’t need any experience with WordPress or with building a website.
You will need a working computer and a modern browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
You will need internet access to watch the lessons online, or can download them on your computer for playback.
You don’t need any experience with programming languages like HTML or CSS.
You don’t need to purchase hosting or pay for anything to follow along and practice building a website yourself. I’ll show you in the course how to practice building a WordPress website for free.
