WordPress Basics for Beginners

WordPress Basics for Beginners, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.5, with 21 lectures, based on 765 reviews, and has 21989 subscribers.

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You will learn about You will know about the WordPress CMS You will be able to turn a simple wordpress blog into a professional looking website This course is ideal for individuals who are Web development beginners It is particularly useful for Web development beginners.

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Summary

Title: WordPress Basics for Beginners

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.5

Number of Lectures: 21

Number of Published Lectures: 19

Number of Curriculum Items: 21

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 19

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will know about the WordPress CMS

You will be able to turn a simple wordpress blog into a professional looking website

Who Should Attend

Web development beginners

Target Audiences

Web development beginners

This course covers all the bare bone basics of the WordPress CMS platform. You will learn about the basics and how to quickly turn a simple blog into a professional looking website. I covered all the major aspects in simple terms without any technical jargon. You can easily catch up and perform all the complicated stuff with a click of a button.

WordPress CMS Basics is aimed for the beginners who are getting started in self hosted WP platform. If you want to do it yourself or you want to get hired help, this course is for you get started.

This course has a total of 19 videos which teaches you all about,

Difference between posts and pages and which one to use in which case

WordPress editor overview

How to put your website under maintenance when you do not want other people to see it while you are working on it

How to chose a beautiful looking template/design to your website with a click of a button

Making WordPress look less like a blog and more like a standard website, so you can use it for your business purposes

Using the export/import function to move articles from another blog to yours

Setting up the WordPress navigation menu and adding new menu items

How to update the WP version

Additionally I have also covered some of the advances tricks like,

Handling SPAM comments and trackback

Adding a custom contact form in your website

Embedding third party You-Tube videos

Changing the WordPress permalink structure for usability

Inserting images, media, widgets and some other bonus materials

On average this course will take around 1-2 hours to complete and after completing this course you will know all the core basic features of a WordPress powered website.

You can also ask me questions about the course through the discussion area. I will be happy to answer them. I will also add new and updated videos with your feedback.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: What are the differences between Posts & Pages in WordPress?

Lecture 2: Overview of the wordpress post/page editor

Lecture 3: How to take your site offline from visitors/Make it under construction mode

Chapter 2: Working with WordPress

Lecture 1: Setup a beautiful design/selecting a theme for your site

Lecture 2: Make your website look more like a website and less like a blog page

Lecture 3: How to setup a seperate blog page for your website

Lecture 4: How to copy content from one site to another using the WordPress export-import

Lecture 5: How to setup the navigation menu of WordPress

Lecture 6: How to update the WordPress Version

Chapter 3: Taking it to the next level

Lecture 1: How to handle spam comments with Akismet plug-in

Lecture 2: Contact form 1 – Adding a contact form into your site

Lecture 3: Contact form 2 – Adding an extra field in your contact form

Lecture 4: Contact form 3 – Adding a word verification box in your contact form

Lecture 5: How to embed YouTube videos on your WordPress site

Lecture 6: 3 ways to insert an images in your site

Lecture 7: How to add or remove widgets from your website

Lecture 8: How to change page permalinks structure of wordpress

Chapter 4: Bonus materials

Lecture 1: How to use FTP or File Transfer Protocol to access your web server files

Lecture 2: Changing file permissions (CHMOD) of certain files through FTP

Instructors

Tamal Anwar Chowdhury
Software Engineer & Developer Advocate

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1 stars: 22 votes

2 stars: 45 votes

3 stars: 161 votes

4 stars: 274 votes

5 stars: 263 votes

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