WordPress for Beginners
Welcome to WordPress for Beginners !
The WordPress for Beginners Guide shows you how to setup and create a complete site using WordPress. This is an easy to follow, simple and straight forward guide that takes you through the process of creating a complete, fully functional and professional website, for any purpose, as a beginner using WordPress.
Even if you don’t have or know how to obtain a domain name, I show you how to go from step 1 of getting a domain name, all the way to going live with an easy to manage, great looking complete site using WordPress.
In this extensive, very easy to follow step-by-step wordpress for beginners guide you’ll learn:
- How to setup and configure a domain name
- How to setup and configure a hosting account
- How to install and setup WordPress
- How to customize WordPress into a fully functional website
- How to use Plugins in WordPress to enhance your sites capabilities
- What each setting in WordPress is for and how to configure the settings to make your site work exactly how you want it to
- How to thoroughly test your new WordPress site and fix issues
- Going Live with WordPress and your site
This guide is broken down into four (4) easy to digest sections, each with several videos where I take you step by step through the entire process of setting up a website using WordPress. The course is designed with the WordPress beginner in mind, but I also cover some sections for the total domain and website novice, showing you every step in creating a domain name, hosting, and all the steps to installing and setting up WordPress and customizing it to your liking.
This is a “point and click” course, meaning you won’t be learning complicated HTML or PHP coding, but rather an approach that anyone can master, no matter your experience level. You can know nothing about setting up a website and within a couple hours have a beautiful and fully functioning website up and running.
If you are a beginner to WordPress or even domains/hosting and website creation, you’ll benefit from this course immensely.
If you’re looking for a simple, step-by-step, beginner’s guide to setting up a website or WordPress, than this is definitely the course for you.
This quick intro to WordPress for Beginners lets you know who I am and what to expect as you begin this WordPress course.
Module 1 - Domain Name
In this first WordPress for Beginners video we cover how to obtain a domain name, the first necessity to setting up your WordPress site. In this video I'll show you how to setup a domain name using Godaddy, however you'll find a link in the resources of this Lecture where you can get domain names at really good discounts.
In this WordPress for Beginners video you'll learn what settings you need to modify for your new registered domain and how to modify them appropriately for this course. Once you have your domain configured we'll talk about hosting for your new WordPress site.
Module 2 - Hosting
In this WordPress for Beginners video we cover how to setup a hosting account step by step...another prerequisite to getting your own WordPress install setup. To get the 52% discount discussed in this video, you'll need to enter the code found in the Resources PDF, it won't work without it.
In this WordPress training video I'll show you what settings you need to adjust or change inside your hosting account and how to add your domain name to your hosting account so everything works properly in preparation of your WordPress install.
Module 3 - WordPress for Beginners: Install & Setup
In this WordPress for Beginners video we do a first install of WordPress and I show you all the steps to a clean and proper install of WordPress.
In this WordPress for Beginners video I'll go through all the settings available in WordPress and briefly talk about what each does and how it interacts with your new WordPress site.
In this WordPress for Beginners video we continue with the WordPress settings and navigation.
Module 4 - WordPress for Beginners: Theme Basics
In this WordPress for Beginners video we will go over the steps to selecting and installing a wordpress theme to your WordPress site.
In this WordPress for Beginners video we cover the basics of how to customize the overall look, functionality and feel of the new WordPress site through your theme and WordPress settings.
Module 5 - WordPress for Beginners: Basic WordPress Content Management
In this WordPress for Beginners video we will begin to cover how to create, organize and manage the content of your site within WordPress. Including pages, video/images, posts, categories, etc.
In this WordPress for Beginners video we continue to cover content management within your WordPress Dashboard.
Module 6 - WordPress for Beginners: Basic WordPress Plugin Management
In this WordPress for Beginners video we discuss WordPress plugins, how to install, configure, and utilize WordPress plugins within your wordpress site to enhance it's functions and capabilities.
In this WordPress for Beginners video we'll go over testing the entire WordPress install, site, cleaning up any issues found within the WordPress dashboard or on your actual WordPress site, and more before going live with your new install of WordPress.
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