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The Complete WordPress Guide for Beginners - 2022

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Overview

** One of the most comprehensive WordPress courses you will ever take **

Build your very own website with this complete WordPress course - no experience, programming, or coding necessary!

Are you looking to build your WordPress website for personal use or maybe even for your business?

This course is perfect for you. This complete course is designed for beginners like you who have never built a WordPress website (or any website for that matter). You are going to learn how to use WordPress to build your website and best of all WordPress is FREE and you do not need to write any code to achieve this.

2 Courses in 1

I know that there are two main reasons why people want to have their website. it's either they want to have a blog where they can write or share their opinion about a subject or they have a business and they want a website to promote the business. Either way I have got you covered .

What skills are you going to learn in this course?

Okay you already know you will learn how to build a full website but to be more specific, here are some of the skills you will learn

  • Install WordPress either locally on your computer or live on the internet

  • Install SSL encryption on your website

  • Choose the right web hosting company

  • Create a professional web mail account

  • Work with themes and how to choose the right one

  • Configure a wide variety of WordPress plugins

  • Create and edit image galleries

  • Publish content with pages and posts

  • Create user accounts

  • Create privacy and policy pages

  • Integrate social media functionality into your website

  • Build your mailing list using Mailchimp

  • Back up your WordPress website in case of emergency.

  • Optimize your website so that it is noticed by Google, Bing and other major search engines

  • Set up comments and contact pages

  • Prevent spam comments

  • Speed up your website with caching plugins.

  • Export and Import content

  • Protect your website against hackers and malware

  • and much much more :-)

PLUGINS YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO WORK WITH:

Plugins are programs that you can use to enhance both the functionality and design of your website and in this course you will learn how to work with the following plugins

  • Akismet

  • Happy Forms

  • Word Fence Security

  • Social Buttons by Adder

  • Optin Forms

  • WPS Hide Login

  • Cookie Notice for GDPR

  • Recent Posts Extended Widget

  • Monster Insights

  • Rank Math

  • Smush

  • UpDraft Plus

  • Gutenberg Editor

Why learn from me?

Unlike a lot of other instructors with WordPress courses I am a real WordPress developer. I have been building websites with WordPress for almost 9 years now and during this time I have built hundreds of websites including some for very popular institutions like Johns Hopkins University.  I love WordPress!  and I am also passionate about teaching people how to use this wonderful tool.

Who is this WordPress course for?

This course is perfect for anyone who has never built a website before. Its for individuals who want to build a website either for personal reasons or for their business but do not have any programming experience.

I can't wait to help you build your own WordPress website!

Enroll today and let me teach you how to build your WordPress website.

Alex aka 'The Web Monkey'

Syllabus

  • WordPress for Beginners Promo
  • WordPress vs WordPress
  • Introduction to Domains and Web Hosting
  • Buying Hosting and Domain Names
  • Installing WordPress Quickly
  • Installing WordPress Locally with Local
  • The WordPress Backend
  • WordPress General Settings
  • Pages vs Posts
  • Creating a Page
  • Cateogries vs Tags
  • The Media Library
  • Creating our First Post
  • Introduction to the Admin Bar
  • Editing your Profile Account
  • WordPress User Roles
  • Working with Images
  • The Gutenberg Page Builder
  • Assingment Create 7 WordPress Posts
  • WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Plugins
  • Widgets and Sidebars
  • Choosing our Theme
  • Setting up the HomePage
  • Creating the Main Menu
  • Building the Header Part 1
  • Building the Header Part 2
  • Building the Footer
  • Styling the Footer
  • The GetWid Addon Plugin
  • Building the Home Page Part 1
  • Building the Home Page Part 2
  • Building the Homepage Part 3
  • Adding an Instagram Block
  • Setting up the Blog Page
  • Setting up the Post Pages
  • Adding Social Share Function
  • Creating our Contact Form
  • Setting up the Contact Page
  • Creating a MailChimp Account
  • Creating our Mailing List
  • Contact List Tips and Finishing Touches
  • Quick Update
  • A Simple Trick to fool Hackers
  • Site Health and Updates
  • Fighting against Spam
  • How to Hide the Default Login URL
  • WordFence Security Plugin Part 1
  • WordFence Security Plugin Part 2
  • Optimzing Content for SEO
  • Adding Google Analytivs with Monster Insights
  • Adding the Cookie Notice
  • Creating the Privacy and Policy Page
  • Creating an FTP Account
  • Accessing our Web Directory
  • How to Back up a WordPress Website
  • Beginners WordPress Course Conclusion
  • Rank Math Introduction
  • Rankmath Installation
  • General Settings
  • Tiles and Meta Part 1
  • Titles and Meta Part 2
  • 404 Redirections
  • SEO Analysis
  • Status and Tools
  • Google Search Console
  • Optimizing our Content
  • Bulk Edit Tool
  • Optimizing Content with Rank Math
  • WordPress 5

Taught by

Alexander Oni

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