Course Information
Course Overview
Learn how to create, manage, and update your own website using Wordpress.
Every day, more and more people and businesses are turning to WordPress to quickly create websites, blogs, and online stores. In this series, Craig Campbell teaches you how to build and theme an entire website using the popular content management system. This course is designed for the absolute beginner, meaning no experience with WordPress or web design and development is required. You will start by learning how to download and install WordPress, then jump into learning the basic WordPress settings. From there, Craig shows you how to manage content in WordPress, including inserting and editing images, inserting videos, and building a custom home page, posts page, and image gallery.
This video tutorial also covers WordPress themes, plugins, and how to customize your theme. You will also learn how to manage users, including creating new users, editing and deleting users, and editing your own profile. Finally, Craig will show you how to go live, including finding a host, backing up your site, and updating the database. Once you have completed this computer based training course, you will be fully capable of creating and designing your own WordPress website.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 75 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Getting Started With WordPress
- Section 2 Installing WordPress
- Section 3 Basic WordPress Settings
- Section 4 Content Management In WordPress
- Section 5 WordPress Themes
- Section 6 What Is A Plugin?
- Section 7 Managing Users
- Section 8 Customizing Your Theme
- Section 9 Going Live
- Section 10 Conclusion
What You’ll Learn
- install Wordpress remotely and host on local machines.
- manage and modify a Wordpress-based website to fit specific needs.
- keep a website up to date with blog posts and media.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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PPaul D Slegaitis
A little out of date but the information is still valid. Does a nice job presenting the information. A must have course for the beginner.
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ssewdelite@gmail.com Coomes
This instructor is one of my favorite. His teaching skills are wonderful. I literally blossom when I tune into his courses.
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LLori Ward
This is really helpful. The fact that it is 6 years old makes a difference in some of the information, but I'm still learning a lot.
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SSimon Xenitellis
excellent overview of wordpress ! Tips on plugins were invaluable.Overall excellent course,that needs to be followed with examples of building websites with Wordpress.Later on,customization of themes....