The WordPress course is separated into 12 lessons. Each lesson teaches a specific WordPress skill. If you’re new to WordPress, don’t worry we will take you through the course at your own pace. If you already know a thing or two about WordPress, you can quickly jump to any topic you need help with. You can ask any specific questions you have.

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A really simple WordPress course. By the time you’re through you’ll have a WordPress site up and running on your own web hosting account and you’ll be well on your way to creating a professional website.

Lesson 1: Essentials before starting WordPress

• Finding a Web Host for Your WordPress Site
• Buying a domain and updating nameservers
• Different between HTTP and HTTPS – encrypt
• Advantage of having a SLS certificate
• Installing xampp
• How to use cpanel – what is public.html and root directory
• Best method of saving files/ file name/ no space
• Creating webmail
• Updating php version
• What is cache

Lesson 2: Start WordPress

• Installing WordPress through c-panel
• Installing WordPress using FTP
• Getting to Know the WordPress Dashboard
• Different between WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com
• WordPress Posts vs. Pages: differentiate them
• Setup Your User profile/ add users and functions of users
• How to install the classic editor
• Disable toolbar
• Publish Your Post/ page
• Screen Option

Lesson 3: Organizing WordPress Content

• Quick editor/ change date of the post/ page
• Value of Revision and edit revision in wp-config.php file
• How to create WordPress Categories and Tags and use them
• How To Create Custom Menus and Custom links and  publish them
• How to appoint primary menu and create sub menu – menu location
• custom CSS
• what are backend and frontend

Lesson 4: Working with Media

WordPress isn’t just for words. You can use it to publish photos, videos, and podcasts too. This module shows you how to add media with ease.

• How to Use the WordPress Media Library
• Add Images to a Post/ Page
• Create a Photo Gallery
• Add Audio and Video (embed) to Posts
• Add a PDF Download
• Add a slideshow to the front page
• How to optimize images for better SEO
• How to name images for SEO
• Where is your theme and plugins in PUBLIC.html

Lesson 5: Customizing Your WordPress Site

These lessons will show you how to customize your theme and spruce up your site with widgets and plugins. By the time you’re done, you’ll have set your site apart from the masses.

• How to Use WordPress Themes/ Install in theme
• Customize Your WordPress Theme
• How to find WordPress Plugins and activate them and delete them
• How to Use WordPress Widgets and delete unnecessary widgets
• How to create a child theme

Lesson 6: Getting Conversational Learn how to facilitate conversations, moderate comments, and prevent comment SPAM.

• Managing WordPress Comments
• Create a blog in subdirectory for SEO purposes
• How to add Recaptcha
• How to block spam comments
• Block spam i.p. addresses

Lesson 7: WordPress Site Management

These lessons guide you through the essential maintenance steps that ensure your site remains happy and healthy.

• Upgrading WordPress
• How to get a backup and how to restore  your backup using a duplicator

Lesson 8: WordPress Settings. This series of lessons will help you tame your settings and fine-tune your site.

• WordPress General Settings
• WordPress Writing Settings
• WordPress Reading Settings
• WordPress Discussion Settings
• WordPress Media Settings
• How to Use WordPress Permalinks – human-friendly URLs
• Privacy page

Lesson 9: Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Plugins/ files

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-meta-tags/
• Contact form 7 https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/ – how to configure a contact form and add it to the website
• How to publish your site in Google and Bing
• How to create a sitemap
• Learn about the robots.txt file
• Learn about .htaccess file

Lesson 10: Choosing correct plugins:

• Paid and Free plugins
• Making forms by using plugins
• For better editing
• Slideshow plugins

Lesson 11: Final steps to take care of your websites

• Finding WordPress core files/ take a backup before editing
• Editing footer.php
• Editing style.css
• What is SEO
• How to save images for SEO
• How to write content for SEO

Lesson 12: Beyond your WordPress but what you cannot do without it

• How to use a FTP
• How to use Cpanel
• Create a user name and password for FTP using Cpanel
• How to create web-based email address and how to check them
• How to create a database, user name, and password
• Getting rid of unwanted plugins and themes
• What is a page builder – choosing the best page builder

Final lesson – Tailor-made

• Multilingual sites
• Security settings