This online course teaches the basics of building a website. It is aimed at people unfamiliar with WordPress, someone who has never built a website, or who has a WordPress website and is struggling to understand how it works.
Course cost: $5/£5. You don’t have to pay, but it enables more courses to be created. Thanks!
Course Contents in Detail
1: 6 ways to make money from your site or blog
- Discover the different ways you can make money online
2: Where to start? Blogging platforms
- Blogging platforms – what are your choices?
- WordPress vs other CMS
- Pros and cons of wordpress.com vs self hosted (.org)
3: Get a website in 5 mins! Step by step guide
- Sign up with wordpress.com
- Step by step guide to setting up your free website
4: Log in to WordPress and use the dashboard
- How to log in to the WordPress admin interface
- What’s on the dashboard?
- Configure the screen options
- Set the website title and tagline
5: WordPress posts and pages – What’s the difference?
- What is a post?
- What is a page?
- Posts vs Pages – Which should you use?
6: Create posts for your website
- Create a post and set the title
- Add text, set styles, insert links
- Prepare images
- Add images, format images
- Add text, set styles, insert links
- Publish a post
7: Create pages for your website – Add them to menus
- How to edit a page
- How to create new pages
- How to add pages to menus
8: Customise the theme – make your site look great!
- How to customise the theme
- Add a header
- Change the font
- Set featured images in articles
9: Find and install new themes – give your site a makeover
- Browse the theme gallery
- Preview themes and customise them
- Activate a theme
10: Add widgets to your WordPress site and configure them
- What are widgets?
- Add a widget to the sidebar
- Customise a widget
11: Customise the settings for your WordPress site
- Important General settings
- Customise the Reading settings – static page vs posts
- Take control of Comments and spam
