WordPress CMS Basics
Udemy
Course Summary
This course features all the bare bone basics of the wordpress CMS.
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Course Description
This course covers all the bare bone basics of the WordPress CMS platform. You will learn about the basics and how to quickly turn a simple blog into a professional looking website. I covered all the major aspects in simple terms without any technical jargon. You can easily catch up and perform all the complicated stuff with a click of a button. WordPress CMS Basics is aimed for the beginners who are getting started in self hosted WP platform. If you want to do it yourself or you want to get hired help, this course is for you get started. This course has a total of 19 videos which teaches you all about,
- Difference between posts and pages and which one to use in which case
- WordPress editor overview
- How to put your website under maintenance when you do not want other people to see it while you are working on it
- How to chose a beautiful looking template/design to your website with a click of a button
- Making WordPress look less like a blog and more like a standard website, so you can use it for your business purposes
- Using the export/import function to move articles from another blog to yours
- Setting up the WordPress navigation menu and adding new menu items
- How to update the WP version
- Handling SPAM comments and trackback
- Adding a custom contact form in your website
- Embedding third party You-Tube videos
- Changing the WordPress permalink structure for usability
- Inserting images, media, widgets and some other bonus materials
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Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- What are the differences between Posts & Pages in WordPress?
- Overview of the wordpress post/page editor
- How to take your site offline from visitors/Make it under construction mode
- Working with Wordpress
- Setup a beautiful design/selecting a theme for your site
- Make your website look more like a website and less like a blog page
- How to setup a seperate blog page for your website
- How to copy content from one site to another using the WordPress export-import
- How to setup the navigation menu of Wordpress
- How to update the Wordpress Version
- Taking it to the next level
- How to handle spam comments with Akismet plug-in
- Contact form 1 - Adding a contact form into your site
- Contact form 2 - Adding an extra field in your contact form
- Contact form 3 - Adding a word verification box in your contact form
- How to embed YouTube videos on your WordPress site
- 3 ways to insert an images in your site
- How to add or remove widgets from your website
- How to change page permalinks structure of wordpress
- Bonus materials
- How to use FTP or File Transfer Protocol to access your web server files
- Changing file permissions (CHMOD) of certain files through FTP