WordPress: From Zero to Hero Webmaster
Udemy
Course Summary
Set Up your first WordPress Site and Improve the Layout and the Functionality.
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Course Description
All freelancers and business owners need their own website. You may have heard that quite often, and in most cases, this good advice comes with a quite high price tag.
The Instructor is a Web-Developer who  builds and modifies websites for clients using WordPress: "When I realized that people are paying me a lot of money, to add more functionality to their sites or to change their layout, I asked myself, how many people could use WordPress for themselves, if they don't need all these special features and designs."
As a small business, you want to be found on the internet by the popular search engines like Google? Sure, you can do that, if you your address into some online directory or on Facebook.Â
This is a step in the right direction, but the layout and the content that you can add are quite restricted.
This class will show you, how you can set up your own website for free. You will need to get some paid web hosting later, but you can get started with some free hosting, to follow all the steps in this class.
You will also learn, why I decided to use WordPress for this class, why WordPress is so special and why you can use it for free.
You don't need to have any technical knowledge, to follow this class. If you can watch this video, you already have all what is needed: A computer and access to the internet.
After you have installed your WordPress site, you want to improve the design and the functionality.
You will learn how to select a theme and essential plugins that you will need to make your site more appealing.
Anatomy of a website.
How to get a theme for your site.
How to get plugins for your site.
How to handle updates.
How to set up pages.
How to set up posts.
How to adjust the layout of your site.
How to add a contact page with contact form.
How to add a Google map.
How to set up an about-us page with the team plugin.
How to add social buttons to link to your social sites.
How to add share buttons to your posts, so that users can share your content.
How to set up a sidebar widget for a MailChimp mailing list.
How to add a Photo Gallery.
How to add a Photo Slider.
How to add watermarks to your images.
How to backup and restore your WordPress site.