Welcome to the course
- Tools You Need For This Course
- Introduction
- Important! Download the course materials (.zip file)
- Website Hosting
Set yourself up with a domain name and hosting for your site
- Get a domain and webhosting plan
- More options for webhosting
- Set up your domain name and hosting plan
Manage your site with Cpanel and the WordPress administrator panel
- How to log in to Cpanel
- Create a subdomain
- Install wordpress
- Login to your wordpress administrator pannel
- About passwords and accounts
- How to change your admin username and password
Start creating the mock site for this course. The site is called "Home Fitness"
- Install the Customizr theme
- Donate to Customizr developers
- Pick your site's colours and write your tagline
- Insert text and an image into your page
- Features of WordPress "word processor"
- Upload images to your media library
- Create a "static page" - this is wordpress jargon for a simple webpage
- Link to any page of your site
- Add more static pages
- Create a navigation menu
- Create a submenu
- Assign a submenu to a page
- Set your front page
Create a features images section
- Resize your images with Pixlr
- Choose your featured pages
Create an image slider for your site
- The Slider: an introduction
- Resize images for your slider
- Upload your slider images from computer to Wordpress media library
- Configure your slider
Create content on your site
- Add social media icons to your site
- Customize your fonts
- Install Google fonts plugin for unlimited font customization!
- Create a contact form
- Recaptcha: validate that the person writing to you is human and not a robot
- Delete the About sample page
- How to leave your front page blank
- Assign a posts page to display your blog posts in a thumbnail gallery
- Publish your first blog post
- Create an image gallery
- Edit your image gallery
- Social media sharing - Let your visitors share your content on Facebook, Twitter
- Social media sharing: the "more" button
- Discussion settings
- Categorize your blog posts
- Add your blog posts to one or more categories
Learn how to customize the layout of your sidebars and footer
- Choose your sidebar layout
- Add sidebar widgets
- Front page layout
- Customize the layout of your post and pages
- Breadcrumbs - wordpress leaves trail so you can find your way back
- Footer widgets
- Footer area 2
- Footer area 3
Create a custom logo
- Create and upload a custom logo
- Replace the site title with your custom logo
Create an email signup form and a lead magnet
- Introduction to email signup forms
- Create a "thank you" page
- Setup your Mailchimp account
- Download these plugins
- Connect Mailchimp to Wordpress
- Finalize your Email signup form
Elementor: An Awesome Free Page Builder Plugin
- Elementor page builder intro
- Install Elementor
- Explore the possibilities of Elementor
- Add a new section
- Clone anything
- Add your new page to nav bar
