Skillshare - The Complete WordPress Guide for Beginners - 2021

Are you looking to build your WordPress website for personal use or maybe even for your business?
This course is perfect for you. This complete course is designed for beginners like you who have never built a WordPress website (or any website for that matter). You are going to learn how to use WordPress to build your website and best of all WordPress is FREE and you do not need to write any code to achieve this.
2 Courses in 1
Iknow that there are two main reasons why people want to have their website. it's either they want to have a blog where they can write or share their opinion about a subject or they have a business and they want a website to promote the business. Either way Ihave got you covered .
What skills are you going to learn in this course?
Okay you already know you will learn how to build a full website but to be more specific, here are some of the skills you will learn
Install WordPress either locally on your computer or live on the internet
Install SSL encryption on your website
Choose the right web hosting company
Create a professional web mail account
Work with themes and how to choose the right one
Configure a wide variety of WordPress plugins
Create and edit image galleries
Publish content with pages and posts
Create user accounts
Create privacy and policy pages
Integrate social media functionality into your website
Build your mailing list using Mailchimp
Back up your WordPress website in case of emergency.
Optimize your website so that it is noticed by Google, Bing and other major search engines
Set up comments and contact pages
Prevent spam comments
Speed up your website with caching plugins.
Export and Import content
Protect your website against hackers and malware
and much much more :-)
PLUGINS YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO WORK WITH:
Plugins are programs that you can use to enhance both the functionality and design of your website and in this course you will learn how to work with the following plugins
Akismet
Happy Forms
Word Fence Security
Social Buttons by Adder
Optin Forms
WPSHide Login
Cookie Notice for GDPR
Recent Posts Extended Widget
Monster Insights
Rank Math
Smush
UpDraft Plus
Gutenberg Editor
Why learn from me?
Unlike a lot of other instructors with WordPress courses Iam a real WordPress developer. Ihave been building websites with WordPress for almost 9 years now and during this time Ihave built hundreds of websites including some for very popular institutions like Johns Hopkins University. I love WordPress! and Iam also passionate about teaching people how to use this wonderful tool.
Who is this WordPress course for?
This course is perfect for anyone who has never built a website before. Its for individuals who want to build a website either for personal reasons or for their business but do not have any programming experience.
I can't wait to help you build your own WordPress website!
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