Blogging with WordPress

Full overview

This lesson introduces you to WordPress and the sites available for creation. You’ll learn basic functionality of WordPress sites along with the hosting options available for your site.

This lesson guides you through the process of choosing a web address for your site. You’ll create your own WordPress.com account and learn about the WordPress.com online community.

This lesson guides you through the process of preparing your WordPress site for hosting and the hosting options available. You’ll work with Autoinstallers to automate processes in addition to techniques and tools for site maintenance.

Now that your site is created and hosted you will begin creating, adding, and organizing posts for your WordPress site. You learn how to use the Dashboard feature to save time and effort when creating posts.

This lesson introduces WordPress theme. You learn how to add themes to your site, customize them to your preferences, add widgets, and chose new themes when you’re ready to redesign your site.

This lesson teaches you how to enhance your posts with things like photos and other media. The Media Library function is covered in addition to options for customizing the way your posts are displayed to your site visitors.

In addition to creating posts for your WordPress site, you can add pages to enhance organization and navigation for your content. Creating menus for your site is covered in addition to customizing your Home page.

This lesson covers managing comments which includes the option to allow comments or not, how to keep the conversation going among your site visitors, and how to prevent spam comments.

This lesson covers how to use plug-ins with your WordPress site to enhance the experience of site visitors on mobile devices, automate site backups, and enhance site performance with caching.

This lesson will teach you how to embed code into your WordPress site to add photos, video and music to your site.

This lesson teaches you how to add multiple collaborators and manage their editing permissions. You learn how to create a private community and manage a network of sites.

This lesson teaches you techniques for increasing engagement from your site visitors by encouraging your readers to share your site on social media, search engine optimization, and utilizing site statistics.

This lesson covers WordPress themes which allow you to customize your site. You’ll learn how to edit the style of your theme and how to use code to optimize and protect your theme.

The final lesson will guide you through advanced ways to build customization into your WordPress site including adding categories, products and ecommerce capabilities.

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