WordPress Tutorial for Beginners (2024) – How To Get Started

WordPress Tutorial for Beginners (2024)

A Complete Beginners Guide to WordPress.

I’ve personally been using WordPress for over 10 years, at this point.

And I decided to create this WordPress tutorial for complete beginners, to show you how to get started with WordPress.

In this course, I cover exactly how to build a basic WordPress website, in less than 60 minutes.

The website will also be 100% mobile friendly (responsive).

Which means, it’s going to look awesome on any device (mobile, tablet, etc)

You don’t need to have ANY previous experience or web design skills, either.

I will guide you through the process, step by step, in a way anyone should be able to follow.

What’s Covered

• Setting up a domain name and web hosting

• Installing WordPress

• Removing demo WordPress plugins

• Installing a WordPress theme (GeneratePress)

• Changing the website title and tagline (slogan)

• Adding a logo

• Adding a site icon (favicon)

• Changing the website colors

• Changing the website typography (fonts)

• Creating a WordPress menu (adding pages)

• Assigning a home page

• Adding content to pages (text, headings, bullet lists, images)

• Adding clickable links

• Updating WordPress email address

• Installing a WordPress plugin

• Creating a contact form using WPForms (free plugin)

• Adding contact form to website

• Hiding page titles

• Removing demo sidebar content

• Adding content to WordPress sidebar (heading, text, images)

There are also a few other bits and pieces covered throughout the course, but these are the main things you will learn.

And don’t worry if any of this stuff sounds confusing, by the way.

It’s all a lot easier than you may think!

Why Take This Course?

• It has been created for complete beginners (easy to follow).

• It is 100% FREE to enrol (and always will be)

• All lectures are available in Ultra HD (4k resolution).

• All lectures are downloadable.

So, if you want to build a website using WordPress.

Enrol now for free, and let’s get started!

Previous Course Reviews

Below are some reviews from a previous course of mine (just so you know what to expect).

Susan M Tharp

★★★★★

I loved this course!!! It is very practical. You can put it to use right away. Learning to navigate through the WordPress interface was great!!

Shammim Shaik

★★★★★

Course is great for a beginner it helped me a lot. Thank you

Nicola Williams

★★★★★

Great intro course for learning the basics of WordPress!

Diane Dunwoodie

★★★★★

Great WordPress introductory course, easy to follow, to the point – awesome! Thank you Martie Dread!!

Ashok singh

★★★★★

This is really helpful and good for beginner, thank u.

Eraldo Guri

★★★★★

Very helpful, thank you.

Dharma Prakash

★★★★★

Awesome.

Pieter Marx

★★★★★

Simply yet effective course I love it, Thanks.

Yehuda Siboni

★★★★★

Thank you.

Juan Ferrera

★★★★★

Great and easy to understand.

Abdelkabir Houmari

★★★★★

I have learnt many technical elements which will help me surely to go ahead and build a new business website thanx.

Sandeep Kumar

★★★★★

Best crash course for complete beginners…Thanks Martie!

Olga Kwiatko

★★★★★

Great tutorial!

The reviews (above) are only A FEW of the 5 star reviews I have received. I literally have THOUSANDS of reviews just like this on my other courses.

Rating Distribution

• 1 stars: 0 votes
• 2 stars: 0 votes
• 3 stars: 1 votes
• 4 stars: 3 votes
• 5 stars: 12 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!