Customizr – Learn WordPress with the ultimate creative theme

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to the course

Lecture 1: Tools You Need For This Course

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Important! Download the course materials (.zip file)

Lecture 4: Website Hosting

Chapter 2: Set yourself up with a domain name and hosting for your site

Lecture 1: Get a domain and webhosting plan

Lecture 2: More options for webhosting

Lecture 3: Set up your domain name and hosting plan

Chapter 3: Manage your site with Cpanel and the WordPress administrator panel

Lecture 1: How to log in to Cpanel

Lecture 2: Create a subdomain

Lecture 3: Install wordpress

Lecture 4: Login to your wordpress administrator pannel

Lecture 5: About passwords and accounts

Lecture 6: How to change your admin username and password

Chapter 4: Start creating the mock site for this course. The site is called "Home Fitness"

Lecture 1: Install the Customizr theme

Lecture 2: Donate to Customizr developers

Lecture 3: Pick your site's colours and write your tagline

Lecture 4: Insert text and an image into your page

Lecture 5: Features of WordPress "word processor"

Lecture 6: Upload images to your media library

Lecture 7: Create a "static page" – this is wordpress jargon for a simple webpage

Lecture 8: Link to any page of your site

Lecture 9: Add more static pages

Lecture 10: Create a navigation menu

Lecture 11: Create a submenu

Lecture 12: Assign a submenu to a page

Lecture 13: Set your front page

Chapter 5: Create a features images section

Lecture 1: Resize your images with Pixlr

Lecture 2: Choose your featured pages

Chapter 6: Create an image slider for your site

Lecture 1: The Slider: an introduction

Lecture 2: Resize images for your slider

Lecture 3: Upload your slider images from computer to WordPress media library

Lecture 4: Configure your slider

Chapter 7: Create content on your site

Lecture 1: Add social media icons to your site

Lecture 2: Customize your fonts

Lecture 3: Install Google fonts plugin for unlimited font customization!

Lecture 4: Create a contact form

Lecture 5: Recaptcha: validate that the person writing to you is human and not a robot

Lecture 6: Delete the About sample page

Lecture 7: How to leave your front page blank

Lecture 8: Assign a posts page to display your blog posts in a thumbnail gallery

Lecture 9: Publish your first blog post

Lecture 10: Create an image gallery

Lecture 11: Edit your image gallery

Lecture 12: Social media sharing – Let your visitors share your content on Facebook, Twitter

Lecture 13: Social media sharing: the "more" button

Lecture 14: Discussion settings

Lecture 15: Categorize your blog posts

Lecture 16: Add your blog posts to one or more categories

Chapter 8: Learn how to customize the layout of your sidebars and footer

Lecture 1: Choose your sidebar layout

Lecture 2: Add sidebar widgets

Lecture 3: Front page layout

Lecture 4: Customize the layout of your post and pages

Lecture 5: Breadcrumbs – wordpress leaves trail so you can find your way back

Lecture 6: Footer widgets

Lecture 7: Footer area 2

Lecture 8: Footer area 3

Chapter 9: Create a custom logo

Lecture 1: Create and upload a custom logo

Lecture 2: Replace the site title with your custom logo

Chapter 10: Create an email signup form and a lead magnet

Lecture 1: Introduction to email signup forms

Lecture 2: Create a "thank you" page

Lecture 3: Setup your Mailchimp account

Lecture 4: Download these plugins

Lecture 5: Connect Mailchimp to WordPress

Lecture 6: Finalize your Email signup form

Chapter 11: Elementor: An Awesome Free Page Builder Plugin

Lecture 1: Elementor page builder intro

Lecture 2: Install Elementor

Lecture 3: Explore the possibilities of Elementor

Lecture 4: Add a new section

Lecture 5: Clone anything

Lecture 6: Add your new page to nav bar