How to create a blog using WordPress

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome

Lecture 1: Introduction with more information

Lecture 2: Recommended Web Hosting

Lecture 3: Introduction and a warm welcome

Lecture 4: Just For WordPress beginners

Chapter 2: First part about Hosting – Getting Web Hosting out of the way

Lecture 1: Web Hosting

Lecture 2: 4. Just a little bit more and Hosting

Lecture 3: 5. How to buy a domain name

Lecture 4: 6. How to buy Web Hosting

Lecture 5: 7. Adding NameServers to your domain – linking your domain with a web host

Lecture 6: 8. Then assign your domain to your Web Host

Chapter 3: Second part about Hosting – How to use and do stuff

Lecture 1: 9. CPanel Crash Course

Lecture 2: 10. Cpanel popup preview – Just a follow up

Lecture 3: 11. The theme

Lecture 4: 12 Creating the Sub-Domain in my case

Lecture 5: 13. Installing WordPress on your Web Host / Domain

Lecture 6: 14. Redirect WordPress to home page

Chapter 4: WordPress House Keeping post installation

Lecture 1: 15. About the video blog

Lecture 2: 16. Update WordPress and take it live

Lecture 3: 17. Setting up pretty permalinks in WordPress

Lecture 4: 18. Installing the theme

Lecture 5: 19. Rename the WordPress theme folder

Chapter 5: WordPress Post and Spam

Lecture 1: Update : How to add posts WP 5

Lecture 2: Activate Akismet

Chapter 6: Child theme

Lecture 1: 23 Changing Website favicon

Lecture 2: 24 Uploading child theme

Lecture 3: 25 Adding Header Image / logo

Lecture 4: 26. After Installation Theme preview

Lecture 5: 27. Add Social Media Links

Chapter 7: JetPack fueling up

Lecture 1: 28. Activating JetPack

Lecture 2: 29. Setting up Jetpack publicize to share to social media

Chapter 8: Working on the sidebar

Lecture 1: 30. WordPress sidebar – editing Widgets

Lecture 2: 31. Correcting sidebar Widget error

Lecture 3: 32 Adding Text Widget on the sidebar

Lecture 4: 33 Adding a Posts slider on the footer

Chapter 9: Securing your WordPress blog

Lecture 1: 34 Installing WordFence

Lecture 2: 35 Improving WP security with WordFence

Chapter 10: Improve your WordPress blog's SEO

Lecture 1: 36 Installing Yoast SEO

Lecture 2: 37 Using Yoast SEO to boost SEO

Lecture 3: 38 Understand JetPack Stats

Chapter 11: Email Marketing Section

Lecture 1: 39 Mailchimp email newsletters intro one

Lecture 2: 40 It's the new year Intro for MailChimp

Lecture 3: 41 Log into Mailchimp and create a new list

Lecture 4: 42 Edit Our MailChimp form

Lecture 5: 43 Get The MailChimp embed code

Lecture 6: 44 Into the Cpanel again

Lecture 7: 45 Embed MailChimp form

Lecture 8: 46 Displaying the mailChimp signup form on all posts

Chapter 12: Style the MC Sign Up form

Lecture 1: 47 Style the MailChimp form

Lecture 2: 48 Continuing to style the form

Lecture 3: 49 AntispamBee and JetPack comments aren't friends

Lecture 4: 50 Clearfix Mailchimp add

Lecture 5: 51 Add email sign up on the footer

Chapter 13: Speed up WordPress

Lecture 1: 52 WP Speed up – Cache and GTmetrix

Chapter 14: Edit Footer

Lecture 1: 53 Edit Footer.php links

Lecture 2: 54 Footer code as changed

Chapter 15: Some Pages Edits

Lecture 1: 55 Delete, Create and add signup form on page

Lecture 2: 56 Edit page for future

Lecture 3: 57 Add a simple Contact page

Lecture 4: 58 Add an about page

Lecture 5: 59 Dealing with the menu

Lecture 6: 60 JetPack related posts

Chapter 16: Concluded

Lecture 1: first Conclusion

Lecture 2: 62 Final conclusion

Chapter 17: UPDATES

Lecture 1: New in WordPress – Links, widgets and auto-update plugins

Lecture 2: Here are the Web Hosts that I recommend