WordPress and the Divi Theme: Create your first website

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Course

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Course

Lecture 2: About WordPress and the Divi Theme

Lecture 3: Demo Website for the Course

Chapter 2: Setup & Install WordPress on your computer

Lecture 1: Why work on your computer?

Lecture 2: Setup Local in your computer

Lecture 3: Create your first site with Local

Chapter 3: Setting up the Divi Theme

Lecture 1: Installing the Divi theme

Lecture 2: Importing a pre-made Divi Layout

Lecture 3: A Tour of the Visual builder

Lecture 4: Making a “Coming Soon” page

Lecture 5: Assignment 1: Make your second WordPress site in Local

Chapter 4: Development – Site Header & Footer

Lecture 1: Viewing the design in Figma

Lecture 2: Developing a custom header with the Divi Builder

Lecture 3: Developing a custom footer with the Divi Builder

Lecture 4: Adding an Instagram section to your footer

Lecture 5: Assignment 2: Create 3 blog posts with a Featured Image each

Lecture 6: Assignment 3: Create a custom header and footer in your test site

Chapter 5: Development – About Page

Lecture 1: Creating the hero section of the page

Lecture 2: Adding titles and content to the page

Lecture 3: Adding a sidebar and widgets to the about page

Lecture 4: Assignment 4: Adding widgets to your sidebar

Chapter 6: Development – Contact Page

Lecture 1: Creating and using forms in Divi

Lecture 2: Using the Email Optin module in Divi

Lecture 3: Assignment 5: Connect your Email Optin form to your email provider

Chapter 7: Development – The Home Page

Lecture 1: Adding and configuring a Post slider with Divi

Lecture 2: Using the Blog module to add your posts

Lecture 3: Creating a sidebar with widgets

Lecture 4: Using free plugins to add functionality to your site

Lecture 5: Assignment 6: Research plugins & add email optin to sidebar

Chapter 8: Level Up (Optional)

Lecture 1: Changing the hovers on the social media icons

Lecture 2: About CSS and Divi

Lecture 3: Making the date in recent posts a different color

Lecture 4: Formatting the read more button in the homepage

Lecture 5: Adapting your designs to mobile & tablet view

Chapter 9: Publishing your site online

Lecture 1: Testing your site before publication

Lecture 2: What you need to have a website in the internet

Lecture 3: Getting a domain name with Namecheap

Lecture 4: Getting web hosting with Dreamhost

Lecture 5: Preparing your hosting for migration

Lecture 6: Migrating your site with WPVivid

Lecture 7: Assignment 7: Test site & Share your site with friends and family!

Chapter 10: Conclusion & What’s Next

Lecture 1: Course summary

Lecture 2: What’s Next

Lecture 3: Bonus Lecture