WordPress Web Development Course For Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: What is WordPress – How to install WordPress

Lecture 1: What is WordPress

Lecture 2: WordPress vs WordPress – Which one is the right one?

Lecture 3: Install WordPress on your local server 1 – Downloading MAMP

Lecture 4: Install WordPress on your local server 2 – Installing MAMP

Lecture 5: Install WordPress on your local server 3 – Creating Your Database

Lecture 6: Install WordPress on your local server 4 – Download and Install WordPress

Lecture 7: Install WordPress on your Local server using LocalWP – Part 1

Lecture 8: Install WordPress on your Local server using LocalWP – Part 2

Lecture 9: What is a domain and web hosting and how to set it up

Lecture 10: How To Install WordPress on your hosting using cPanel

Chapter 3: Getting to know your WordPress Admin Section / Back End

Lecture 1: Section 2 Introduction and WordPress Admin Overview

Lecture 2: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Posts Tab

Lecture 3: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Media Tab

Lecture 4: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Pages Tab

Lecture 5: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Comments Tab

Lecture 6: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Appearance Tab

Lecture 7: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Plugins Tab

Lecture 8: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Users Tab

Lecture 9: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Tools Tab

Lecture 10: WordPress Admin Section Overview – Settings Tab and end of Section 2

Chapter 4: Developing your website using a choice of different themes and plugins

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 3 and getting your WordPress ready for development

Lecture 2: How to increase your Max Upload File Size

Lecture 3: Where to find royalty free images and how to compress them

Lecture 4: Uploading a Logo and Site Icon

Lecture 5: Creating a Post

Lecture 6: Recap on Posts and Comments in more detail

Lecture 7: Creating Pages

Lecture 8: Setting your "Home" and "Posts" page and creating a menu

Lecture 9: Creating a contact page

Lecture 10: Adding a Contact Form

Lecture 11: Customizing your site appearance using the standard WordPress Customizer options

Lecture 12: Installing Themes

Lecture 13: Customizing the Astra Theme – Global Option

Lecture 14: Customizing the Astra Theme – Header Builder Option

Lecture 15: Customizing the Astra Theme – Breadcrumb and Blog Options

Lecture 16: Customizing the Astra Theme – Sidebar Option

Lecture 17: Customizing the Astra Theme – Footer Builder Option

Lecture 18: Adding additional pages and buttons with internal links

Lecture 19: Alternative Contact Form – WP Forms

Lecture 20: Alternative Contact Form – Ninja Forms

Lecture 21: Alternative Contact Form – Bit Form

Chapter 5: Elementor Page Builder

Lecture 1: Introduction to Section 4

Lecture 2: Installing Elementor Page Builder and additional add-on plugins for Elementor

Lecture 3: Redesigning Home Page to become an Elementor Page

Lecture 4: Recreating Posts with Elementor

Lecture 5: How to create a template in Elementor to reuse when creating new posts or pages

Lecture 6: Quick Recap on all Posts redesigned to be Elementor Posts

Lecture 7: How to use Elementor and Premium Addon Plugin to create a custom Blog page

Lecture 8: How to make a page a sub menu item

Lecture 9: Creating an internally linked page not displayed on your menu

Lecture 10: Building a custom Header with Elementor

Lecture 11: Building a custom Footer with Elementor

Lecture 12: Changing Themes to the Hello Elementor Theme

Lecture 13: Build Your Own Sidebar with Elementor standard features

Lecture 14: How to backup and create an export of your site the right way

Lecture 15: How to import your site onto your live server

Lecture 16: Extra Lecture 1 – How to speed up the performance of your WordPress website

Lecture 17: Extra Lecture 2 – How to import demo websites / starter templates

Chapter 6: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture