Last updated 1/2023Course Language EnglishCourse Caption English [Auto]Course Length 09:22:25 to be exact 33745 seconds!Number of Lectures 66
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Design a Beautiful WordPress Website From Start to Finish
Create Your Websites Using the Latest Version of WordPress in 2023
Identify the Best Install Location and Successfully Install WordPress
Learn Proper Planning Techniques for Building a Better WordPress Site
Get Familiar with the WordPress Admin Area & Dashboard
Master WordPress's Block Editor & Site Editor So You'll Never Depend on Coding Again!
Find and Download the Best Plugins for Your WordPress Website to Add Amazing Functionality
Add New Pages and Blog Posts, and Understand the Differences Between Them
Get More Website Traffic From Search Engines With "SEO" Concepts Taught Throughout the Course
Customize Your Website's Colors, Fonts, and Other Styling to Match Your Branding
Learn how to plan, set-up, and design your website using WordPress! This beginner-friendly course will walk you through everything you need to know to get your site up and running, while showing you how to design your website professionally without needing to hire a web developer. The best part? There's no coding required! I show you everything I've learned in my 10+ years using WordPress as a digital storefront for my business. I not only help you decide on the best URL (also known as a "web address") to use for your website, but also show you where and how to purchase your domain URL and install WordPress. I then provide TONS of planning tips and tricks that I've learned throughout the years to help you make better decisions about your website's size, style, and content. In the course, you'll learn:Basic and Advanced WordPress Concepts and TerminologyHow to Download & Install WordPress On a Host (like Siteground or GoDaddy) or On Your Own ComputerProper Planning Techniques to Set Your Site Up for SuccessThe WordPress LayoutThe Site Editor for Designing Templates in WordPress 6.0 and NewerThe Block Editor for Designing WebpagesSetting a Static HomepageHow to Design Important Webpages from Start to Finish, Including:HomepageAbout PagePortfolio Page (Image Gallery)Blog PageContact PageImportant Concepts and Tips for WordPress PluginsHow to Install and Set Up PluginsSEO Tips and Techniques to Help Your Site Get More TrafficUpdates from WordPress 6.1And more!My high-definition, high-quality video lessons ensure you learn the various features and settings found throughout the WordPress layout so that you know your way around the CMS (Content Management System) like the back of your hand. Plus, you'll learn how to create and manage site templates, pages, blog posts, and more.Here's what current students are saying about the course:"I really got a lot out of this course. It was a bit of a refresher for me as i used Wordpress about 10 years ago. The lecturer's voice and the audio in general is very clear and the talking is always relevant to what is happening, no mumbling or going off track. The lectures proceed at a reasonably fast pace, you can of course stop the video occasionally to keep up. The visuals and descriptions are good. You will build a website, step by step alongside the lecturer. I felt I learned quite a bit in terms of using WordPress, using the block editor, creating a website and general knowledge about the whole process. Well worth my time."-Terrance D. | *****"With an engaging delivery, Michael leads wonderfully through this course."-Terry B. | *****"This course was precise and understandable for anyone wanting to learn how to set up a website. Michael is a great instructor and looking forward to seeing the upcoming updates on this course."-Cecily M. | *****If you've always wanted to design your own website from scratch, but never quite knew the steps and never wanted to learn code, this is the perfect course for you! Whether you own a small business, run a side hustle, or simply want a personal website to showcase yourself, WordPress is a great platform for building professional sites in relatively short amount of time. By the time you've finished this course, you'll feel comfortable as you navigate through WordPress and its many useful features. Plus, I integrate my knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) along the way - providing pointers and tips that I've used on client sites and my own sites to get more traffic. These SEO strategies have helped my main site reach 1,000,000 annual site visitors in back-to-back years (2020 and 2021). More site visitors usually leads to higher sales volume, which means more money for you and your business! I've been teaching or implementing SEO best practices for over 10 years, including teaching in-person SEO workshops here in the USA.WordPress is an extremely popular free and open source Content Management System (CMS), and I hope you'll enjoy using it as much as I have over the years! You can ask me any questions you may have as you work through the course. Thanks for your interest in my course, and for those of you who decide to enroll - I'll see you in there!Who this course is for:Beginners of all backgrounds looking to create a website with WordPressNon-coders who want to build a website from scratch with no codingAnyone looking to finally master WordPress to build better websites the proper way
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3 Lectures | 12:08
What is WordPress?
04:38
In this lecture, I start off my WordPress course by defining the all-important question: What is WordPress? Get an introduction to the free and open source CMS for designing and managing websites!
Choosing a WordPress Install Location
06:09
The next step in your WordPress journey is deciding where you'd like to install the WordPress CMS. I cover the three main locations for a website installation: your personal computer, a third-party host, and a third-party server. I also discuss which one I recommend based on your level of technical expertise and other factors like cost and convenience.
Section 1 Glossary of Terms
01:21
This lecture contains terms I used throughout this first section of the course, which you can view at any time for your own reference.
2 Lectures | 17:35
Self-Hosting: Setting Up Your Domain and Database
11:20
If you decide to self-host your WordPress installation on your personal computer, you'll need to set some things up to make sure everything works properly. In this lecture, I walk you through everything you need to know, step-by-step, to accomplish setting up your domain and database.
Self-Hosting: Installing the WordPress CMS
06:15
Now that you have your domain and database set up, you can install the WordPress CMS on your personal computer. I walk you through the process in this lecture, showing you a detailed step-by-step guide to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Self-Hosting WordPress Quiz
5 questions
3 Lectures | 27:38
Choosing the Perfect Domain Name for Your Website
06:28
A domain name is one of the most important features of your website as it's how everyone finds your site. Choosing a domain name requires some thought and important decision making. In this lecture, I cover some important question to ask yourself and answer to ensure you choose a domain name that's right for your site.
How to Install WordPress on a 3rd Party Host
12:58
In this lecture, I cover the process for finding a third-party host to host your WordPress website. I discuss companies I've used in the past as third-party hosts, plus talk about costs and installation.
Connect WordPress Host to an Existing Domain Name
08:12
If you have hosting purchased through one provider, and a domain name through another provider, this video will show you how to connect the two services to properly display your site. I use Siteground and GoDaddy as the service providers for this video.
Third-Party Hosting WordPress Quiz
5 questions
7 Lectures | 21:29
Introduction: 5 Important Questions When Planning Your WordPress Website
01:05
Before you dive in to the process of building your website, it's important to do a little planning ahead of time to make sure you know what it is you want out of your site. Planning will make the overall design process smoother while helping you produce a better website. In this lecture I introduce the 5 questions you should be asking yourself when planning your WordPress site.
Who Is My Target Audience?
02:06
When designing a WordPress website, it's important to understand the people that will be visiting your site. You can then gear your content towards this audience, which will help improve your site's performance and thus the performance of your business. In this lecture, we answer the important question: Who is my target audience?
What Is My Website's Main Goal?
02:06
What is the main goal you'd like your site to accomplish when visitors land on it? Do you want them to purchase a product? View blog posts? Sign up for a newsletter or contact your business? In this lecture, I explore the important planning question: What is the main goal of my site?
What Features Does My Website Need?
04:15
Now that you understand the main goals you want your site to accomplish, you'll need to consider what features your site needs to accomplish these goals. In this lecture, I walk you through the brainstorming process for determining the best features for your WordPress website.
Create Your Own Site Funnel
3 questions
In this assignment, you'll complete the blank sections of the funnel graphic to create your own site funnel.
What Pages Does My Website Need?
04:31
Now that you know the main goals of your site and the features you'll need to accomplish those goals, it's time to figure out what pages you'll need on your site. The right pages can ensure users find the information their looking for, while simultaneously ensuring your business conveys the information it wants to convey. I discuss common pages found on WordPress websites and how to figure out what pages are right for your site.
What Do I Want My Site to Look Like?
06:16
Perhaps the most important planning question of all is, "What do I want my site to look like?" In this lecture, I help you determine the best fonts, colors, and other visual styling elements for your WordPress site to ensure you create a great looking site that matches your branding or vision.
WordPress Planning Review
01:10
In this lecture, I review the best practices we covered throughout the planning section to help you create better websites.
WordPress Planning Quiz
10 questions
Test your knowledge of the best practices and common terminology for planning a WordPress website.
Answer the 5 Planning Questions to Help You Build a Better Website
5 questions
Now that you know the 5 questions to ask yourself when designing a website, it's time to write out your answers to each question for your specific website. Use this assignment to put your ideas to paper, which will help guide you as you build out your site.
5 Lectures | 55:27
How to Draw a Home Page Wireframe
20:40
About Page Wireframe
10:45
Portfolio Page Wireframe
07:26
Blog Page Wireframe
06:55
Contact Page Wireframe
09:41
5 Lectures | 22:53
Logging In to WordPress
01:46
In this lecture I show you how to log in to the back-end of WordPress, which is where you'll be making edits to your site and creating custom designs.
The WordPress Admin Toolbar
09:26
The very first element you'll notice when you login to the backend of your WordPress site is the Admin Toolbar. This feature, located along the top of the WordPress interface, contains several important features for navigating the backend of your site, creating new content, and more.
Adding or Changing Your Admin Profile Photo (Gravatar Image)
01:53
In this WordPress customization lecture, which is a continuation of the WordPress Admin Toolbar lecture, I show you how to change your Gravatar image - which is associated with your WordPress admin account.
The WordPress Admin Area Main Navigation
06:39
In this lecture I cover WordPress's "Main Navigation" for the Admin Area. This feature will be your primary means for navigating around the backend of your site. It allows you to access the various work areas for making general changes to your site (like adding pages, adjusting plugin settings, or customizing your theme). Let's explore this important feature!
WordPress Work Areas
03:09
In this lecture I explain the "work areas" in WordPress. Each page in the backend of the WordPress Admin Area has a work area for performing various functions. For example, the "Pages" work area allows you to view all your site's webpages in a list view, add or remove pages, and edit existing pages. The "Themes" work area lets you view all the downloaded themes for your WordPress CMS. and finally the "Users" work area lets you view user accounts created for your site and edit their settings.
WordPress Layout Quiz
7 questions
Test your knowledge of the different areas and features of the WordPress admin area layout!
9 Lectures | 01:24:44
Adding a New Webpage & Intro to the Block Editor
04:51
In this lecture I show you how to create your first webpage inside of WordPress, plus provide an introduction to the Block Editor. The Block Editor is important because it allows you to add elements to your webpage and style your pages without needing to code.
Block Editor | Top Menu | Part 1
12:12
Block Editor | Top Menu | Part 2
13:39
Block Editor | Page Settings Sidebar | Part 1
11:27
WordPress 6.1: Page Settings Sidebar Updates
02:34
In this article, I discuss the updates made to the Block Editor's Sidebar Settings in WordPress 6.1.1 or newer.
Block Editor | Page Settings Sidebar | Part 2
05:51
Block Editor | Content Area | Inserting Blocks
04:00
Block Editor | Content Area | The Block Toolbar
13:20
Block Editor | Block Settings Sidebar
16:50
In this lecture I discuss the "Settings Sidebar" for the WordPress Block Editor, which contains various settings that allows you to customize your blocks when designing your site.
Block Editor Quiz
10 questions
Put your knowledge of the Block Editor to the test with this quiz!
8 Lectures | 49:42
Site Editor Introduction
02:55
Templates (Introduction)
05:54
Template Parts (Introduction)
03:17
In this lecture I provide an introduction to Template Parts. Common examples of Template Parts include the Header and Footer found in your site's Templates.
Customizing Template Parts (Header)
14:30
Now that you've been introduced to Template Parts, lest dive in to customizing your template parts! I'll show you how to create a custom design for your site's header to match your branding and improve the functionality of this important section of your site.
WordPress 6.1: Navigation Block Updates
03:34
In this lecture, I cover the BRAND NEW navigation block features found in WordPress 6.1!
Styles | Intro to Styles & Typography Styles
08:06
Next up, we'll discuss the "Styles" feature found inside the Site Editor. Styles allow you to set common fonts, colors, and layout characteristics across your site. I'll cover the "Typography" section of Styles for this lecture.
Styles | Color & Layout Styles
06:51
The next features for Styles inside the Site Editor are the "Colors" and "Layout" features. Colors allow you to set site-wide color schemes for easy access while designing your site. You can use colors from your branding guidelines, or simply select colors you like from the available color tools. I then cover the "Layout" section of the site editor.
Styles | Block Styles & Recap
04:35
The last area I'll discuss for the Site Editor is the "Blocks" area for customizing the styles or settings of blocks. Blocks are used to design all the elements of your site and site pages, so this feature is really handy for saving the settings you want to use for commonly used blocks. I then recap the Site Editor to reinforce what you've learned in this lecture.
Site Editor Quiz
10 questions
Test your knowledge of the Site Editor's features with this quiz!
9 Lectures | 01:19:04
Introduction to Homepage Design
02:28
A Homepage is arguably a website's most important page, as it's often the first page site visitors see when landing on your website. In this section of the course, I'll show you how to design your home page from top to bottom, plus show you how to set your homepage to display properly in WordPress.
Homepage Design | Hero Image
13:51
If the Homepage of a website is the most important page, then the "Hero Image" on the homepage is perhaps the most important element of a website. That's because this design element is the first thing people see when they land on your homepage. In this lecture, I show you how to use the WordPress Block Editor (also known as the Gutenberg Editor) to design a full-width hero image with parallax scrolling.
Homepage Design | Services Section
13:12
The next design element for the home page is the "Services" section. For this section, I'll show you how to add multiple columns to a single section. Plus, I show you how to insert images, text, and buttons to your site, and link these elements to the appropriate pages. All using blocks inside the Block Editor and no coding!
Homepage Design | Image Divider
04:36
In this lecture, I show you how to add a simple full-width image divider to separate content on your home page. I also show you how to add a small caption to the image, while showing off more features in the WordPress 6.0 Block Editor.
Homepage Design | Latest Posts & Intro to Adding Blog Posts
14:59
We'll now move on to adding a "Latest Posts" section to the homepage to showcase all the latest blog posts we've published on our site. But, wait, we don't have any blog posts on our site... Aha! I'll also be introducing you to adding posts to your site - a feature that's made WordPress famous over the years.
Homepage Design | Contact Section
06:01
The last design element for the homepage before we reach the footer is the "Contact" section. This section will allow users to easily navigate to the Contact page of our site, where they can email the business or give it a call. I will show you how to design the Contact page in a future lecture.
Set Your Static Homepage
02:26
Since WordPress can act as a blog or a professional website, it comes standard with an option to set your homepage as a "Latest Posts" page or as a "Static" homepage. For traditional websites, it's best to have a static homepage that can be custom designed how you want it. In this lecture, I show you how to set your newly design homepage as a static homepage in WordPress 6.0 (it's a little different than it was in previous versions).
Customize Your Site's Header
06:00
In this lecture, we'll return to the Site Editor by creating a new page template from inside the Block Editor. I'll then show you how to further customize your site's header to remove unwanted default elements like the page title and separator that come with the Twenty Twenty Two theme.
Customize Your Site's Footer
15:31
In this lecture I move on to customizing our site's footer and copyright section from inside our homepage page template using the Site Editor. I show you how to create a footer with multiple columns that include a site logo, page links, latest posts, and a search bar.
WordPress Homepage Design Quiz
10 questions
11 Lectures | 02:19:05
About Page | Designing the Hero Header
09:37
In this lecture we move on from the homepage and begin designing the other pages of our site! I show you how to design an "About" page to tell site visitors about your business or project. I start this series of lectures off by showing you how to design the "Hero Header" for the top of the page using the Block Editor.
About Page | Designing the "Who We Are" Section
04:40
For the next design section on the About Page, I'll be showing you how to create a "Who We Are" section that includes multiple columns, a title, and some text to create a nice separation between the hero header and the "What We Do" section (coming up next).
About Page | Designing the "What We Do" (Services) Section
16:55
In this lecture I show you how to design the "What We Do" section of the page, also called the "Services" section. In this section, we'll be adding a section title and separator along with 3 rows - each containing an image, paragraph text, and a button. You'll learn how to combine many blocks into a group, how to add background colors to individual sections, plus how to duplicate and rearrange entire block groups.
About Page | Using Reusable Blocks to Insert Contact Section
07:45
It's time to cover Reusable Blocks! This handy WordPress 6.0 feature lets you save block areas to reuse at any time throughout your site. Similar to templates, Reusable Blocks will update site-wide when you make a change to any one instance of that Reusable Block. This is handy for saving time when you have the same block setup across multiple pages.
Portfolio Page | Adding Image Galleries to Your Site
25:14
We'll now move on to designing the Portfolio page of our website. This page will contain multiple image galleries that showcase our work. I show you how to add galleries using blocks, plus how to customize your galleries for improved and more consistent styling in your image previews. I also provide SEO tips to help your pageload speed and search rankings improve.
Blog Page | WordPress's Auto-Generated Method
07:24
Did you know that WordPress 6.0 has an auto-generated option for adding a blog page to your website? I cover this method for those of you who want to quickly add a blog feed via a dedicated blog page to your site.
Blog Page | Custom Method | Creating Categories and Tags
09:45
In this lecture I show you how to assign categories and tags to your blog posts in WordPress 6.0. These features allow you to better sort your blogs when using features like the "Latest Posts" block to display posts in certain section of your webpages. Tags provide detailed keywords of what is in your articles, allowing for users to more easily find the posts they're looking for.
Blog Page | Custom Method | Blog Design
20:03
Now that our blog articles have categories and tags, it's time to custom design a blog page! In this lecture, I show you how to create Latest Posts sections based on blog categories, as well as a sidebar that sorts your blogs by keyword. I also show you how to add a "Tag Cloud" block, plus a social media feed.
Contact Page Design | Part 1
17:08
Time to design the last page of our website! In this lecture I show you how to build a contact page from scratch, adding a parallax header, contact info section, and placeholders for a contact form and Google Maps block (we will be installing these features in the "Plugins" section of the course).
Contact Page Design | Part 2
07:11
Time to design the last page of our website! In this lecture I show you how to build a contact page from scratch, adding a parallax header, contact info section, and placeholders for a contact form and Google Maps block (we will be installing these features in the "Plugins" section of the course). This video is Part 2 of 2 for building the Contact page.
Customizing Your Site's Main Navigation
13:23
Now that all of our webpage are designed for our WordPress website, it's time to customize the main navigation so that users can easily navigate to the different pages. I show you how to access the Navigation block for your site's header, plus how to add or remove navigation items, add submenu items, and style the colors of your navigation.
4 Lectures | 52:39
Plugins Introduction
05:37
In this lecture, I provide an introduction to WordPress Plugins! I talk about what plugins are, who makes them, and how they can enhance your website. Plugins add additional features and functionality not found in your default theme. They are a great way to improve your site and give your site visitors what they want. They can also help with your SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, to help you improve your search rankings and get more traffic.
Install & Set Up a Plugin
23:35
Learn how to install and set up a plugin in WordPress 6.0 with this video! I demonstrate the plugin installation process using the popular WP Forms plugin. Plus, I show you how to design a contact form using this plugin's proprietary "Form Builder" feature, and finally show you how to add the form to your contact page.
Update Plugins, Themes, and WordPress
13:43
In this lecture, I show you how to update the plugins and themes installed with WordPress, as well as how to update to the latest version of WordPress.
Add Responsive Google Maps Feature Without a Plugin
09:44
In this lecture, I show you how to add a Google Maps feature to your contact page without using a plugin. I also show you how to make the feature responsive so it looks good on all screen sizes.
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