Learn essential WordPress tips and tricks to enhance your website, drive traffic, and increase sales without complex programming, saving time and money.
This course is all about leveling up your WordPress skills! You’ll discover easy tips, tweaks, and tools to enhance your website, boost traffic, and attract customers, all without getting into complicated programming. Perfect for DIYers and webmasters alike!
Supercharge Any Website With These Inside Tips, Tweaks and Tools For WordPress That Drive Traffic and Attract Customers
Have you ever tried to build or enhance a website to grow your business? Have you spent lots of time learning WordPress, how to work with plug-ins, and how to tweak your website to boost traffic and sales, only to have it produce lackluster results? Have web designers quoted you a price tag of several thousand dollars just to build it for you?
With this Wordpress Tips and Tricks course you can learn How to Increase Website Traffic, which tips, tweaks, and tools you can use, without complicated programming, to boost your WordPress website and transform it into a traffic magnet -- in less time, with less money, and with a lot less effort.
Which plug-ins create the best results
How to tweak your plug-ins to maximize your site's selling power
How to work with themes and templates to optimize your site's attraction potential
And how to avoid common errors committed by WordPress designers.
This Wordpress Tips and Tricks course will take you through top essential and nice-to-have plug-ins, including admin, SEO, security, layout, usability, social, and even multimedia plug-ins. It will also dive into how to work with themes and templates, and how to tweak them a lot more efficiently.
Also, this course will show you how to tweak the look-and-feel of your website using styles, graphics, and design "tricks." It will reveal some shortcuts using copy-and-paste-simple snippets of code, as well as a number of quick-and-dirty online tools and resources -- many of which are free.
This course is for:
Do-it-yourselfers who know the basics of WordPress and want to know how to take it to the next level.
Hired webmasters or web designers who want to improve their skills to bring much greater value to their clients.
Web site owners who don't know the technical stuff but want to be sure their web people make the right decisions.
This course is not for:
Uber-Geeks who are looking for advanced coding skills. (You can certainly learn a lot from this course, but you may get bored.)
Complete newbie who don't have any knowledge of WordPress. (You would get more out of this course if you first took a WordPress Basics course, then came back to upgrade your education.)
This course is meant for people who don't want to get involved with heavy programming, but want to learn How to Increase Website Traffic, tweak their WordPress websites and discover powerful shortcuts to enhance their online business or blog.
This Wordpress Tips and Tricks course by developer Michel Fortin will give you a new perspective on how to optimize and ramp up your website for maximum traffic, stickiness, and conversion.
Students will walk away with a better understanding of WordPress strategies and inside tips they can apply immediately to improve the results from their business website.
These strategies can be applied to corporate websites, ecommerce sites, blogs, content sites, or sales pages - as long as they are built on WordPress.
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I'm a marketing consultant and business coach with extensive experience in marketing strategy, digital marketing, marketing communications, and web development. Focusing primarily on entrepreneurial professionals and skill-based entrepreneurs, I help my clients grow their businesses by improving their visibility, driving demand, raising conversions, removing bottlenecks, and increasing revenues.For the better part of 30 years, I've pioneered successful marketing strategies that...
If you're looking for a quick summary then this course has excellent information as long as you're somewhat knowledgeable about WordPress and comfortable making coding tweaks; even then the list of plug-ins is very valuable.
This course isn't meant for hardcore WordPress developers and if that's you then you won't find a lot here (you'll generally find it too simple and basic), and if you are just beginning with WordPress or even if you've used WordPress for years but rarely do more than create a blog post then you may be overwhelmed and find it "too techie" -- although the plug-in lessons should be understandable to most and useful.
But, if you're in the sweet spot, I can guarantee you'll discover some great, and tremendously useful, techniques, methods, plug-ins and information.
This course is essentially a series of webinars that were recorded live in front of a webinar audience and then broken up into individual lessons.
What I liked
It was very "look over the shoulder", hands-on stuff, so instead of just telling you things, Michel actually showed you how to do things, why and when you'd want to do them (or wouldn't want to do them), and showed some of the potential mistakes you might make.
The list of plug-ins and the run through of each of them was enlightening and, even though I thought I knew a lot, I discovered many gems both in the plug-ins and in interesting ways to use the plug-ins. Michel goes through every recommended plug-in explaining what it's for, how to use it, why to use it and shows specific examples when appropriate.
I liked the way the webinar question and answer sessions were done and presented.
I liked the genial, informal, and friendly teaching style Michel uses and that, while he is clearly an expert in this topic, there was never a hint of the superior attitude that so many experts fall into and that impedes the transfer of knowledge and hinders learning.
What I didn't like
Since these were webinars that were split into lessons, I found several things I didn't like:
1. Some of the lessons, particularly at the beginning were so short that it seemed that a lesson had barely started before it was time to do all the clicking necessary to start the next one.
2. A few of the lessons cut off in mid-sentence, while a few others had "dead air" at the end of them.
3. There was a lot of hands-on live demonstrations but many times the screen was so small it was hard to read and particularly hard getting the Web addresses (URLs) of many of the sites was difficult without a "stop, rewind and replay" a few times each -- a callout on the videos with the URL would be nice like was done at the beginning. Also, a few times what Michel was showing was off the screen so you couldn't see them.
4. The list of plug-ins reviewed dragged on a little too long, cutting that down would have allowed more time for other things and more depth on some of the more complex things.
You'll notice that not many of the things I didn't like about the course had anything to do with the content of the course.
Michel well exceeded my expectations and the course was well worth the time I invested in it.
I certainly look forward to more courses from the Licorice Group and Michel Fortin.
FYI, and as an aside to udemy, I tried viewing the course in a 800x600 browser and the UI elements overlapped and made some of the UI links unclickable until I made the browser screen bigger. This happened on the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome using the standard font sizes.
I am only 23 Lectures in on this 147 Lecture course.
I love how each topic is broken down into chunks that allowd me to learn and implement it right then and there. It will be so much easier to come back to a "specific topic" and re-watch just that topic when I run into something on a website that I need to utilize from what Michel has taught.
I have learned so much and can't wait to take my websites (and my customers' websites) to a whole new level...and save so much time by implementing the things Michel is teaching in this course.
Can't wait to finish the rest of this course...but I wanted to take a moment and give encouragement to anyone thinking of purchasing this course...IT IS AWESOME...and you won't be disappointed. I promise it will be money very well spent that you will recover over and over again in the time saving techniques he teaches you in this course!
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Pamela Miles
CalorieConfusion.com
This has got to be the premier WordPress Course out there. Michel goes into great dept sharing his secret tools and resources. I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to really get the most out of their WordPress sites.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
Josef Mack
Excellent bank of resources that is very well explained. Lots of proven websites and plugins that certainly took you years to find and master. Tips, tricks and short cuts practical, simple and fast to apply.
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Kevin R.
I found this course so useful and well written and easy to understand. Highly recommended