WordPress for Beginners

Learn to create a complete website using WordPress with this beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide. No prior experience needed.

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Brief Summary

This course is a friendly, step-by-step guide to help beginners create a professional-looking website using WordPress. From setting up a domain to customizing your site, it covers all the essentials without any techy jargon. Perfect for anyone looking to jump into website creation!

Key Points

  • Step-by-step guide for beginners
  • Setting up a domain name and hosting
  • Installing and customizing WordPress
  • Using plugins to enhance website functionality
  • Going live with your WordPress site

Learning Outcomes

  • Create and configure a fully functional WordPress website from scratch
  • Understand how to set up WordPress in a hosting account
  • Grasp the settings in WordPress for optimal site performance
  • Feel confident using plugins to boost your website's features
  • Know how to troubleshoot and test your WordPress site

About This Course

A WordPress for beginners complete, easy to follow, step by step guide to creating a complete website using WordPress.

Welcome to WordPress for Beginners !

The WordPress for Beginners Guide shows you how to setup and create a complete site using WordPress. This is an easy to follow, simple and straight forward guide that takes you through the process of creating a complete, fully functional and professional website, for any purpose, as a beginner using WordPress.

Even if you don't have or know how to obtain a domain name, I show you how to go from step 1 of getting a domain name, all the way to going live with an easy to manage, great looking complete site using WordPress.

In this extensive, very easy to follow step-by-step wordpress for beginners guide you'll learn:

  • How to setup and configure a domain name

  • How to setup and configure a hosting account

  • How to install and setup WordPress

  • How to customize WordPress into a fully functional website

  • How to use Plugins in WordPress to enhance your sites capabilities

  • What each setting in WordPress is for and how to configure the settings to make your site work exactly how you want it to

  • How to thoroughly test your new WordPress site and fix issues

  • Going Live with WordPress and your site

This guide is broken down into four (4) easy to digest sections, each with several videos where I take you step by step through the entire process of setting up a website using WordPress. The course is designed with the WordPress beginner in mind, but I also cover some sections for the total domain and website novice, showing you every step in creating a domain name, hosting, and all the steps to installing and setting up WordPress and customizing it to your liking.

This is a "point and click" course, meaning you won't be learning complicated HTML or PHP coding, but rather an approach that anyone can master, no matter your experience level. You can know nothing about setting up a website and within a couple hours have a beautiful and fully functioning website up and running.

If you are a beginner to WordPress or even domains/hosting and website creation, you'll benefit from this course immensely.

If you're looking for a simple, step-by-step, beginner's guide to setting up a website or WordPress, than this is definitely the course for you.

  • You will be able to create and configure a fully functional WordPress driven website from scratch

  • You will have a thorough understanding of how to setup WordPress within your hosting account

  • You will have a thorough understanding of WordPress settings

Course Curriculum

1 Lectures

2 Lectures

2 Lectures

2 Lectures

Instructor

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John Westbrook

I'm a poet and a writer, and truly an artist at heart. I've always had a knack for figuring out technical things however, and have held several jobs as a technology consultant.Since 2009 I've run a consulting firm in Chattanooga TN helping small businesses implement and leverage technology and the web. In 2005 I became involved in Internet Marketing, successfully...

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4.9 course rating
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James T.
1.0
1 year ago

Outdated! It lead me down a path not intended.

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Andrew C.
5.0
5 years ago

Yes, I think so. I am in IT and most of this seems rudimentary, but then, it is a beginners course, and there is always something we don't know, so it added confidence to my understanding.

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Nick M.
5.0
5 years ago

It was great. Direct and clear but wasn't too long. Contained solid information without fluff or non essential information.

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Jay C.
5.0
5 years ago

This was exactly what I needed. I appreciated the in-depth review of the various settings in WordPress. I've taken other courses on WP and each instructor brings his/her own view to the course so hearing and seeing different perspectives allows me to get a full picture and see the various possibilities in using WP for my websites.

Thank you, John. You're a great instructor. I'll look for more of your courses.

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Daniel K.
5.0
6 years ago

Because so far, this course has been very informational and I expect to be ready to start my business at the end of this course. I love it so far!!!!

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James L.
4.0
6 years ago

Close. I have an existing web site that I'm working with, so learning about how to get a domain and to host is interesting background for me, but not exactly on the mark of what I need to learn.

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David S.
2.0
6 years ago

Very little in the way of specifics as in the functions of Plugins and how to add audio, and video to a WordPress site.

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Julia D.
3.0
6 years ago

Great course, easy to follow, interesting and to the point.

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Bronwyn L. S.
5.0
6 years ago

I love how simple John makes the course. His lectures are like having a friend come over to your home, sit down next to you and teach you.

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Stacy M. S.
5.0
7 years ago

I found John to be very thorough and efficient, straight to the point without overlooking anything important. Many "experts" just breeze over the basics that many beginners don't understand; John did not do this and explained everything very clearly without being condescending. His style is friendly and very easy to listen to. I highly recommend this course for beginners; and will definitely look into further courses with him. Thank you!

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