WordPress Fundamentals 2020

Everything you need to know to get your personal, business or hobby website up and running.

What you'll learn:

• We shall explore the main features of WordPress.
• You will learn how to install WordPress.
• You will be walked through the Admin dashboard and understand what it can do.
• You will learn how to write your first post using blocks.
• You will learn how to add categories and tags to your posts and understand why they are important for search engines.
• You will learn how to write your first page and understand why these are different from posts.
• We shall explore WordPress plugins and how they can enhance your website to suit your needs.
• We shall explore WordPress themes and how to make your site look and feel different.
• You will understand why it is important to make sure your site can be seen on desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.
• We shall explore Menus & Widgets. Personalising your website to help your audience find the content they need.
• You will how to learn how to configure your WordPress website for speed, security and privacy.
• Bonus: You will learn how to maintain your website going forward.

A calm, relaxed, and simple to understand course for those of you who know nothing about WordPress, but want to learn how to use it to set up a blog, a portfolio, a personal website, a project website, some sort of side-hustle hobby business, etc.

We'll run through what everything means and then work on:

• Making a post

• Creating an About page

• Making a Homepage

• Creating a Contact page

Simple and straightforward lessons to help get you up and running as quickly a possible.