How Wordpress Works As A Publishing Choice For Your Website

Learn what website owners know about Wordpress to create attractive, secure, SEO friendly and e-commerce ready websites

What you'll learn
Designed to get the big picture quickly to evaluate Wordpress as a website publishing choice without taking a long detailed training course.
How Wordpress is used to create and manage a website.
Discover who uses Wordpress for websites and why.
How Themes, Plugins and Widgets are used for design, security and e-commerce.
Know how Wordpress organizes web page content using posts, pages, categories and tags.
Requirements
Generally understanding of websites.
No specific technical skills needed.
Description
This course gives you the insider view of how Wordpress owners create, manage and publish websites that are attractive, secure, SEO friendly and e-commerce ready.This an overview level course designed to expose you the inner workings of Wordpress that all website decision makers need to confidently decide if Wordpress is the right tool to use for your website publishing goals.Each lesson is a tour of a specific aspect of how Wordpress works for a website. You will discover who uses Wordpress for websites and why they do. You get exposed to the backend management functionality called the dashboard including themes, plugins,  navigation, the block content editor, the medial library and user management.Most importantly you will know how Wordpress organizes and presents website and blogging content into posts, pages, categories and tags.At the end of this course you will confidently understand how the major Wordpress components handle website tasks such as design, backup, security, e-commerce and many more and be in a position to decide and compare Wordpress as a choice for publishing your website or blog.

Overview

Section 1: Discover the World of Wordpress Website Publishing

Lecture 1 What You Learn In This Section

Lecture 2 Getting Help

Lecture 3 What is Wordpress?

Lecture 4 Who Uses Wordpress?

Lecture 5 About Open Source Software

Lecture 6 DIY Research: How to Unmask a Wordpress Site

Section 2: How Content is Presented and Organized

Lecture 7 What You Learn In This Section

Lecture 8 What are Themes?

Lecture 9 Posts vs Pages

Lecture 10 What are Post Categories?

Lecture 11 What are Post Tags?

Lecture 12 The Home Page

Lecture 13 Navigation Menus

Section 3: How Functionality and Features Are Added

Lecture 14 What You Learn In This Section

Lecture 15 What Are Widgets?

Lecture 16 What Are Plugins?

Section 4: How You Manage and Edit Your Content

Lecture 17 What You Learn In This Section

Lecture 18 The Block Editor

Lecture 19 The Media Library

Lecture 20 The Image Editor

Section 5: Wrap Up

Lecture 21 Course Review and Wrap Up

Lecture 22 DIY Test Driving: What Are the Installation Choices?

Lecture 23 DIY Test Driving: Overview of How to Install Wordpress on Your Local Computer

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