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WHAT IS WORDPRESS?
- Basics & Fundamentals of WordPress.
- Difference between cloud hosting and self-hosting WordPressWebsites vs. Blogs
- Creating a WordPress blog within an existing website
- Post vs. pages
- WordPress themes
- WordPress plug-ins
- WordPress widgets
- Domain names and website hosting
- Choosing a domain name
- Setting up a domain name URL
- Setting up website hosting & email
INSTALLING WORDPRESS
- Installing WordPress using the C-Panel
- Manual Installation of WordPress
- A first look at WordPress
- Logging in to the WordPress Admin area
- Using the WordPress Dashboard
- A quick tour of the WordPress admin options
- Previewing your website
CREATING PAGES
- Creating a new page
- Entering a page title and body text
- Showing the Kitchen Sink
- Using the WordPress toolbar
- Using the More button
- Working in Full Screen
- Spell checking within WordPress
- Pasting from Word
- Formatting text
- Using Headers
- Removing formatting
- Inserting custom characters and symbols
- Previewing your page
- Draft vs. publishing
- Editing exiting pages
- Deleting pages
WORKING WITH PAGE HTML
- Using Block Quotes
- Indenting
- Help
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Advanced Page options
- Creating a static front page
IMAGES & WORDPRESS
- Uploading images
- The Image Library
- Deleting images from the Image Library
- Inserting images into a page or post
- Customising images
- Resizing images
- Alternative Text
- Captions
- Deleting images
- Featured images
MANAGING LINKS
- Adding internal text links
- Adding external text links
- The importance of Anchor text
- Linking from images
- Uploading documents
- Linking to file downloads
- Using Link Categories
YOUTUBE VIDEOS & WORDPRESS
- Simple automatic video embedding
- Embedding a YouTube video into a page or post
- Using YouTube plugins
CREATING BLOG POSTS
- The difference between posts and pages
- Creating a blog within your WordPress website
CREATING A NEW POST
- Text & image formatting in a post
- Categories & Tags
- Creating and using categories
- Creating and using tags
- Managing comments in WordPress
- Changing comment settings
- Spam protection
- Managing comments
WORDPRESS WIDGETS
- What are widgets?
- The Widget area
- Using installed widgets
- Installing and customising new widgets
WORDPRESS THEMES
- Free or premium themes?
- Responsive themes
- How to find a WordPress theme
- Installing and activating a WordPress theme
- Exploring theme options
- Setting a custom background
- Setting custom header images
WORDPRESS MENU
- Setting up and customizing a menu system
PLUGINSÂ
- Installing plug-ins
- Ten recommended plug-ins for WordPress websites
- SEO Plugins
- Must have SEO plugin
- Slider Plugins
- Sliders for pages, posts and pictures
- Installing a slider plugin
- Customising sliders
- Contact Form Plugins
- Using Form plugins
- Anti-spam measures (Using Captcha)
- Calender Plugins
- Using & configuring calendar plugins
BACKUP PLUGINS
- Backing up your WordPress data
- WordPress & Google Maps
- Embedding a Google map into a WordPress page or post
- Embedding a Google map into the WordPress sidebar
- Featured images, posts and pages
- Using featured images
- Using featured posts
- Using features pages
- Social Media integration
- Integrating with Facebook, YouTube & Twitter
- Updating WordPress, Themes & Plugins
- Updating WordPress
- Update a WordPress Plugin
- Updating a WordPress Theme
- Customising your basic WordPress installation options
- Basic WordPress settings
- Editing your profile
- Configuring site settings
- Setting your email address
- Creating user-friendly permalinks
WORDPRESS & SEO
- Understanding search engines
- Creating user-friendly permalinks
- Write keyword rich text in your pages and posts
- Using image Alt Tags
- Using an effective HTML title
- Using an effective HTML description
- Using keyword rich headers
- SEO Plugins
- Settings: Permalinks, privacy, comments etc.
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