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.

Requirements

You will need a working computer and an up-to-date web browser connected to the internet.
No prior knowledge of WordPress is necessary. You will be taught everything you need to know.
No coding experience necessary. You will not be coding!

Description

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: