Start a Blog or Website: Quick Start Guide for Wordpress
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This course is for people who want to create a blog or website but don’t have time to read a long book or complete a lengthy tutorial. It’s especially designed for the quick launch. This course will focus on the WordPress CMS (content management system.) This is the quickest, easiest, non-coding method of starting a website/blog. This course is ideal for people either wanting to have their own blog/website OR for people who want to acquire this skill in order to charge clients for website creation services. You will learn how to get a domain name, hosting services and choose a WordPress theme (the clothes on your website) along with modules on monetizing your site with ads and a place to collect email addresses. If you have a business, idea, blog or voice that needs to be heard. This is a great place to start! There is even a bonus module on creating a logo for your business or website with free online tools.
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Video 1- Get Your Domain Name and Install Wordpress- Choose your domain name
- Sign up for web hosting services
- Install WordPress
- Create a blog post
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Video 2- Choose a Theme & Add Navigation + Menus
- Choose a theme for your site
- Add pages, navigation and menus
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Video 3- Permalinks & PlugIns
- Create permalinks ("pretty links")
- Install suggested plugins for the chosen theme
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Video 4- Side Bar Content
- Learn about widgets
- Add widgets to your side bar for navigation ease and more content
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Video 5- Get Social
You will learn to connect your social accounts to your website
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Video 6- Make Money with AdSense!
In this video you will learn about one of the easiest ways to monetize your website. We will go over various ad networks and how to install one:
- Google AdSense
- Media.Net
- AdThrive
- The Blogger Network
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Video 7- Google Analytics
In this video, you will learn how to set up and integrate Google Analytics with your WordPress site. This is important so that you are aware of where your traffic is coming from and where on your website your visitors are landing.
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Video 8- Integrating Your Email List
In this video, I will show you how to capture emails and send them directly to your email service provider list. You will use MailChimp (free for up to 2,000 subscribers.)
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Video 9- More Theme Customizations
You will learn to customize the sites color palette, create and add a header plus swap out themes.
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Video- 10 Using Premium & 3rd Party Themes
You will learn how to search for, install and customize premium and 3rd Party WordPress themes.
