Beginner WordPress Development

To begin working with WordPress, you must first install it and there is a right and wrong way to do it. This lesson covers the recommended way.

After installation you must login to begin to customize and administer WordPress. See who to do that in this lesson.

Pages are at the heart of every website. Here, you'll learn how to create and manage them, and how to put your content on a page and publish them for the public to see. You'll also learn all the customizations you can do to manage your pages settings such as the order in which they appear, their hierarchy and how to define unique features for each page. All this is necessary to achieve a unique content architecture.

A website without a navigation bar becomes a single page website because you cannot navigate to the other pages on the website. This lesson will teach you how to create advanced and complex-looking navigation menus and display them consistently anywhere on your website.

WordPress has a robust and efficient way to manage multimedia from documents, images, videos, SVGs, slides, and more. This lesson will teach you how to upload your media files to your website, edit them, search them, sort them by date and manage their properties for accessibility.

Since WordPress is so popular and more than 30% of the websites on the internet run on WordPress, there is the danger of every website looking exactly alike. This lesson will teach you how to give your website a unique look using the powerful WordPress feature called Themes.

Page Builders are functionality you add to extend the ability of WordPress to create more custom-looking pages in the shortest time possible. There are a lot of competing page builders out there but we would just cover some of the top 5.

WordPress was initially developed as a blogging platform and it still retains a lot of powerful blogging capabilities till this day. This lesson will help you to understand blogging with WordPress, something it excels very much at.

Out of the box, WordPress is very limited in customizability, but can be very quickly extend with the help of plugins. So let see how that can be done in this lesson.

Widgets are you main way to add functioniality to your website without needing to write complex code. You can add blocks of content to the sidebars and footers that would not belong in the main content area. Let's learn all about widgets in this section.

Unless you plan to be the only one who manages your website or who would need to log into the admin section, you would need to create help with other people and they won't should not log in with our credentials. In this lesson you learn how to create users and assign specific roles to them to decide what exactly they are allowed to do on your website.

Going live with WordPress is easy, but keeping your website safe is really hard. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll find your website being constantly hacked. This section covers the most important security tips to harden your website to be nearly impregnable. So let's dig in.

WordPress can send emails buy default but it does so in a very basic way that sometimes does not ensure deliverability. You may or may not get by if you leave email settings untouched. Let's see in this section what ways we could improve the emailing capabilities of your WordPress website.

Not steroids or narcotics, but technical tweaks you can do to improve the performance of your website so that it does not become slow and buggy. Let's show you how it's done in this section.

A lot of things can go wrong on any website, whether or not it is built on WordPress. There are some peculiarly recurring issues that one might face when using WordPress and if you're a newbie, you might see these happen quite a lot.