Top 8 Recommended WordPress Self-Study Materials! [November 2024]

Wordpress for Beginners - A Complete Guide to Wordpress!

In 2024, it's never been easier to build a fantastic, responsive website that looks great on computers, tablets, and mobile phones.  

You can learn Wordpress WITHOUT having to buy web hosting or a domain name.  I'll show you how you can set it all up on your own computer using free tools. 

NOTE: This course will always be updated to cover the latest version of WordPress. 

The primary goal of this course is to teach anyone, even a complete beginner, how to become a Wordpress guru in a few short hours, without lots of technical jargon.  I'll guarantee that after taking this course you'll have the knowledge you need to build a responsive, beautiful website with the latest version of Wordpress.  Not only will you know more than 99% of Wordpress users out there, but you'll actually enjoy using Wordpress too. 

This course is taught by Wordpress author and teacher, Dr. Andy Williams, who has been using WordPress since 2004, and teaching Wordpress to people of all skill levels since then.

Here is an email from one student on this course:

"Hi Andy,

I have taken several of your courses (and have a couple that I've purchased and haven't started yet). I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your commitment to updating your courses in meaningful ways (including asking for input from students at times). I also appreciate your notifications when changes have been made or are pending. I have taken many online courses and have never seen this level of commitment to students and to keeping the content up to date and relevant. And your courses are great too! Just know that what you are doing is appreciated.

Many thanks,

Jan Beasley"

About the Course

This course will guide you through every single step from installation to finished website.  I'll show you how you can install Wordpress on your own computer for free, so you don't have to pay for a domain name or hosting fees while you complete this course.  Once you've got Wordpress installed on your computer, you will learn how to build and run a successful, beautiful, responsive-design website you can be proud of. 

After taking you through all of the main options in Wordpress, explaining what each one does and how you set it up, I'll let you watch over my shoulder as I build a Wordpress website.  It will be an affiliate site that I hope will make me passive income for many years to come.  Go and check out the free preview tutorials in Section 13. 

 Who is this Wordpress course for? 

Have you ever wanted to build a professional looking website, but didn't know where to start?  Now you can.  Wordpress for Beginners is a complete course for anyone, no matter what your technical ability.  This course assumes no prior knowledge!  

At the start of the course, I'll walk you through setting up Wordpress on your own computer so that you don't need to pay for a web host (or a domain name) while you master wordpress.  When you decide you want to put a website online, you can then watch over-my-shoulder as I buy a domain name and hosting, and install Wordpress online.

Whether you decide to host your site on your own computer, or at a web host, you'll be ready to start mastering Wordpress.  We'll start at the very beginning by logging in to have a look around to familiarize ourselves with the main areas of the Dashboard.

Once you are happy navigating around your new tools, we'll go through the main features you will need as you create your site, including: 

1. The WordPress editor, called Gutenberg.  This is where you enter all of your website content.

2. The Media Library, to manage your images, videos, sound files and other media you want to share on your site.

3. Wordpress Settings, and I'll take you step by step to set those up just right.

4. We'll look at the differences between Wordpress posts and pages, and I'll give you a simple way of knowing which one to use on any occasion.

5. We'll look at post excerpts, categories and tags, and how to use them on a well-structured site to maximize visitor experience and search engine ranking benefits.

6. You'll see the two main ways you can set your homepage up.

7. We'll create a contact form on the site so visitors can get in touch.

8. We'll setup an About us page, and I'll explain why this page is important and what information to include on it.

9. We'll cover the legal pages you need.

10. We'll discuss the navigation system on your site, and how you can set up customized navigation in the header, sidebar or footer of your site.  We'll also talk about internal site linking.

11. We'll cover Wordpress security, and set up a system that will keep the site safe from hackers.

12. We'll check out some great free plugins.

13. Finally, I'll give you a 20 step plan for creating your site. 

By the end of this course, you will have a website that you are truly proud of. 

Just of few of the many Student Reviews

• This is a fabulous course, and I would it give it six stars if such a rating were available! Everything is very clearly explained, and Andy promptly answers any question you might have. If you are interested in using and learning WordPress, you owe it to yourself to take this outstanding course. Robert Weiser

• Lectures are well-structured with lots of details given. The instructor is extremely knowledgeable and communicates very effectively. I've been able to set up my first website based on what I've learned here. A definite plus is that questions posted via the course are answered quickly! Susan Worms

• I love this course. I have spent a few hours today and I have already learned so much. Really excited about the potential for when I am done. Great Course! A. Luis Acosta

• I learned a lot more than how to use WordPress in basic terms. Andrew shares a lot of insider knowledge and tips that would take you countless hours of doing your own research to learn...and answering questions you may not have thought to ask. Couldn't have asked for a better course to help me jumpstart into WordPress. Nathaniel Stephens

• What a fantastic share of knowledge. I really appreciated and loved how a "real" site was used for the lectures, real world examples of everything. I would definitely take this course - highly recommended! Glen Schafer

• This course is perfect for people who want to start a blog or info page with wordpress. He covers all the basics and sometimes goes even a little deeper, to give you an idea what to look for. The provided documents are gold and very helpfull. I can't wait to go public with my site. Thank you for the great lectures. Andreas Lackmann

• I really wish I had access to a course such as this four years ago when I first started dabbling with Wordpress as a hobby in my retirement. The learning process at the time, for a non-techy like me, was painstaking. Andy's course was the ideal step-by-step teaching method. I'm now much more confident about starting a new affiliate marketing website. Leon

• Well delivered, well structured. Easy to follow and logical. Developed my own website in parallel with the course, and had it up and running within two weeks of starting. Looking forward to undertaking a couple of the course developers other courses now. Highly recommended. Steve Laing

• Excellent instructor. Andy is great. He used visuals for everything he say. I was able to pause him and go to my site and test my understanding in all areas that I did know. The results and excitement are fantastic. Esau Khan

• A fantastic course. Thank you Andy. This is a great course and it has helped me start to build my own WordPress website. I was very impressed when I had a problem with viewing my site that you took time to check for me. That shows what a great teacher you are. I have booked up another course by to and can't wait for more. Once again. Thank you. B Brown

• Many of the courses I've been through related to learning Wordpress are either too complicated or the author doesn't spend enough time explaining concepts so that you can understand what's being said. Andy strikes a nice balance with this course in that all the modules are broken up into easily digestible pieces. I like that he takes enough time to explain each new concept or module without being repetitive or using jargon that's difficult to follow. I also love being able to follow along with Andy as he explains each new module as well (as opposed to just talking off of slides all the time). He literally walks you through everything, so it's like you're right there looking over his shoulder. For anyone wanting to understand all the fundamentals of Wordpress, I think you'll absolutely love this course. It will save you tons of time by having all this information in one place. And you'll even learn some additional features like setting up affiliate links (not that everyone needs to know this but I like that Andy included it so it's there if you ever want to know). Truly a fantastic course! Lance Gross

• Superb Course - Extraordinary Instructor!! Andy's Wordpress for Beginners-Master Wordpress Quicky course is by far the best Wordpress course I've seen. And I definitely wouldn't say it's just for beginners. I'm not a beginner - I thought I knew Wordpress pretty well, but I learned SO MUCH MORE from this course! I've always had a lot of questions about the many settings and various options in Wordpress and most courses just skip over them or tell you to check this box and move on with no explanation. I never really got my questions answered until now. Andy is very detailed in his instruction. He walks you through step by step and tells you what each setting or section is for, how it is used (or not used) and why. I got more out of Andy's course than any other course I've ever taken. He has an extensive teaching background and it is evident in his clearly produced videos. After taking this course, you'll find your confidence level will soar. Carol

1. Introduction to the Course
2. Before you Begin
3. Introducing Wordpress!
4. Introduction to the course
5. Which Wordpress?
6. Dashboard Differences
7. Pre-Course Question
8. Wordpress Glossary
9. Where to Install WordPress?
10. Introduction to Wordpress
11. Local Install - Install WordPress on your Computer
12. IMPORTANT: Please Read this FIRST
13. Local Install Issues
14. Local By Flywheel
15. Other Options
16. Local By Flywheel Quiz
17. Installing Wordpress on a Web Host
18. IMPORTANT: Please Read this FIRST
19. Finding the domain
20. Installing Wordpress on a Web Host
21. Removing the Bluehost Cache
22. Web Host Install
23. A first look around Wordpress
24. IMPORTANT: Please read
25. Switching Themes
26. The Wordpress Dashboard
27. Clearing out Wordpress pre-installed content
28. Post & Page Editor(s)
29. A Look at the WYSIWYG "Classic" Editor
30. The Gutenberg Editor
31. The Media Library
32. The WordPress Dashboard
33. The Gutenberg Editor
34. About Animations
35. A Minor Interface Change
36. Gutenberg Overview
37. The Interface
38. Anatomy of a Block
39. Adding Blocks to Build a Post
40. Group Block
41. Inserting Images & Wrap
42. Cover Block
43. Columns
44. Reusable Blocks
45. Finding More Blocks
46. Gutenberg
47. Wordpress Settings
48. Setting up a Gravatar
49. Author Profile
50. General Settings
51. Writing Settings
52. Update Services
53. Reading Settings
54. Discussion Settings
55. Allowing Comments & Comment Moderation
56. Permalinks
57. Privacy Settings
58. Themes, Plugins & Widgets
59. Responsive Website Design?
60. Wordpress Themes
61. Plugins & Adding a Sitemap
62. Installing Premium Plugins
63. Wordpress Widgets
64. Settings, plugins and themes
65. Website Content with Posts & Pages
66. Wordpress Posts v Wordpress Pages
67. WordPress "Pages"
68. WordPress "Posts"
69. Post Categories
70. Post Tags
71. Categories & Tags Summary
72. Importance of Excerpts
73. Importance of Featured Images
74. How to schedule a post
75. Resizing & Optimizing Images
76. Creating a WordPress Page
77. Creating a WordPress post
78. Page or Post?
79. Posts and Pages
80. The Homepage
81. The importance of the homepage
82. Static Homepage v Blog Posts
83. Creating A Blog Style Homepage
84. Creating A Static Style Homepage
85. The Homepage
86. Creating the Legal Pages
87. Creating a Contact page
88. Creating an About Us page
89. Terms, Privacy and Disclaimers
90. Website Navigation
91. Custom Menus
92. Navigation Menu Widgets
93. Related Post Navigation
94. Latest Posts
95. Internal Site Linking
96. Website Navigation
97. Wordpress Security
98. WARNING: Read before you continue
99. Wordpress Security
100. What to do if the security plugin locks you out
101. All In One Security Plugin
102. Stop Spammers Plugin
103. Wordpress Backup
104. How to change your Wordpress Author Page Name
105. Security
106. Some Important Plugins
107. Social Sharing
108. Responsive LIghtbox
109. Pretty links Lite
110. Wordpress Site Structure
111. Site Structure Options
112. The WordPress Set Up Process
113. Importing Demo Content
114. Please Read
115. The Astra Sidebar
116. Creating A Blog Site
117. Creating A Blog with Blog Homepage
118. Changing the Homepage to Static
119. Creating the Business Site
120. Creating a Business Site
121. Business Site Navigation
122. Creating the Hybrid Site
123. Creating the Hybrid Site Structure
124. Hybrid Site Navigation
125. Site Structure
126. Gutenberg Full Site Editor Primer
127. What is Full Site Editing (FSE)?
128. What do I need for FSE?
129. The FSE Interface
130. Using Template Parts
131. Which template do I edit?
132. Practice with FSE
133. Feedback
134. Post-Course Question
135. WordPress Q&A
136. Question: WordPress Admin Bar
137. Question: Scheduling Posts in WordPress
138. Question: How to embed a video in WordPress
139. Question: Updating WordPress safely
140. Question: What is the robots.txt file
141. Question: How to put your site into maintenance mode
142. Question: What is an RSS feed and why should we bother?
143. Question: How to insert symbols like © into posts, pages, widget areas, etc.
144. Question: Still confused about tags v categories?
145. Question: How do you create Jump Links?
146. Resources
147. If you are new to Udemy, watch this...
148. Requests for additional videos?
149. Bonus lecture

Unlock the full power of WordPress and go beyond "just a blog platform" by learning how to code completely custom WordPress powered sites.

Updated for 2024: New chapters about The Interactivity API, Block Themes, Full Site Editing, Gutenberg Block Type Creation, Plugin Development, React.js basics, custom MySQL essentials, and more!

I've spent the last 12 years studying WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript and now I'm here to teach you everything I know. Come along on this journey with me and become a WordPress developer.

Together we will build a website for a fictional university and along the way we will:

• Install WordPress on your personal computer so you have a private playground copy of WordPress to practice and experiment with

• Get introduced to the PHP language (this is what powers WordPress)

• Set Up a New Theme (You'll learn how to convert any HTML template into a living breathing WordPress theme)

• Create Custom Post Types and Custom Fields

• Relate pieces of content with each other (e.g. a professor and a program)

• Learn the basics of (object-oriented) JavaScript

• Leverage the WP REST API

• Learn to use JavaScript to communicate with the WordPress back-end on-the-fly

• Let visitors sign up for a basic account on our site

• Build a "My Notes" feature (user specific single page application with real-time CRUD actions)

• Let users "like" or "heart" a professor (update the professor's like count on-the-fly)

• Deploy our website live up onto the web for the entire world to view

• And much more!

This course may be brand new, but this isn’t my first time teaching. I’ve led training sessions for Fortune 500 companies and I’ve already helped over 17,000 people on Udemy and received the following feedback:

"Brad definitely has some of the best techniques to embed the lesson into your mind… hands down these are the best tutorials I have had the opportunity to view."

"Presentation is concise without being tedious… you honestly feel that you have a thorough understanding of the subject."

"…[Brad] explained the process. Not memorize this or that, he explained the process. If you're looking to take a course to understand the foundations of creating websites, look no further."

Become highly valuable and relevant to the companies that are hiring WordPress developers; in one convenient place alongside one instructor. If you're ready to begin coding custom websites - I'll see you on the inside!

1. Welcome!
2. 2024 Roadmap & Intro!
3. Welcome to the Course!
4. Getting Started
5. What is a Dev Environment? (Your First Installation)
6. If You're Unable to Install Local by Flywheel
7. About The Recent Big Changes To WordPress
8. First Taste of PHP
9. First Coding Steps: PHP
10. A Note About URLs / My Address Bar
11. Creating a New Theme
12. PHP Functions
13. PHP Arrays
14. WordPress Specific PHP
15. The Famous "Loop" in WordPress
16. Header & Footer
17. Optional: If You Want To Skip To One of The Final Chapters In The Course...
18. Convert Static HTML Template into WordPress (Part 1)
19. Convert Static HTML Template into WordPress (Part 2)
20. Pages
21. Interior Page Template
22. Parent & Children Pages
23. To Echo or Not To Echo
24. Menu of Child Page Links
25. A Few Quick Edits / Improvements
26. Navigation Menus
27. Navigation Menus (Continued)
28. Building the Blog Section
29. Blog Listing Page (index.php vs front-page.php)
30. Blog Continued
31. Blog Archives (archive.php)
32. Custom Queries
33. Blog: Few Quick Edits & Improvements
34. Events Post Type
35. Custom Post Types
36. Using The Modern Block Editor For Our Custom Post Type
37. Displaying Custom Post Types
38. Quick Timeout: Misc Updates
39. Custom Fields
40. A Note About the WordPress Post Edit Screen
41. Ordering (Sorting) Custom Queries
42. Manipulating Default URL Based Queries
43. Past Events Page (Custom Query Pagination)
44. Programs Post Type
45. Creating Relationships Between Content
46. Displaying Relationships (Front-End)
47. Quick Program Edits
48. Professors Post Type
49. Quick Note About The Next Lesson
50. Professors Post Type
51. Featured Image (Post Thumbnail)
52. Featured Image Sizes & Cropping
53. Page Banner Dynamic Background Image
54. Cleaner Code (Less Duplication)
55. Note About PHP Warning In The Next Lesson
56. Reduce Duplicate Code - Create Our Own Function
57. Solution To "Undefined array key" Warnings
58. Quick Fix For Page Banner Function
59. Using Our "pageBanner" Function
60. Reduce Duplication - "get_template_part()"
61. JavaScript Preparation
62. Getting Our Computer & Project Ready for JavaScript
63. Important Note About The Next Lesson
64. Optional: The Finished Product Of This Course: All In One Import File
65. Campus Post Type
66. Note About Google Maps JavaScript API
67. Campus Post Type
68. Campus Map on Front-End
69. Campuses Continued
70. Final Campus Details
71. Live Search (UI JavaScript)
72. Live Search
73. Quick Note About The Next Lesson
74. Open and Close Search Overlay
75. Preventing the Text Field Suggestions Pop-up
76. Keyboard Events in JavaScript
77. Managing Time in JavaScript
78. Waiting / Loading Spinner Icon
79. WordPress REST API (AJAX)
80. Quick Note About The Next Lesson
81. Load WP Content with JS
82. Generate HTML Based on JSON
83. Conditional Logic Within Template Literal
84. Quick Misc Edits
85. Synchronous vs Asynchronous (Part 1)
86. Synchronous vs Asynchronous (Part 2)
87. Customizing the REST API
88. REST API: Add New Custom Field
89. REST API: Add New Custom Route (URL)
90. Create Your Own Raw JSON Data
91. WP_Query and Keyword Searching
92. Working With Multiple Post Types
93. Combining Front-End & Back-End
94. 3 Column Layout for Search Overlay
95. Custom Layout & JSON based on Post Type
96. Quick Note About The Next Lesson
97. Search Logic That's Aware of Relationships
98. Search Logic That's Aware of Relationships (Part 2)
99. Completing Our Search Overlay
100. jQuery Free Live Search
101. Non-JS Fallback Traditional Search
102. Traditional WordPress Searching
103. Traditional WordPress Searching (Part 2)
104. User Roles and Permissions
105. User Roles and Permissions
106. Open Registration
107. Open Registration (Part 2)
108. User Generated Content
109. "My Notes" Feature
110. "My Notes" Front-end Part 1
111. "My Notes" Front-end Part 2
112. Quick Note About The Next Lesson
113. Delete Posts with the REST API
114. Edit / Update Posts with the REST API
115. Creating New Notes
116. Creating New Notes (Part 2)
117. Note Permissions and Security (Part 1)
118. Note Permissions and Security (Part 2)
119. Per-User Post Limit
120. Quick Note About CSS
121. jQuery Free My Notes
122. Like or "Heart" Count for Professors
123. Let Users "Like" Content (Part 1)
124. Let Users "Like" Content (Part 2)
125. Creating Custom POST and DELETE Endpoints
126. Programmatically Create a Post
127. Enforce Limit of One Like Per User/Teacher Combo
128. Don't Forget About The "isset" Solution
129. Completing the LikeBox
130. Reminder To Use "isset" In Our LikeBox HTML Output
131. jQuery Free LikeBox
132. Going Live: Deploying Our WordPress Site (New for 2024)
133. Going Live with Our Website
134. The Different Web Hosts & Plans To Consider
135. Installing WordPress On Our Live Site
136. Migrate Local WP Site To Live Site
137. Getting Started With Git
138. How To Login Into Our Live Site With SSH
139. Turn Live Site Into Git Host (Bare Repo)
140. Passwordless SSH Login
141. Extra Credit Challenges & Topics
142. Note About Making The Slideshow Dynamic
143. Challenge: Make Homepage Slideshow Dynamic
144. What Is WP-CLI?
145. Plugin Development: PHP
146. Introduction to Plugin Development
147. Let's Create Our First Plugin
148. Adding a Settings Page For Our Plugin
149. Settings API (Saving Settings Data)
150. Finishing Our Settings Form
151. Actually Counting the Words, Characters, and Read Time
152. Translations / Localization (For PHP)
153. Admin Sub-Menu
154. Custom Admin Menu Icon
155. Solution To Undefined Array Key Message In Next Lesson
156. Alternative: Manually Handling Admin Form Submit
157. Finishing Word Filter Plugin
158. Plugin Development: Blocks, Gutenberg & React
159. Introduction to JavaScript Plugin Development
160. Introduction to JSX
161. Block Type Attributes
162. Let's Discuss the Output of Our Block (Part 1)
163. Let's Discuss the Output of Our Block (Part 2)
164. Plugin: Multiple Choice Block Type (React)
165. Quick Note About Loading Block Asset Files
166. Starting Our Multiple Choice Block Type
167. Styling Our Block
168. Event Handling & Updating Block Attributes
169. Focus New Field For Immediate Typing
170. Setting Up The Correct Answer
171. If You're Using a Block Theme: Load Your JS In The Footer
172. How To Use React on The Front-End of WordPress
173. Passing Block Data From PHP Into JavaScript / React
174. Letting Users Click On (Guess) An Answer
175. Attention To Detail
176. A Note About Animations / Transitions in React
177. Let Admin Choose Background Color of Block
178. Block Text Alignment & Block Preview
179. Using The "block.json" File
180. Plugin: Featured Professor
181. Starting Our Featured Professor Plugin
182. Loading a List of Professors
183. Displaying Professor Info
184. Professor Preview In Editor (Part 1)
185. Professor Preview In Editor (Part 2)
186. Control Post Meta With Block Type
187. Add Related Posts to Professor Detail Page
188. Translations / Localization (For JavaScript)
189. Plugin Development: Custom SQL Database Table
190. Understanding The Pros and Cons of the "Post" Paradigm
191. Creating Our Own Custom Table
192. Querying Our Table
193. Building Dynamic Queries (Part 1)
194. Quick Note About PHP Arrays
195. PHP Warnings In The Next Lesson
196. Building Dynamic Queries (Part 2)
197. Reminder Of PHP Warning Solution
198. Create Pet From Front-End
199. Delete Pet From Front-End
200. Converting Plugin To Be a Block Type Plugin Instead

Ever had a business idea that you had to let slide because you didn't know how to build a website? Or maybe have been quoted thousands of dollars for someone else to build one for you? That all changes after this course.

Learn how to build responsive, modern and beautiful WordPress websites in less than 21 hours. After completion, you will be able to confidently transform any business or blog ideas into life overnight with the power of WordPress and the industry-leading visual page builder - Elementor.

Discover how you can apply templates to websites to build something new in a matter of hours. Not weeks, or even days, but hours. Build beautiful, modern websites for yourself,  or master your craft and start charging new clients for your new in-demand skill set.

Doors open and opportunities reveal themselves once you can proficiently design and build a website - a website just like we will build in this WordPress & Elementor Master Course. You will also master the basics of WordPress SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and how you can drive traffic to your website completely for free.

Ready to invoke some change and take a giant leap in your career, professional and personal life? I'll see you inside!

1. Introduction
2. What you will learn from this course
3. Who is this course for?
4. Meet the website you are going to build
5. Support & additional resources (Important!)
6. WordPress - Powering The Internet
7. What is WordPress and why we are using it
8. Wordpress.com or Wordpress.org?
9. Understanding The Basics
10. Web hosting 101
11. Understanding what a domain name is
12. Understanding the techy jargon (cheatsheet download)
13. Show me what you know!
14. Setting Up Wordpress Locally Without Hosting
15. What is Local WP?
16. Installing & configuring Local WP
17. Creating your first WordPress site locally
18. Show me what you know!
19. WordPress - Getting under the hood
20. Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard
21. Configuring our WordPress settings
22. Introduction to the block editor - creating our first post
23. Adding a few more posts using the classic editor
24. Installing and customising themes
25. The Elementor Theme Builder
26. What is Elementor?
27. Understanding the WordPress template files
28. Install & activate Elementor on our website
29. Navigating the new Elementor pricing, packages and hosting
30. Installing & setting up Elementor Pro
31. Introduction to the Elementor settings
32. Elementor settings continued
33. Experiments & features
34. Building Our Menu, Header & Footer
35. Creating our header menu
36. Creating our footer menu
37. Designing your logos for free using canva
38. Adding logos to our site
39. Quick note on the 'Search Widget' we're going to be using
40. Building our header with flexbox containers
41. Building our header - pt 2
42. Finishing off our header
43. Design & build our footer
44. Design & Build Our Homepage
45. Updating our Elementor UI for a better workflow
46. Design & build the homepage - hero section
47. Design fundamentals - colour palettes & font pairing
48. Adding global default fonts and styles to our project
49. Design & build the counters section
50. Design & build the polaroids section
51. Design & build the polaroids section - pt 2
52. Design & build our posts section
53. Design & build our parallax section
54. Adding a few more blog posts
55. Design & build our inspiration section
56. Design & build our logo slider section
57. Final tweaks to our homepage design
58. Design & Build The 'About Us' & 'Contact' Pages
59. Drawing inspiration for your designs
60. Design & build the about us page
61. Adding motion effects and animations
62. Design & build our contact page
63. Finishing off our contact page
64. The Art of Responsive Design
65. Making our homepage mobile responsive
66. Making our homepage mobile responsive - pt 2
67. Making our homepage mobile responsive - pt 3
68. Making our header fully responsive
69. Making our footer fully responsive
70. Making our contact page fully responsive
71. Making our about page full responsive
72. Design & Build Our Theme Template Files
73. What is coming up in this section
74. Building our single post template - pt 1
75. Building our single post template - pt 2
76. Finishing our single post template - pt 3
77. Amending our display conditions
78. Making our single page template mobile responsive
79. Amending our post categories
80. Design and build our archive template file
81. Making our archive page template fully responsive
82. Getting creative with our archive template files
83. Template pages on steroids
84. Finishing off our templates on steroids
85. Design & build our search results template
86. Build our error 404 template file
87. Are you an aspiring freelancer looking to start your own business?
88. Show me what you know!
89. Domain Name & Hosting
90. Note on the next lesson
91. Set up a web hosting account with Hostinger
92. Purchasing a domain name with Namecheap
93. Changing our nameservers of our new domain
94. Claiming your free domain with Hostinger Premium
95. Getting familiar with the Hostinger dashboard
96. Migrating Your Local Website To Your Web Hosting Account
97. Install Duplicator and create our migration package
98. Migrate website to our server for the whole world to see!
99. Show me what you know!
100. Additional Plugins and Configurations
101. Note on the next lesson
102. Install and configure W3 Total Cache
103. Measure your page loading times
104. Install and configure Wordfence Security
105. Install and configure Updraft Plus
106. Updating our plugins and themes
107. Taking your Wordpress & Elementor skills further
108. Finishing Our Travel Tips & Resources Pages
109. What is coming up in this section
110. Completing our travel tips page
111. Building our resources page
112. Making our resources page fully responsive
113. Driving Free Traffic To Our Website using SEO
114. What is SEO?
115. The SEO work flow
116. What are keywords?
117. Keeping track of your keywords
118. Determining your on-page SEO strategy for your website
119. Creating a Google Ads account for the free keyword tools
120. Keyword research with Google Keyword Planner
121. 30-day free trial for Semrush
122. Introduction to my favourite SEO tool - Semrush
123. Note on the next lesson
124. Using Google Chrome Extensions to research keyword difficulty
125. Keyword research straight from the browser using Keyword Surfer
126. What is on page optimisation?
127. Installing & configuring Rank Math
128. On-page optimisation using Rank Math
129. On-page optimisations continued
130. Show me what you know!
131. *Extra* - Adding Google Analytics To Your Website
132. Creating a Google Analytics account
133. Installing the Google Tag to our website
134. Additional resources to help with installations
135. Building An Email List
136. Creating an Aweber account
137. Adding a new business email address
138. Configuring your email addresses with your email client
139. Adding your sending domain name
140. Creating a welcome email
141. Connecting Aweber to our website
142. Adding a sign-up form to our footer
143. Designing a pop-up email capture form
144. Updating our privacy policy page
145. Adding a Cookie opt-in plugin
146. Configuring our Cookie plugin
147. Thats a wrap!
148. Final words (and a big thank you from me)
149. Bonus Content
150. Bonus bits for you as a thank you from me

This is the *LAST WordPress and Elementor course you will ever have to take*

Why? Because this course will regularly be updated with just about EVERY new feature and experiment that comes through the pipeline of Elementor so that you are always pioneering the newest features.

This course is for those WordPress and Elementor website builders that want to stay at the very cutting edge of design and build techniques so that you can deliver the VERY best, cutting-edge websites for yourself and for your clients.

Ricky has been designing and building WordPress websites for over 12 years. As well as the hundreds of client websites he has built in this time, he also owns his own successful e-commerce business,  7 authoritative blogs, and WordPress developer agency & an SEO agency.

His undeniable passion lies in WordPress and Elementor, as he pioneers his own design techniques and leads the cutting-edge world of beautiful, dynamic WordPress development.

In this course Ricky will be taking you by the hand through every lesson, advancing your skills from a beginner/intermediate WordPress developer to one who can quite literally go away and build ANY website.

Over the next 9 hours of video training, you will learn how to:

• Master flexbox containers and truly responsive web design for incredibly detailed websites

• Add your own custom post types, custom fields and custom taxonomies so that you can quite literally build ANY website you could ever be asked to build

• Dynamically inject custom fields and content throughout your web pages and theme template files

• Master how to build complex theme templates to showcase every single post completely dependent on taxonomy/category

• Take quick and easy payments with PayPal & Stripe buttons without needing to install Woocoommerce

• Bring your pages to life using page animations, motions effects, scroll effects, mouse effects, parallax effects & more

If you are wanting to take your WordPress & Elementor skills to the next level so that you can build ANY website for yourself or for your clients as a service, then this is the course that is going to progress you from an intermediate level to a complete master of your craft.

Ready to jump in? Let's get to it...

1. Introduction
2. Introduction
3. Who is this course for?
4. Support & additional resources (Important!)
5. Meet the website we are building together
6. Building A Web Developer Agency Website
7. Setting up our website locally
8. Note on the next lesson (Updated Elementor Pro pricing)
9. Installing Elementor Pro and Hello Theme
10. Quick not on the next lesson
11. Install Elementor Developer for early access to future features
12. Working With Flexbox Containers
13. Working with flexbox containers
14. Adding our menu
15. Design & build our header
16. Design & build our footer
17. Building our homepage - hero banner
18. Making our menu fully responsive
19. Building our homepage - logo slider & services
20. Building our homepage - twin containers
21. Building the homepage - contact container
22. Building the homepage - case studies
23. Building the homepage - testimonial section
24. Responsive web design using containers
25. Motion Effects & Page Transitions
26. Adding motion effects to our page
27. Adding page transitions & preloaders
28. Adding Custom Post Types
29. What are custom post types?
30. Registering new custom post types & taxonomies
31. Adding custom fields
32. Adding a new Case Study post type
33. Add the remaining Case Studies
34. Are you an aspiring freelancer who wants to launch your own business?
35. Displaying Dynamic Content
36. Attention interrupt - 3 tips to help you become a freelance WordPress developer
37. Building our Case Studies template file
38. Getting creative with dynamic images and transitions
39. Sticky scrolling effects
40. Adding category-specific static content
41. Finishing off our Case Studies template file
42. Mobile responsiveness - tablet
43. Mobile responsiveness - mobile
44. Dynamically include the category of the Case Study
45. Adding our remaining category template files for Case Studies
46. Loop Carousels & Grids
47. Designing our Case Studies page - Hero
48. Case Studies page - flip boxes
49. Getting our loop element ready
50. Building our loop template file
51. Finishing off our case studies page
52. Adding a button to our loop template file
53. Dynamic Archive Template Files
54. Growing your business website
55. building our e-commerce archive template file
56. Adding a static counters section
57. Getting things ready for another loop template
58. Building the loop template and finishing the archive design
59. Additional category archive pages
60. About Page - Using Clever Design Elements
61. Building the hero banner
62. Adding our Vision and Mission
63. Adding our top team members
64. Taking Payments & Selling Memberships (Without Woocommerce)
65. Build our Services page
66. Fixing our button & adding Parallax effects
67. Set up PayPal buttons to accept payments
68. Set up Stripe buttons to accept payments
69. Sell memberships on your website
70. Building Mega Menu's
71. What is a mega menu
72. Build our own mega menu
73. That's A Wrap
74. What's next
75. Bonus bits for you as a thank you from me

* The only WordPress course you need to become a WordPress front-end developer *

You're here because you want to master WordPress, right?

This WordPress Course was created for you!

Take this course if either of these applies to you:

1. You own a business and need more clients OR

2. Your Idea involves making a website OR

3. You want to learn WordPress

4. You want to start your own web design business and sell websites.

Over 455 million users use WordPress making it the number one website content management system (CMS) worldwide. This course explains the most basic features of WordPress and also deals with advanced web design concepts. By the end of this WordPress online training, you will have enough knowledge to create any Professional WordPress website of your own, and you will be able to create websites for your clients.

WordPress is the perfect tool for creating a fully customized website for any purpose. Whether you want to create a blog,  a personal portfolio, a corporate business site, an eCommerce site, or a business website to sell your products and services, you can do it with WordPress.

While it's never been easier to build a website, many people get lost when it comes to creating a stylish WordPress website. By following this Complete WordPress course, you will be able to build powerful WordPress websites with different plugins and get ahead on your journey as an entrepreneur. 

Why am I Worth Your Time?

Through this course, I'll teach you everything I've learned and mastered through 10 years of building, managing, migrating, and hosting WordPress websites. 

"The instructor Tanzeel is very passionate about the topic of WordPress and it shows. He is very knowledgeable and I learned a lot! I am very confident about how to build my WordPress site now, all thanks to this course" ~~Wendy Aston

I'll walk you through every step in how to use WordPress through a series of videos. I've also included useful resource documents for you to reference.

~I know where you're at.

~I know where you're coming from.

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WHAT PROJECTS ARE INCLUDED IN THE COMPLETE WORDPRESS WEBSITE COURSE?

PROJECT#1: A personal Website: In this project, we design a single-page responsive personal/resume WordPress-based website with a contact form connected via SMTP Server so it may send emails.

PROJECT#2: A Business Website: In this project, we build a multi-page responsive business WordPress website with a contact form and a portfolio.

PROJECT#3: A Blog: In this project, we design a professional blog with pagination and custom WordPress Blog Posts.

PROJECT#4: An eCommerce Website: In this project, we build an amazing eCommerce website that consists of a cart and checkout page. Shipping rates, tax, use of coupons, variable products, and everything that is used to build an eCommerce website with WordPress are explained briefly.

PROJECT#5: A real estate Website: We design a customized website for this project. Since WordPress comes with posts and pages only, we create our custom post type and name it as property, then we build a template for it.

After you are done with all these projects, you would be able to work with the WordPress Custom Post type feature to build and design your custom website instead of just posts and pages. You would also be able to add custom fields to that custom post type and design that page dynamically.

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Summary of what you'll learn?

• How WordPress works and why it uses PHP as its primary language.

• You will learn in detail about Domain, Hosting, and Xampp for running WordPress

• Manual and Auto Installation of WordPress

• Creation and integration of databases with WordPress

• WordPress Basic Settings

• How to Choose a Perfect WordPress theme for your business

• How to build a personal/resume site with WordPress

• What are the WordPress plugins and how to use them

• How to build professional blogs with WordPress

• How to build a Corporate style business website with WordPress

• How to set up an eCommerce site (online store) and sell your products using WordPress and WooCommerce

• What is Paypal and how to integrate WordPress with API to receive payments

• What is Stripe and how to integrate WordPress with API to receive Credit Card Payments

• How to register your custom post type in WordPress

• How to add custom fields in WordPress

• How to build a template in WordPress

• How to build archive templates in WordPress

• How to optimize your WordPress website for SEO

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Paid Hosting, Plugins, and themes recommended in this course:

1. Hostinger business web hosting: worth $54. (you can also go with a free method, explained in the course)

2. Elementor pro (advanced) plugin: worth $99. (You can go with the free version if you do not wish to buy that, however, the 5th project requires you to purchase that).

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What This Course Does NOT Include:

This course is a 100% complete "Front End course" and does NOT cover WordPress Backend PHP Programming.

1. Introduction to the course
2. What to Expect?
3. Before you begin
4. How to ask Questions?
5. Required Tools
6. Why you need a server to run WordPress
7. Lets recall
8. For Windows Users: WordPress Installation
9. Installation of Xampp on Windows
10. How to change Apache port
11. Installation of WordPress on Windows
12. XAMPP not working? (Read Me)
13. For MAC USERS: WordPress Installation
14. Installation of Xampp on MacOS
15. Installation WordPress and some mac fixes
16. Bug Fixes for Mac OS
17. WordPress basics in 1 Hour (Recently Updated)
18. WordPress Overview
19. Creating a 3 Page Website
20. How does different Theme Customizer Work
21. Designing Top Bar
22. Designing the header
23. Designing the footer
24. MUST WATCH!!! Page Builders Overview
25. Lets Recall
26. Page Builder Basics (Recently Updated)
27. What are containers and elements?
28. Basic Styling in Page Builder
29. Margins and Paddings
30. Grid Containers
31. Lets recall
32. Project1: Lets Build a Personal website with WordPress (Recently updated)
33. Designing the header
34. Making header transparent
35. Designing About Me Section
36. Designing Services Section
37. Designing Social & CTA section
38. Adding a popup
39. Contact Form in Popup
40. Menu Settings
41. Doing the Mobile Optimization
42. Older Lectures
43. All about Online Server (Web Hosting and Domain - UPDATED)
44. Introduction to online server
45. Getting the Domain and Web Hosting
46. hPanel Overview
47. Xampp Transfer Part 1
48. Xampp Transfer Part 2
49. LocalWP Transfer (Watch this if you were using localwp instead of xampp)
50. Bug Fixing
51. Domain email part 1 (User Level)
52. Domain email part 2 (Admin Level)
53. Email part 3 (Contact Form)
54. Email part 4 (Mobile Integration)
55. Menu Settings
56. SSL
57. Sub Domain
58. Addon Domain
59. Addon Domain (different registrar)
60. Sub Domain for 2nd Project
61. Lets Recall
62. Older Version of The Complete WordPress Website Course Lectures
63. Project2: Lets build a corporate Business Site (Recently Updated)
64. 4 Methods to start this project
65. Setting up the website, logo, Pages, header and topbar
66. Web Design Essential: Logo Design
67. Enable the new topbar of elementor before starting this project
68. Creating the Hero Section
69. Designing the counter section
70. Why We Section
71. Solutions Section
72. Team Section
73. Help Section
74. Align Self Feature
75. Testimonial and CTA Section
76. About Page (Part 1)
77. About Page (Part 2)
78. About Page (part 3)
79. Services Page Design
80. Contact Page Design
81. Mobile rendering: Home (Part 1)
82. Mobile rendering: Home (Part 2)
83. Mobile rendering: Home (Part 3)
84. Mobile rendering: About Page
85. Mobile rendering: Services & Contact Pages
86. Mobile menu and iPhone Link fix
87. Old Lectures
88. Project 3: Blog (Recently Updated)
89. Introduction
90. Creating our first Post
91. Why you should not use elementor for a blog website?
92. Taxonomy
93. Custom Taxonomy
94. Adding more posts
95. Menu
96. Static vs Dynamic Pages
97. How themes work
98. The theme that I recommend
99. Designing Header and Footer
100. Sticky Header
101. Designing Blog Post Template
102. Designing Category Template
103. Designing Single Post Template
104. Comments
105. Other Dynamic Pages
106. Other Customizer Settings
107. Home Page Design
108. Gutenberg: Hero Section
109. Gutenberg: Destination Section
110. Gutenberg: Latest Posts
111. Elementor vs Gutenberg
112. Transparent Header
113. Gutenberg: About Page (part 1)
114. Gutenberg: About Page (part 2)
115. Gutenberg: Advertise Page
116. Sidebar
117. Widgets
118. Newsletter
119. Blocksy Extra Features
120. Mobile and Tablet Optimization
121. Older Version Lectures
122. Project 4: eCommerce Website (Recently Updated)
123. Introduction
124. Setting up the website
125. How to add a product to your site?
126. Cart and Checkout page fix
127. General Settings
128. Product Settings
129. Tax Settings
130. Setting up the shipping methods (local pickup, DHL, FedEX) for multiple country
131. Payment Settings
132. Test Order
133. Paypal Integration
134. Stripe Integration for debit/credit cards
135. Accounts and Privacy Settings
136. Email Settings
137. Advanced Settings
138. Product categories
139. Product Tags
140. Custom Taxonomy
141. Simple Product and Product Meta
142. Variable Products
143. External or Affiliate Product
144. Virtual and Downloadable Products
145. Grouped Products
146. Lets Recall
147. Adding More Products
148. Creating Menu
149. Theme Customizer
150. Homepage & Featured Products
151. Power of shortcodes
152. Static vs Dynamic Pages
153. How different themes work?
154. Theme that I recommend
155. How to choose colors
156. Designing Header
157. Logo
158. Designing Footer
159. Payment icons
160. Woocommerce theme settings
161. Product Archives Design
162. Single Product Template Design
163. Widgets and Sidebar
164. Filter by Taxonomy
165. Search Results Page
166. Bug Fix
167. Before Staring the next lecture, enable the top bar editor
168. Global Colors to elementor
169. Hero Section wireframe
170. How to choose images for eCommerce site?
171. Designing the hero section
172. Free Shipping Section
173. Products Section Design
174. Dynamically display products
175. Product Category Section
176. Designing Tips
177. Featured Collection
178. New Arrival Section
179. Layout Structure
180. Cart, Checkout, My Account Page Design
181. Mobile Rendering: Header & Footer
182. Mobile Rendering: Archive Pages
183. Mobile Rendering: Single Template
184. Mobile Rendering: Home part 1
185. Mobile Rendering: Home part 2
186. Tablet Rendering
187. Older Version Lectures
188. eCommerce Advanced (Recently Added)
189. Why Pro?
190. Why Hello Elementor Theme?
191. Custom Header
192. Header: Menu and Cart Design
193. Menu Cart Dropdown Design
194. Custom Footer
195. Custom Footer part 2
196. Cart Page Design
197. Empty Cart Template Design
198. Checkout Page Design
199. My Account Page Design
200. Custom Dashboard Template