Advanced Wordpress

Whether you're a business owner, an entrepreneur, a marketing manager or a website designer with not much experience in WordPress, this course will teach you how to build a great-looking, high-performing WordPress-powered website, without spending more money than you have to.

When you complete the course, you'll be a lot more comfortable at publishing and editing your own WordPress website – and being aware of the pitfalls to avoid.

You'll be shown how to set up your domain, what host to use, how to install WordPress and what settings are essential to get right at the beginning.

You'll also be shown how and why you should use the Genesis Theme Framework and how to manage your own site design within a Genesis Child Theme.

You'll learn…

How to register a domain, where to register it and how to point the domain towards your website host
What the difference between different website hosting options are and which option is right for them
How to set up WordPress on both HostGator and Traffic Planet Hosting
How to edit the core WordPress settings to ensure that the site set-up is optimized
How to install and optimize Genesis, the leading WordPress Theme Framework and understand why using Genesis is important
How to find, select, install, optimize and personalise Genesis Child Themes so that the overall site design is modern and appealing
What WordPress Widgets are, how to use them and how they add additional site functionality
What WordPress Plugins do, why they are important and how they impact different aspects of a site
No prior knowledge is required. However, you should have an intention to or a desire to build a great-looking, modern, WordPress-powered website

If you're a frustrated website manager, a designer that needs to understand how to really use WordPress or a freelance entrepreneur that wants to build your own site, then this course is ideal for you.

0:00 - 1 How to Upgrade WordPress Using cPanel
18:11 - 2 How to Delete WordPress Using cPanel
23:16 - 3 How to Upgrade WordPress Automatically
25:11 - 4 How to Create Backups for Your WordPress Blog
31:26 - 5 How to Edit Your WordPress Theme
35:25 - 6 How to Create a Static Front Page
38:46 - 7 Introduction to Getting a FeedBurner Account
42:58 - 8 Optimizing Your FeedBurner RSS Feed
48:22 - 9 Redirecting Default RSS Feeds to Feedburner
51:00 - 10 Using The FeedBurner Email Subscrription Form
53:17 - 11 Importing Content from BlogSpot to WordPress
56:10 - 12 Importing Content from WordPress to WordPress
1:02:33 - 13 Setting Up Google Analytics
1:09:54 - 14 Using Google Analytics with WordPress
1:14:49 - 15 Introduction to Using Disqus
1:20:33 - 16 Installing Using Disqus with WordPress
1:24:22 - 17 Moderating Disqus Comments in WordPress
1:28:14 - 18 WPTouch Installing The Mobile Extension
1:30:45 - 19 WPTouch Customize Your Mobile Theme