WordPress Fundamentals for Beginners

Categories: WordPress
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About Course

Learn how to build and manage a WordPress website from scratch, even if you have no previous experience.

In this beginner-friendly course, you will learn how WordPress works, how to set up a website, create pages and posts, manage themes and plugins, build navigation menus, work with images and media, and prepare your website for launch.

You will also learn the fundamentals of WordPress performance optimization, SEO, security, backups, maintenance, and website testing.

The lessons are designed to be practical and easy to follow, with step-by-step demonstrations that you can apply while building your own website.

By the end of the course, you will build and launch a simple 5-page WordPress website and understand the essential skills needed to confidently manage a WordPress site.

This course is ideal for complete beginners, aspiring freelancers, virtual assistants, students, small business owners, and anyone who wants to learn WordPress as a practical digital skill.

Course Language: Video lessons are presented in Taglish (Tagalog + English), while lesson titles, notes, and learning materials are primarily written in English.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Understand how WordPress works and how websites are built with it
  • Set up a domain, web hosting, and WordPress installation
  • Navigate and manage the WordPress dashboard
  • Create and manage pages, blog posts, images, categories, and menus
  • Install and customize WordPress themes
  • Install and manage WordPress plugins
  • Build the essential pages of a complete WordPress website
  • Create a website header, footer, navigation menu, and contact form
  • Make a WordPress website mobile-friendly
  • Apply basic WordPress performance optimization
  • Set up basic WordPress SEO
  • Improve basic WordPress website security
  • Create backups and perform basic website maintenance
  • Test and prepare a WordPress website for launch
  • Build and launch a complete 5-page WordPress website

Course Content

Getting Started with WordPress
Learn the basics of WordPress, how it works, the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and what you need before building your first website. This module also introduces the course structure and what you will accomplish by the end of the course.

  • What Is WordPress?
  • WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
  • What You Need Before Building a WordPress Website
  • How This WordPress Course Works

Setting Up WordPress
Learn how domains, web hosting, and DNS work together, how to install WordPress, and how to navigate the WordPress dashboard. You will also configure important WordPress settings and understand user roles and permissions.

Creating and Managing Content
Learn how to create and manage website content in WordPress. This module covers pages, posts, the WordPress Block Editor, images and media, categories, tags, and the basic tools used to organize website content.

Themes and Plugins
Learn how WordPress themes and plugins work and how they extend the design and functionality of your website. You will learn how to install, customize, update, and manage themes and plugins safely.

Building Your First WordPress Website
Put your WordPress knowledge into practice by building the main parts of a website. You will create essential pages, set up the homepage, build navigation menus, create the header and footer, add a contact form, manage media, and make the website mobile-friendly.

Basic WordPress Performance Optimization
Learn the fundamentals of improving WordPress website speed and performance. This module covers website speed testing, image optimization, caching, basic CSS and JavaScript optimization, CDN usage, plugin optimization, and a basic performance checklist.

Basic WordPress SEO Setup
Learn how to prepare your WordPress website for search engines. You will install and configure an SEO plugin, set SEO-friendly URLs, create page titles and meta descriptions, understand XML sitemaps, and connect Google Search Console and Google Analytics.

WordPress Security Basics
Learn essential WordPress security practices to help protect your website. This module covers strong passwords, two-factor authentication, user permissions, security plugins, updates, Cloudflare, and a basic WordPress security checklist.

WordPress Backups and Maintenance
Learn how to keep your WordPress website healthy after it is built. You will learn how to create backups, safely update WordPress, themes, and plugins, use WordPress Site Health, troubleshoot common issues, and perform basic security and performance maintenance.

Website Launch and Final QA
Prepare your WordPress website for launch by completing a final quality assurance process. You will test links, forms, navigation, mobile responsiveness, performance, SEO settings, security, backups, and other important website elements before going live.

Final Project
Apply everything you learned in the course by building and launching a complete 5-page WordPress website. Your final website should include a Home page, About page, Services page, Blog, and Contact page with proper navigation, basic optimization, SEO, security, and final testing.

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