Académie WordPress : Apprendre WordPress étape par étape

1. Welcome To The Class!: WordPress powers a huge percentage of websites available today. You've almost certainly visited a website which runs on WordPress. Some of the biggest names and brands of trusted WordPress including Disney, PlayStation, MTV, Microsoft, Sony, and so many more. The good news is, it's easy for beginners to get started with and you don't need to know any coding to build amazing websites. During this course, I will guide you through the process of building multiple WordPress websites. Including a music festival landing page, a blog, and also an e-commerce site too. Once you are familiar with WordPress from these projects, we then step things up even further and introduce some code by converting a regular website into a fully custom WordPress theme. Before rounding things off by taking a look at how we can setup a WordPress multi-site installation. Who am I? My name is Chris and I'm a web developer from the UK. For me WordPress has allowed me to create lots of amazing sites for clients or businesses or personal use from a single landing page right through to a complex e-commerce site. It does this by providing a flexible core and then pose as a user and extend it with a huge selection of plug-ins, it extended the functionality. Let's jump into learning WordPress together by building some fun and educational project. I'll see you in the first lesson. 2. Share Your Work On Skillshare!: When taking any course, it's really important to not get in the habit of following along just for the sake of ticking off another lecture. Take the time to process each lesson. Review the code which you write, and think about how you might approach these solutions yourself. With this in mind, this class is project-based and this gives you the opportunity to really make something personal and unique. You don't need to get too lost and divert away from the class, and you can even take a step back after you've finished the class, and come back and make some project changes afterwards. This will really give you a good chance to practice what you've learned away from the class. Also remember to share your project too here on Skillshare. Not only will I check it out, but it will also inspire fellow students too. For more information on the class project, head into the Project and Resources tab, where you can not only upload your project, but you can also see other class projects too. With this in mind, I look forward to seeing what you create and upload here on Skillshare. 3. Why WordPress?: WordPress originally began life as a blogging platform and it's now grown into the most popular content management system available today, which also powers some of the world's most popular websites. WordPress is completely free to use, free to download, and it's also built by hundreds of community volunteers along with all of the great features which WordPress provides. We'll find out about these during the course. One of the things I really love about WordPress is that it has something for everybody. If you are a non-technical person or a beginner, you can buy some simple web hosting, use a one click installation, select your theme and you have your very own website or blog in under half an hour. For web designers or developers or general people who want to jump in a bit deeper, there is also many great things you can do technically to make a really powerful website. You can call your own themes and also plugins to make WordPress look and function exactly how you want it to be. WordPress is also under constant development too, its always improving, whether that's a security fix or a new feature to keep WordPress from becoming outdated. Also the creators of WordPress have made these updates really easy to apply too. You don't need to worry about complicated updates and installations. These updates are generally performed from the WordPress dashboard and often just involve the click of a button. As you can also see from the WordPress homepage which is wordpress.org, there is also many different themes you can choose. If we go into the theme section we can see there is over 7,000 different themes are present. These will allow us to build almost any type of website which we want to create. When we actually create a WordPress website, all of the content stays exactly the same, and we can then switch between different themes to give our content or our site a completely different look and feel. On the first set of WordPress some of the themes will be pre-installed, or we can search through any of these themes from wordpress.org. These are free themes to set up our projects. Along with these free themes there is also premium themes available too, which you can also buy on websites such as ThemeForest, but we'll look at this in more detail as we progress through the course. The WordPress core which we are going to download is really simple yet very powerful, and also packed with lots of features. However, if there is some functionality missing which your app or website needs, then this functionality is more than likely going to be available as a plugin. Plugins are pretty much what they sound like. They are something you can download to plugin and extend the WordPress core. They add functionality and features which are usually simple to install as clicking on a few buttons, but again we will take a look at plugins in more detail later in the course. Some of the other WordPress benefits are that it's really search engine friendly. By using WordPress, many SEO best practices are already taken care of for us behind the scenes. If you want to take it even further there is also some great plugins too, which well take a look at it in the plugins video. Lastly, WordPress has a really useful mobile app for iOS and Android which is free to download. The app allows you to write WordPress contents and also update your website on the move. It can even upload photos, manage blog posts, manage all comments, and also edit pages as you go. These are some great reasons for choosing WordPress. Of course, there are many more and I'm sure you'll find your own reasons for using WordPress as you progress through this course. 4. WordPress.org or WordPress.com?: Let's begin with WordPress.org, which is the homepage for the popular open source WordPress software. Open source means anybody can use this or contribute to it free of charge. This is the site for the official WordPress software, which we are going to be using to create our project through out this course. We download it, we can customize it and uploaded to a live server when complete. It basically gives us the total flexibility since it's completely self hosted, and also hosting costs for WordPress a relatively cheap when it first started out. At the top navigation of this page, you can see here that we have the available plugins and themes which we can then use. We'll make use of both of these throughout this course. There is also a support section where we can have full access to the WordPress documentation, which we're going to refer to quite often, and of course, everything we need from installing themes, right through to security topics. The actual software is available from clicking on this get WordPress button, and this is one of the setup options which we're going to take a look at very soon. Download this software as mentioned will give us the total flexibility and control over everything we're going to do with our WordPress site, or there is an alternative which is available from Wordpress.com. Wordpress.com is more of a service which will allow us to have a WordPress site, posted photos. It uses the same WordPress software which we just looked at, it takes away this setup and provides hosting for this software. This site was created by one of the WordPress founders. For the ease of setup does come at a cost. We don't have the flexibility we have when self-hosting. Under also by restrictions on which themes plugins we can use, depending on exactly which paid plan which you use. With this in mind, if we click on a Plans and Pricing from the navigation, there is various different price levels along with a free option, which we can see at the top, is 3ca coming option when starting out. But it does also place advertising banners on your site, which you probably don't want. We then have options from a personal side right through to an e-commerce store. We can see these options in more detail, if we scroll down to this table. As far as I mentioned, there is some restrictions, as you can see here when using Wordpress.com, and these restrictions are lifted as we go through higher pricing options. WordPress.org is the one to go for if we want full control over our site, and we are happy to do a little set up work. We're going to be choosing this path through out this course, or this site which is WordPress.com is a good option if you want everything taken care of for you. But remember there are restrictions unless you go for the more expensive plans. 5. Where To Find WordPress Themes: This course doesn't require any purchases for a theme or any additional software. Though at some point in the future, you may be using WordPress to build lots and lots of sites, whether that's for a job, or paying clients, or for businesses. For this use case, you may also want to look at some premium theme options. One of the options for this is themeforest.net. This is a marketplace for not only WordPress themes, but also money of a code, snippets, photos, and also videos too. We're going to be focusing on the WordPress themes which we can go to from this tab. From here, we can check out all of the different categories, we can also search using the search bar up at the very top and there is generally themes available for pretty much any type of WordPress site which you want to create. For example, if we want to create a wedding website, we can do a search, and the wedding search returns over a thousand different themes to choose from. As I mentioned, it's mostly paid content on this site, but this price also does often include support too. It is also many people and companies making a full-time living, creating themes and selling them on marketplaces just like this. If we go back to the popular items, we can see some of the popular themes such as the Avada theme, this is currently one of the most popular themes and it has hundreds of thousands of sales. We can take a look at the live preview and see exactly how this theme will look with various layouts, we can scroll through any of these themes and check out all the features which comes with it and generally, many of these themes have lots of different options for layouts or changing the color and the