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Wordpress for Absolute Beginners - Master Wordpress Quickly Learn Wordpress

teacher avatar Jenius L., Web Developer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:01

    • 2.

      How To Get A Hosting And Domain

      1:16

    • 3.

      How To Install Wordpress

      1:45

    • 4.

      How to create menus

      1:21

    • 5.

      The wordpress dashboard

      2:20

    • 6.

      How to install they Astra theme

      1:06

    • 7.

      Setting up Frontpage

      0:41

    • 8.

      How to Install The Page Builder

      0:56

    • 9.

      How To Implement Lay outs

      1:08

    • 10.

      How To Use Brizy Blocks

      2:34

    • 11.

      Elementor How To make a Website With Elementor(9)

      0:56

    • 12.

      Elementor How To make a Website With Elementor

      9:13

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aster WordPress and Build Stunning Websites Without Coding!

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1. Introduction: Welcome people, welcome to this class. I'll teach you how to create your very own website with a pretty page builder. So the first thing I'm going to teach you is getting a hosting company. The second thing is he so WordPress the dirty. Instead we're going to implement blocks like this. You can select them and click on it and implemented what clique. So the main goal to projects of the Skillshare project is to post your very own blocks into your website and published in the project section. There are a lot of blocks to choose from. You can also see the layout to implement them in one click. Edit to edit them directly drove Facebook. Well, here's 100 blocks are ready to use. If I click Mondays, e.g. it will be imported directly through your website. So that's great. That's awesome. So all boys Seaway, Mike left. 2. How To Get A Hosting And Domain : In this video, I will show you how to sign up for your hosting account. You need hosting because there you can place your website and manage your website. Right over here, we got three kinds of plants naturally plan the Baby Plan and the Business Plan. A highly recommend to take the baby then, because with the hatchling plan, you can chose, you can host only one domain. But with the baby blend, you can host unlimited websites. So right over here, I'm going to click on by now. And I'll wait until it's loaded and enter here desired domain name, e.g. websites, GTR S. And this is gonna be your new domain name if it's available. And it's available. So we can choose that one. And I'm going to scroll down. You can select one month or two months or three months. And so you can fill in here all your information. You'd need us to manage your websites again. So right over here, you have additional services. We don't need them. I'm going to de-select them. Depends on what you want. Right over here. We are going to install WordPress in the next lecture. 3. How To Install Wordpress: In this video, I'll show you how to install WordPress. Wordpress is a content management system that we're going to use for this course. So you can manage and create your website and WordPress. Right over here, I'm going to scroll down. And I'm going to click on WordPress manager by soft calculus. And I'm going to click on it and I'll wait until it's loaded. And whatever here, you've got my installations. I'm going to click on Install. And I will select here my primary domain, does Mario, yep, that's gum. And I'm going to enter here a sub directory, but you can keep this empty. I'm then going to enter e.g. of course. One, of course is to get you right over here, you can enter your username, e.g. user 12th, and your password right over here. You can essentially installation details to your email. So it is really a useful and I'm going to click on Install. And we will wait until it's loaded. So the system you're hosting a panel is now installing WordPress. So I will pause the video and come back. Okay, So right over here, your WordPress installation is successful. So that's great. So I'm going to click a mirror web courses too. And there we are. We are now nearly at the WordPress dashboard. Congratulations. So that's nice. So I'm going to teach you a lot of things in WordPress, how you create your very own website with WordPress. So I hope to see you in the next lecture and keep watching. And thank you. 4. How to create menus: So now, I'll show you how to create menus for your WPress website. Right over here, I'm going to navigate to dashboard. Okay. Click on the left, right over here, you can select your pages, right here, select page, all pages or appearance and menu. You can use both of them. Right here, I'm going to enter menu one. Primary menu and click on the blue Save button. This is how you create the menu and I'm going to show you how you add pages to it. Right over here, I'm going to add pages to it. Let me think. Let's save it first, and right over there by click on A. And click on Home and sample page, and you've added a page to the navigation. Congratulations. This is a good step. Now you know now how to create menu. This is really useful, and we're going to make a beautiful website, so don't worry. It's going to be amazing. Over here, I'll click on save when I visit the website, we have those two menu right over here. Thank you for watching. 5. The wordpress dashboard: Hello, people. Welcome to your War Press desk part panel. In this panel, we're going to cover a lot of new stuff. I'm going to take you from a beginner to advanced Wpress user. I'm going to show you how you add posts. And I'm going to show you how you used media library. I'm also going to show you how you create a new page and what a page is. We're going to manage the comments way to plug in. And you're going to use this. But I'm going to explain it later. Are we going to customize our team? Are we going to install a team? So we're going to add plug ins. And I'm going to explain what a plugin is and how you add some plugins to your website. And I'm going to show you what Optim Monster is right over here. Here's Opt monster. We're going to change the color of war Press test port. If you want to change that color, maybe you like it to give it another color. So I'm going to show you how to do that. Click on Admin and Admin. Right above the screen. You can choose a default color. Or you can choose a light color, or you can choose the blue color. So feel free to look around a little bit and test out what you like. And yeah, midnight color. I like this one very much, but I'm used to defilt That's the best for me. So, we're going to cover a lot of things in the scores. Okay. This was a quick overview about the War Press Dashboard. And I hope I will see you in my next lecture. And now we're going to start with learning about this dashboard. Okay, I will see you soon, and thanks for watching. 6. How to install they Astra theme: Alright people, in this lecture, I will show you how you install the SDR team. So we need to SDR team for our page builder called breezy. So I'm going to go to Appearance Themes. And I'll wait until it's loaded. And I will click on Add New. And I think it's our Paris here on the top. If you click, Click on poplar and right over here yesterday. And I'm going to click on install. And we're going to install the SRD. And I'm gonna click Activate. Okay, so the SRE team is activated. So I'm going to click on visit site. Okay. This is your shot. You right now it looks empty, pretty ugly. And we're going to change a lot of things to make it a beautiful website with a page builder. So I'm gonna go back to the dashboard. And in the next lecture we are going to create menus. And after the menu is, we are going to install the page builder. So I will see you all soon. Thanks. 7. Setting up Frontpage: In this quick lecture, I'll also show you how you set up your homepage. Right over here. I'll navigate to appearance, customize. And once it's loaded, I will select right over here. I will select Homepage Settings. And wrote over here, you can set up your menus right over here. So create menus and enter your menus. And we go back. And Derrida's homepage settings you and so you need to do this step. So we have to write page that shows on the homepage, the front page. So select here your homepage or sample page. 8. How to Install The Page Builder: So welcome at your WordPress dashboard. In this video, I will show you how you install the page builder called brucei. Brucei is a free page builder where you can create your own custom website with. It's a drag-and-drop page builder. So now let's get started. This is our website are now and I want to install the page builder. I'm going to scroll down, navigate to Plugins and Add New. And click here for search here for breezy. And there it is. So it got a lot of insults, 90,000. And I love this page builder. And I wrote over here, I'm installing it and it's insult. I'm going to click on activate. And you've successfully installed to your page builder. So don't worry, I'm going to explain everything step-by-step, how you misuse this. So I'll go on the top and I will see you in the next lecture. 9. How To Implement Lay outs: Alright, so you get a lot of templates to choose from, and I'm going to click on free. Right over here. I'm going to implement this one. And I will click on import layout and it's very easy to import your team and wallah, it's done. So you have your own website right now. So if you want to trust things, you can click on, Delete. And in other lecture I will show you how you edit your website. E.g. you can center this to something like this or this, or like here. And there's also here. Yes. You can delete the button. And we don't need this. Yes. So this was a little bit about how you implement a design, a layout. So yes. And I click on update. And if you decide, okay, is this looking amazing for your first website or for your second website? I don't know how far you are, but you've got a great site up and running in minutes. Okay, I want to see you, I'll see you in the next lecture. 10. How To Use Brizy Blocks: In this section, I'll also show you how I create blocks in breezy, in WordPress, the page builder. So the test for the project is that you built your own website, which are drag and drop builder and post it in the project section. I'll teach you how to create your very own website using blocks. Right over here. You've got a lot of blocks to choose from. A, you can choose from light to dark. And you have different categories that you can use. E.g. I. Want to use this block. And it's just implemented in a few clicks with no programming language at all. So if you want to edit something into work like this and just double-click and type something. And you want to customize this a little bit in Collect, select a different blocks and Skillshare class. You can use your own blocks and poses in the project section. So to show you, show the class what you have created. So I'm really excited to see what you create in class for class. And I wrote over here, I can update the website. And let's take a look at our website where we implemented blocks. That's looking amazing in my opinion, we create awesome stuff. You create also amazing sight. So yes, you can also use other blocks for your website and to create your own custom website. And I'm going to scroll down. And then another block which shapes saves hours of programming. Right over here. You've got your section. Work to get our section right over here, you can add a new block. I'm going to scroll all the way down. And it's something you can choose a hundreds of free blocks to customize your website and to get up and running in no time. So I will choose this one and I will add the contact section to finish this block, this website. And I just created in like 2 min or something else. So it's really amazing to break to create your own for your own website with WordPress is the best system and enrolled in my opinion. And right over here, I'm going to add some content section. There it is, one that we have it. Okay, so that was creating your own custom site with breezy blocks. So I hope you've learned a lot and I hope you post your project in the class. And it will look like your own custom. 11. Elementor How To make a Website With Elementor(9): So welcome at your W Price despert. In this video, I will show you how you install the page builder called Briz. Brice is a free page builder where you can create your own custom website with. It's a Dragon Drop page builder. So now let's get started. This is our website right now, and I want to install the page builder. I'm going to scroll down, navigate to plugins and a new. I'm going to click Search here for Brise there it is. So it gots a lot of installs, 90,000, and I love this page builder right over here. I'm installing it, and it's installed. I'm going to click and activate. Okay. And you've successfully installed your page builder. So don't worry. I'm going to explain you everything step by step, how you misuse this. So I'll go on the top and I will see you in the next lecture. Okay. 12. Elementor How To make a Website With Elementor: Welcome, people. Welcome to this brand new Wopres Tutorial. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how you create exactly the same website like me. You're going to create a very beautiful website with Wopres and with the arpres elementary page builder. Okay. In this video, I'm going to show you I create a hosting cop. I'm going to navigate to get started and we get our domain and hosting the ho gated. Right over here, you got three plans, the Hedling plan, the baby plan, and the basic plan. I highly recome the baby plan because with the baby plan, you host unlimited domains, and with the hesling plan with nearly the same price, you host only one domain. This is a very important step. I should choose for the baby plan. Right over here, you can answer your domain name. I'm going to call Jarret my design. Right over here. And you can select pricing plan. Highly recommit to one month. And here, you can select the glin or the baby or the business plan. So I recommit the baby plan. And right over here. You can enter your information. You can check out with your credit card with Papal yes, right over here, you need it, and we want it so cheap as possible. And right over here, you can enter the coupon code Jared 26 and we'll give you a large discount on the first month. So right over here, is your discount, $28.29, right over here. I'm going to agree. So let's install warps. Warpa as the cotton management system that we need for this tutorial, so we are going to install Warpres on your hosting panel. You need hosting because you need to install wpress in it on it. So warps is completely free, right over here. I'm going to click on Install. I'm going to select my primary domain. Select here domain that you just purchased at a hostter.com. I'm going to call it another tutorial. You can keep that directory empty, or for practicing, you can use it. Right over here, you're going to enter your password. So I'm going to call this, for example, my new site. And right over here. And you can choose templates, design and click Install. If you want to e mail your details to email, enter your email there and click Install. So I'm not going to say this puzzword Installing right now and I will come back when it's finished. So now we're going to install the Elementor page builder, a very popular page builder for war Press. Right over here, I'm going to search for Elementor. And I'm going to click on the Install. I knew this plug in when it got 100,000 installs. I got now more than 50 million installs. So right over here, I'm going to activate it. And I'll wait until it's loaded. So we need to set up this right over here. You can continue with the hello team, so your team will automatically install right now, your design, right over here. I'm going to call it my tutorial. And I will go to the next step. If you have a logo, you can add it there and right over here. You can chop browse from 100 templates or import your own. Link is in the description. Right over here, we're going to show you the element or templates. So templates are actually designs that you can implement. So I'm going to navigate on popular. And I'll wait and you've got free templates. So are going to navigate to the free templates? They are not looking beautiful, but if you want a more familiar better website that looks really more advanced, you can purchase the Elementary page builder. So that is Lincon description. And you can make almost any website with Elementor. If you want to create a business website, you can select the template and imported in one click. So it's much cheaper than you go to web developer web development company. Sorry. So holy we're coming to us as Elementor because it's fast, good, clean and fresh designs. So, and now I'm going to navigate to the plugins and new. I'm going to search for teams. So I searching right now, and we are going to install a team layout pack so you can implement designs in just minutes. I'm going to navigate to the plug in, and that is right over me look. There, SKT templates. Right over here, links and description. I click Install and I'll wait until it's installed. So I'm going to click on elementary templates, and here you've got a lot of beautiful free designs that you can implement in just one click. So you don't need any coding else required for this. So I'm going to import one, you can make almost any website in this tutorial. So I highly recommit to build your website by your own. So right over here, you got beautiful designs, if you want to build Beautiful website. Yes yes. Let's look further to all the designs to show you what you can do with war press. War press is very easy. In the beginning, it's maybe a little bit hard, but if you practice, it will become easier and easier. Normally, you pay $60 for a template, and here they are free. You only pay for the hosting, and if you want to implement elementor templates, you pay for Elementary. But this is totally free. Right over here, I'm going to implement one team to show how it looks. Okay. It's loading. So this is looking really professional for your website in my opinion, so you can import it also in one click. If I click on the blue Import button right above there, you can import this templates. So I'm going to search for another template to show you what you can do with this plug in. So you need this plug in to install the templates. It's totally free. So I'm going to take this one because this one looks very nice in my opinion, and So let me look. So, this is your site right now. It's looking really professional, so you get your up and running in just 10 minutes. So right over here. I'm going to change this to show you how you customize your website right now. I'm going to type here, whatever you want. Just drag and drop. So much easier than programming your own website right over here. I'm going to enter something, for example, welcome to the site or to my portfolio. Welcome people. So this is your site right now. And we're going to customize this. So I'm going to use an image, and I already download the images from unsplash.com. Right over here, I'm going to insert the media and take it look how it looks. Okay, this is looking beautiful in my opinion. It's fresh, clean, and modern, but we're going to customize a lot of this. So I'm going to show you how I create almost any website with this page builder with this teams. Sorry. Right over here, you can trash something easily. Saves hours of programming, right over here. You can click on it in search your YouTube link if you want to promote your video on your website, So I want to show you it's not hard. Maybe in the beginning. It looks always difficult in the beginning with you but you will learn more and more about the Elementary page builder, and first we time when I used the Elementary page builder, it was really difficult for me. But now I have some knowledge about it, so it's really easy. Right over here, I want to show the beautiful website we just created in minutes. So this is beautiful in my opinion. So let's switch to the Elementary page builder. Right over here, you can insert blocks and pages. Most are premium blocks. So if you want to build a fans website or more complex, you can implement pro blocks if you purchase Elementor. Right over here. I'm going to slide for testimonials, and I will import one. Let me look and I'll import this one. This one is very clean and modern. Okay, we're going to implement the last block for this website, and I'm going to click on Insert and we are nearly done. So the last section that we're going to add the block is this one to the contact section. So enter here whatever you want and your email in the green text. So let's take a look how it looks right now. Okay. I earthly earthy.