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WordPress for Beginners 2024: A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering WordPress
Master WordPress using our proven step-by-step visual approach.
This book is a major new release for 2024, covering the latest version of WordPress. If major changes do occur during 2024, there's a web page to get free updates so you'll always be up to date and not left on your own to work stuff out.
Building a beautiful, professional-looking WordPress website (or a blog) is no longer the computer geeks' domain. WordPress makes it possible for anyone to create a website that looks great on any device - PC, Mac, tablet, and phone. Whether you want to build a business site, an affiliate site, a hobby site, or a blog, WordPress is a great choice, and this book shows you how. The primary goal of this book is to take anyone, even an absolute beginner, from zero to WordPress "guru" in a few short hours.
Inside this book, veteran WordPress expert Andy Williams will start at the very beginning. You'll learn essential topics two different versions of WordPress.How to set up web hosting and domain registrar the correct way.Installing WordPress and finding your way around the Dashboard.Finding and installing WordPress themes to change the look and feel of your website instantly.What Plugins are and how they can add fabulous features to your site.How to update WordPress, themes, and plugins.Understand every single setting, including my recommended defaults.How to find and use the RSS feeds to help search engines find your content.Importance of user-profiles and assigning an image (Gravatar) to your email address.Creating great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking, and related posts.Enabling and dealing with visitor comments.Using the media library for images, video, and more.The difference between pages and posts, and when to use each one.Effective use of categories and tags. Misusing these can get your site penalized or even banned from search engines.How to create content using both the Classic editor and the new Gutenberg editor.Publish or schedule posts for a future date.Post revisions.Two different types of homepage. A blog-style page v a more traditional "static" homepage.Using widgets.Types of sites you can build with WordPress (blog, business, and a typical "hybrid" site), with videos on setting these up.A primer on the new Full Site Editor built into WordPress giving you total control over design.We'll also cover a few vital plugins take backups and get them sent to the cloud.Automatically create important pages on your site, like terms and privacy policy.Creating a contact page so visitors can contact you.Add a related posts section to the end of every post to keep visitors on site longer.Good SEO practices.Social sharing buttons so visitors can easily share your pages with friends.Most people learn better when they can see what they are reading about, so this book isn't shy with screenshots - over 400 plus additional videos, showing you precisely what you will see on your screen and prompting you to take specific actions as you learn and master WordPress.
You may have heard that WordPress has a steep learning curve. With this book, you won't even notice it. Most chapters end with a "Tasks to Complete" section.
This book is a major new release for 2024, covering the latest version of WordPress. If major changes do occur during 2024, there's a web page to get free updates so you'll always be up to date and not left on your own to work stuff out.
Building a beautiful, professional-looking WordPress website (or a blog) is no longer the computer geeks' domain. WordPress makes it possible for anyone to create a website that looks great on any device - PC, Mac, tablet, and phone. Whether you want to build a business site, an affiliate site, a hobby site, or a blog, WordPress is a great choice, and this book shows you how. The primary goal of this book is to take anyone, even an absolute beginner, from zero to WordPress "guru" in a few short hours.
Inside this book, veteran WordPress expert Andy Williams will start at the very beginning. You'll learn essential topics two different versions of WordPress.How to set up web hosting and domain registrar the correct way.Installing WordPress and finding your way around the Dashboard.Finding and installing WordPress themes to change the look and feel of your website instantly.What Plugins are and how they can add fabulous features to your site.How to update WordPress, themes, and plugins.Understand every single setting, including my recommended defaults.How to find and use the RSS feeds to help search engines find your content.Importance of user-profiles and assigning an image (Gravatar) to your email address.Creating great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking, and related posts.Enabling and dealing with visitor comments.Using the media library for images, video, and more.The difference between pages and posts, and when to use each one.Effective use of categories and tags. Misusing these can get your site penalized or even banned from search engines.How to create content using both the Classic editor and the new Gutenberg editor.Publish or schedule posts for a future date.Post revisions.Two different types of homepage. A blog-style page v a more traditional "static" homepage.Using widgets.Types of sites you can build with WordPress (blog, business, and a typical "hybrid" site), with videos on setting these up.A primer on the new Full Site Editor built into WordPress giving you total control over design.We'll also cover a few vital plugins take backups and get them sent to the cloud.Automatically create important pages on your site, like terms and privacy policy.Creating a contact page so visitors can contact you.Add a related posts section to the end of every post to keep visitors on site longer.Good SEO practices.Social sharing buttons so visitors can easily share your pages with friends.Most people learn better when they can see what they are reading about, so this book isn't shy with screenshots - over 400 plus additional videos, showing you precisely what you will see on your screen and prompting you to take specific actions as you learn and master WordPress.
You may have heard that WordPress has a steep learning curve. With this book, you won't even notice it. Most chapters end with a "Tasks to Complete" section.
451 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 19, 2023
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Dr. Andy Williams
After graduating from Hull University (North Humberside, UK), I went on to do a Ph.D. at Cardiff University where I studied endocrinology in fish. After working as a research associate at Cardiff University I decided I wanted to be a teacher, so went back to University (this time Birmingham) to study for a teaching certificate.
My first teaching job took me to Tenerife, Spain where I met my wife to be. After a spell of teaching in Madrid, we went back to Tenerife. Two kids later, we now live in North Wales.
On a day to day basis, I write "How To" books and courses related to websites, SEO and other topics of interest to anyone running a website.
Dr. Andy Williams
After graduating from Hull University (North Humberside, UK), I went on to do a Ph.D. at Cardiff University where I studied endocrinology in fish. After working as a research associate at Cardiff University I decided I wanted to be a teacher, so went back to University (this time Birmingham) to study for a teaching certificate.
My first teaching job took me to Tenerife, Spain where I met my wife to be. After a spell of teaching in Madrid, we went back to Tenerife. Two kids later, we now live in North Wales.
On a day to day basis, I write "How To" books and courses related to websites, SEO and other topics of interest to anyone running a website.
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March 28, 2024
The Best Book on Getting WP up and running
Hands down the best book on getting WP up and running. There’s no fluff. No BS.
Straight up how to do it in plain language. There is nothing confusing or ambiguous.
The author is not trying to hawk plugins, services, or training programs costing hundreds or thousands of dollars. There are recommendations for plugins, as you would hope, but he uses the free versions. There is a link to a Udemy course for, I think it was $10 when I got it.
He doesn’t get into audience building or how to make money on your site. There are other books and courses for that.
I have nothing bad to say about this book. It does what it says it will do: give you a step by step guide to WordPress.
With that as our benchmark, it is THE perfect book on getting WordPress setup.
Hands down the best book on getting WP up and running. There’s no fluff. No BS.
Straight up how to do it in plain language. There is nothing confusing or ambiguous.
The author is not trying to hawk plugins, services, or training programs costing hundreds or thousands of dollars. There are recommendations for plugins, as you would hope, but he uses the free versions. There is a link to a Udemy course for, I think it was $10 when I got it.
He doesn’t get into audience building or how to make money on your site. There are other books and courses for that.
I have nothing bad to say about this book. It does what it says it will do: give you a step by step guide to WordPress.
With that as our benchmark, it is THE perfect book on getting WordPress setup.
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