WordPress for Beginners 2019: A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering WordPress

by Andy Williams

Master WordPress using our step-by-step visual approach (over 330 screenshots). This book is a major new release for 2019, covering the latest version of WordPress. Building a beautiful, professional looking WordPress website (or a blog), is no longer the domain of computer geeks. WordPress makes it possible for anyone to create and run 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. 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 important topics • The two different versions of WordPress. • Website hosting and domain registrars. How to set this up with separate registrar and host, for more security. • How to install WordPress. • An overview of the Dashboard including how to find hidden items. • Cleaning out the stuff that is installed by default. • Finding and installing WordPress themes to instantly change the look and feel of your website. • Plugins. What they are and how you can use them to create magnificent websites. • How to update WordPress, themes and plugins. • Every single Dashboard setting, what they do, and what you should use in the settings of your website. • How to find and use the RSS feeds on your site to help search engines find your content. • The importance of user profiles, and how to assign a "Gravatar" image to your email address. • How to create great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking and related post sections. • Enabling and dealing with visitor comments. • Using the media library for images, video and more. • The difference between pages and posts, and a simple way to know which one you should be using for each bit of content you publish on your website. • Effective use of categories and tags. Using these incorrectly can get your site penalised or even banned from search engines. • How to create content using both the Classic editor and the new Gutenberg editor. • How to publish posts, and even schedule them so they will be published at some future date. • Using post revisions. • Two different types of homepage. A blog style page v a more traditional "static" homepage. • Using widgets on your site to add neat features. We'll also cover those vital plugins every site need, • Automatically take backups and get them sent to the cloud. • Automatically create important legal 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. • Setup good SEO practices. • Setup social sharing buttons on your site, so visitors can easily tell their friends about your great web pages. Most people learn better when they can actually see what they are reading about, so one thing this book isn't, is shy about screenshots. There are over 330 of them, showing you exactly 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

229 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2018

About the author

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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.

Reviews

[Carmelo Serrano Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great For Beginners

I had no idea how to use WordPress before this book. I was yanking my hair for two hours straight before giving up on WordPress...

Until I found this book, it is very easy to follow and lays out how to use WordPress in a very logical order. After speeding through this book to about 3 days, I can comfortably say that I know the basics of WordPress.

Would recommend to all beginners. This book doesn't get technical so the more WordPress savvy should stay away from It.

[C.M. Rutherford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offered some good insight to the WordPress platform. It gave good step by step instructions on initial set-up of a WordPress blog. The order in which the topics were covered were a little odd to me. Seems some of the topics could have been covered in earlier chapters than what they were introduced. The author seemed to think it was the way to go about setting up so I will defer to his experience as I am still new to WP. Overall the book was very helpful and covered a great deal of information.

[Ali Hanyaloglu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great place to start with WordPress

An excellent introduction to setting up your own WordPress site. Andy gets right to the best ways to configure your site, best practices for your content, and which plugins he feels are must-haves. After reading this and following along I feel much more confident in building my own hosted WordPress sites and learning even more.

[Bill Atkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compact and thorough

This book has given me the info and confidence to move forward with building my site, which I have been procrastinating for months. Straight-forward instructions, good visuals, and homework to reinforce the reading.

[Janet]

Step by step instruction to get you going. This book got me through when I realized that setting up a website isn’t as intuitive as I (had been led to) believe.

[Sylvia Mcgrath · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book helped me put together two new websites over the past two months. Easy to follow instructuons, I found it to be a great help.

[Gevera Piedmont]

Dnf gave up on wordpress business plan

[Eric Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book saved me so much time and pain!

Dr. Williams’ book is for beginners, but more than that, it’s a blueprint for getting up an running quickly. He takes it step-by-step and includes specific instructions and detailed diagrams. Using his book, we were able to get our site up quickly and with security. Highly recommended to anyone starting to create a site or blog using Wordpress; it’s a bargain too.

[CYNTHIA VELA]

good