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WordPress for Beginners 2023: 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 2023, covering the latest version of WordPress. If major changes do occur during 2023, 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.Setup good SEO practices.Setup social sharing buttons on your site, 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. There are over 400 of them, 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.
This book is a major new release for 2023, covering the latest version of WordPress. If major changes do occur during 2023, 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.Setup good SEO practices.Setup social sharing buttons on your site, 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. There are over 400 of them, 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.
420 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 12, 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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October 8, 2023
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As a Wordpress expert I like to recommend books to my staff and developers/designers. This is a pretty thorough book that covers most everything you need to familiarize yourself with the platform.
As a Wordpress expert I like to recommend books to my staff and developers/designers. This is a pretty thorough book that covers most everything you need to familiarize yourself with the platform.
January 16, 2024
Good introduction
This guide has lots of information. Some of it is basic, but some requires more computer literacy than the reader has. The author prefers websites made up of posts instead of pages, so doesn't explain using pages as well.
This guide has lots of information. Some of it is basic, but some requires more computer literacy than the reader has. The author prefers websites made up of posts instead of pages, so doesn't explain using pages as well.
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