WordPress in easy steps: Web Development for Beginners - covers WordPress 4

by Darryl Bartlett

Overview

WordPress is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) and is a fantastic tool for blogs and building websites. It is used by over 50% of the 100 top world blogs, and there are estimated to be over 69 million WordPress websites.

Many bloggers/web developers are turning to WordPress to create great websites. It has the ability for people of a non-technical background to create their own website/blog in easy steps, all the way up to advanced web developers to create stunning professional designs.

WordPress in easy steps guides you through:

Setting Up WordPress
Working with the Dashboard
Creating Site Content
Adding Media
Appearance and Themes
Adding Plugins
Comments
Setting up Users and Privileges
Tools and Settings
WordPress Tricks

WordPress in easy steps is for:

Bloggers/Hobbyist web designers, or those looking to design a website who don’t want to learn technical language, or bloggers looking for a great platform to work with.

Web Developers: A lot of professional web design companies are using WordPress to build their websites for clients because it provides a great content management system so that the end user can add their own content once development is complete.

Anybody who has had a WordPress website built for them and wants guidance to help them update their own website.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840786347
Publisher:	In Easy Steps Limited
Publication date:	04/28/2015
Series:	In Easy Steps
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Darryl Bartlett has a wide experience in the world of web design and development especially using the WordPress platform. He has worked with top companies like Fellowship Productions, Printing.com and Jagex. He also builds websites for local businesses and works on apps for various platforms. He lives in Suffolk, U.K.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to WordPress 7

Overview 8

Why Use WordPress? 9

What Can I Build? 11

WordPress Hosting 12

Using WordPress.com 15

Planning Your Website 16

Blog vs Website 18

Business Websites 20

2 Dashboard & Users 21

Dashboard Overview 22

Admin Bar Links 23

Dashboard Menu Options 24

Introducing Users 26

Adding Users 27

Changing User Roles 28

3 Appearance & Themes 29

Introduction to Themes 30

Adding Themes 31

Uploading a Theme 34

Customize Your Theme 36

Customizing Menus 37

Adding Widgets 39

The Editor 42

4 Creating Conent 43

Pages & Posts Differences 44

Creating a Page 46

Creating a Post 48

Adding Text 49

Adding Images 52

Adding Videos 55

Adding HTML Code 56

Adding Audio 58

Creating Categories 59

Sliders 61

5 Plugins 67

Finding & Installing 68

Uploading a Plugin 72

Installed Plugins 73

Updating Plugins 74

Must-have Plugins 75

Plugins Editor 76

6 Creating an Online Store 77

WooCommerce Setup 78

Adding Products 80

Checkout 84

Shipping 86

Viewing Orders 88

Advanced Product Options 90

7 Setting & Tools 95

General Settings 96

Writing Settings 97

Reading Settings 98

Discussion Settings 99

Media Settings 102

Permalinks Settings 103

Tools 104

8 SEO & Social Media 105

Wordpress SEO by Yoast 106

Social Media Overview 111

Share Buttons 112

Twitter Feed 114

Instagram Photos 117

9 User Interaction 119

Comments 120

Akismet & Spam 122

Forums 123

Contact Forms 129

Website Translation 131

Membership Levels 135

10 Tips & Tricks 141

Google Analytics 142

Google Maps 144

Using CSS 146

Newsletter Forms 150

Sitemaps 157

Google Fonts 159

11 Advanced WordPress 161

WordPress & PHP 162

Setting up FTP 163

Creating a Theme 166

WordPress Backup 175

Responsive Design 179

Index 187