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WordPress Academy: Learn WordPress step by step

Introduction & Getting Started

Welcome (2:47)
Why WordPress? (3:27)
WordPress.org or WordPress.com? (3:32)
Where to find WordPress themes (4:40)

Installing WordPress

The WordPress web server (2:07)
Option 1: Installing with Local (recommended) (4:21)
Option 2: Installing with MAMP (6:19)
WordPress dashboard (4:15)
WordPress files & folders (3:20)

Let's get building: Music Festival Project

What we will be building (1:51)
Installing themes (3:30)
Creating our first page (6:54)
The media library (3:19)
The Gutenberg editor (13:27)
Widgets (5:00)

WordPress Blog

What we will be building (2:06)
Project setup (2:38)
Import sample data (3:43)
Adding & updating posts (6:56)
Where to find great photos for your blog posts (5:48)
Including media (6:28)
Users, permissions & managing comments (7:41)
Adding pages (5:30)
Adding our navigation menu (4:50)

Customising Our Site: WordPress Blog

Download project images
The customiser & site identity (7:52)
Adding the header image (2:16)
Adding a logo & background image (3:56)
Plugins & social media integration (6:14)
Home page setup & widgets part 1 (9:31)
Home page setup & widgets part 2 (6:54)
Creating the footer (5:54)
Adding a slider (5:24)
Creating the contact form (7:45)
Adding press this (2:58)
Improving SEO (10:22)
Backing up your site (7:49)

WordPress eCommerce: T-Shirt Store

Database setup & WordPress installation (4:01)
Course update: please read
Getting started with WooCommerce (10:03)
Why use child themes (2:06)
Download project images
Child theme setup (9:13)
Product categories, tags & attributes (8:09)
Adding products (7:31)
Home page layout & slider (9:55)
Customising the look of our store (3:41)
Flexible page layouts using Page Builder (7:08)
Rearranging menus (4:35)
The footer area (5:13)
WooCommerce settings (7:10)

PHP Basics / Refresher

Section requirements
Hello World (7:00)
Strings, variables & constants (10:14)
Data types & operators (5:56)
PHP Arrays (6:59)
PHP Functions (4:39)
Conditional statements & more operators (12:25)
Switch statements (4:31)
Loops (11:12)
The Codex (2:38)

Convert an existing website to WordPress

Database setup & WordPress installation (3:54)
Download static website template
Underscores starter theme (4:00)
Understanding WordPress / PHP templates (4:17)
Header & footer sections (6:33)
Adding the CSS & images (14:36)
Converting the front page (7:46)
Converting our menu (4:19)
Setting up the blog index page (6:23)
Setting up the blog posts (10:26)
Sidebar (5:19)
Single post page (7:19)
Converting the about page (4:13)
Search box & finishing touches (12:15)

WordPress Networking / Multisite Installation

Multisite intro (2:26)
What is a WordPress multisite? (8:15)
Activating a WordPress network (10:53)
Adding sites to the network (4:27)
Users & the super admin (4:36)
Plugins & themes (10:08)
Allowing users to add websites to the network: Part 1 (7:18)
Allowing users to add websites to the network: Part 2 (3:36)
Further reading & WordPress multisite plugin links

Bonus Lectures

Uploading to a live server (9:50)
Easy child theme plugins (2:50)
Removing sample data and resetting our database (4:12)

Thank You

Thank you (2:43)
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