WordPress Beginner Course

The main objective of this course is to help you jump start your web creation journey with WordPress. In this course, you will learn how to optimize the two main features of the WP Editor to create a website. These 2 main features represent 20% of the features that are used 80% of the time.

As the saying goes, it is not how much you know that matters but how much you put into use what you know that is important.

The knowledge and skill set that you will acquire from this course would serve to lay the basic foundation for using WordPress.

It will help you to begin building professional looking websites.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is the most powerful website builder in the world. More than 34% of the websites on the internet are built with this CMS. Back in 2003, developers Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created a platform for anyone, beginner or advanced to publish their content online without any hassle.

They came up with what is known now as WordPress. WordPress is an open-source website builder based on PHP. It is also under a GPL certificate. Which means anyone can work on it and add to or remove features from it.

This feature allowed developers around the world to work on This open-source CMS and it became what it is today. More than 14% of popular websites are built by WordPress.

WordPress is Expandable

Most WordPress users don’t have any programming knowledge. If you don’t have any designing or programming knowledge and still looking for ways to add multiple features to your website. You shouldn’t worry.

WordPress allows you to use different themes and plugins to add design and features to your website. There are thousands of free and premium themes and plugins you can choose from, and most of them are easily configured.

WordPress comes with many default features. However, the default features aren’t enough for some businesses or personal blogs. If you are amongst those users, you can simply use plugins to add extra features to your website.

There are literally more than 50,000 plugins to choose from. By installing plugins, you can add custom functionality to the website. For Example, by installing the Yoast SEO plugin you can optimize the website and achieve high ranks in search engines.

With so much to be gained from WordPress, why not dive in and enjoy those benefits?