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WordPress Essential Training
John Hersey

WordPress Essential Training

with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

 


This course shows how to get the most out of the self-hosted version of WordPress 3.x and create feature-rich blogs and websites. Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen explains how to get a web host, set up a domain, and download, configure, and upload WordPress to your newly hosted site. The course then dives fully into the tools in WordPress, demonstrating how to set up your profile and create content to share with your web audience. The course also includes tutorials on everything from adding images, video, formatting, and links that make posts pop, to installing plugins, creating custom themes, and attracting readers with permalinks, social sharing, and more.

Note: This course is also useful for migrating a blog from WordPress.com to a self-hosting solution.
Topics include:
  • Building and modifying a profile
  • Publishing posts and pages
  • Utilizing page templates
  • Inserting images, video, and other media
  • Working with themes
  • Understanding widgets
  • Creating child themes
  • Working with the Twenty Twelve theme
  • Setting up a site for search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Ensuring site security

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author
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
subject
Web, CMS, Web Design
software
WordPress 3.x
level
Beginner
duration
6h 43m
released
Apr 19, 2012
updated
Dec 18, 2012

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Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Morten Rand-Hendriksen is a web designer and developer with a passion for clean design, standards-based code, and open-source software. He has published several books, articles, and videos on these topics and is a popular speaker at conferences. Running a small boutique-style digital media company, he divides his time evenly between building web solutions and teaching others how to do things right and get the most out of the web. Morten grew up in Norway and made Canada his home in 2002.
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WordPress Mobile Solutions Beginner 44m 26s 08/2012  {8}
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Start with a Theme: Video Blogs in WordPress Beginner 58m 39s 02/2013  {8}
Installing and Running WordPress: WAMP Beginner 47m 59s 02/2013  {8}
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Installing and Running WordPress: BitNami Beginner 59m 31s 02/2013  {8}
Installing and Running WordPress: WebMatrix Beginner 43m 11s 02/2013  {8}
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WordPress Ecommerce: Easy Digital Downloads Beginner 1h 32m 04/2013  {8}
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Start with a Theme: Food Blogs in WordPress Beginner 1h 24m 07/2013  {8}

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