WordPress.com Essential Training
2h 54mBeginner2022-04-06
Authors
Carrie Dils
Development, WordPress
Course details
Learn how to create your own website or blog with WordPress.com—the free, easy-to-use service that’s democratizing publishing on the web. Join instructor Carrie Dils as she shows how to sign up for a WordPress.com account, personalize your profile, and start posting right away. Plus, learn how to add images, videos, and links that make blog posts pop; enable social sharing; and change the appearance of your site with custom themes, blocks, and menus. Carrie also details newer features like Full Site Editing, which allows you to create an entire website with blocks, and tools like Crowdsignal, a WordPress.com integration that enables you to seamlessly add polls and surveys to your content. Drawing on her 20 years of experience developing for the web, Carrie also provides her insights on finding and growing an audience, as well as deciding when it's time to grow by upgrading your account or moving on to self-hosting with WordPress.org.
Skills covered
WordPressContent Management Systems (CMS)Essential TrainingWeb DevelopmentOpen Source
Concepts
Introduction
- Build a site with WordPress.com
- What you should know
Get to Know WordPress
- What is WordPress
- WordPress.com versus WordPress.org
- Types of WordPress.com accounts
- Types of sites you can build
Managing Your Account on WP.com
- Create your WordPress.com account
- Administrative area
- Update My Profile
- Adjust your account settings
- Manage purchases and payment methods
- Manage security settings
- Manage your privacy settings
- Manage your notification settings
Managing Your Site on WP.com
- Configure general site settings
- Optimize site performance
- Writing settings
- Site discussion settings
- Reading settings
- Hosting configuration
Creating Content
- Posts vs. pages
- Get familiar with the Block Editor
- Working with blocks
- Create and edit posts
- Publishing options
- Create and manage links
- Categories and tags
- Using excerpts
- Create a basic page
- Understand page attributes
Work with Images
- Media Settings
- Using media library
- Maintain images
- Types of image blocks
- Featured images
- Adding audio and video to content
Customize Your Site
- Introduction to Full Site Editing
- Select a theme
- Set the blog page and front page
- Create custom menus
- Explore the customizer
- Site identity and settings
- Colors and backgrounds
- Content options
- Using blocks in widget areas
- Use a static front page
- Working with Global Styles
Manage Feedback and Forms
- Creating forms and getting responses
- Using Crowdsignal
Manage Users
- Understand user roles
- Add and manage users
Manage Reader Interactions
- Use your site stats
- Receiving notifications and responding to comments
Go Further with WordPress
- Get support for your site
- Monetize your site
- Importing and exporting content
- Use the Reader
- Manage multiple WordPress sites
Conclusion
- Continue the WordPress.com journey