Master WordPress using our proven step-by-step visual approach (over 330 screenshots). This book is a major new release for 2021, covering the latest version of WordPress. If major changes do occur to WordPress during 2021, you can visit our updates web page for details, so you can always be up to date. Building a beautiful, professional-looking WordPress website (or a blog) is no longer the computer geeks' domain. WordPress makes it possible for anyone to create and run a website that looks great on any device - PC, Mac, tablet, and phone. Whether you want to build a business site, an affiliate site, a hobby site, or a blog, WordPress is a great choice, and this book shows you how. The primary goal of this book is to take anyone, even an absolute beginner, from zero to WordPress "guru" in a few short hours. Inside this book, veteran WordPress expert Andy Williams will start at the very beginning. You'll learn essential topics like:
- The two different versions of WordPress.
- How to set up web hosting and domain registrar the correct way.
- Installing WordPress.
- A Dashboard overview.
- Cleaning out the stuff that is installed by default.
- Finding and installing WordPress themes to change the look and feel of your website instantly.
- Plugins. What they are and how they can add fabulous features to your site.
- How to update WordPress, themes, and plugins.
- Understand every single setting. You can use our suggested defaults.
- How to find and use the RSS feeds to help search engines find your content.
- Importance of user-profiles and assigning an image (Gravatar) to your email address.
- Creating great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking, and related posts.
- Enabling and dealing with visitor comments.
- Using the media library for images, video, and more.
- The difference between pages and posts, and when to use each one.
- Effective use of categories and tags. Misusing these can get your site penalized or even banned from search engines.
- How to create content using both the Classic editor and the new Gutenberg editor.
- Publish or schedule posts for a future date.
- Post revisions.
- Two different types of homepage. A blog-style page v a more traditional "static" homepage.
- Using widgets on your site to add neat features.
- Types of sites you can build with WordPress (blog, business, typical site), with videos on sett
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