Project Outline
  • What we will need
  • Is this course for me? WordPress.org vs WordPress.com
  • How to follow this course with the same version of WordPress and Plugin?
Getting a domain name and web host
  • Why seperating our domain from our web host
  • START HERE - Register the domain
  • Signing up to our preferred web host
  • Checking Auto Renew Billing Setting on Your Host
  • Pointing your domain to have your web host's nameservers
5-Minutes Famous WordPress Manual Installation
  • Downloading and uploading WordPress files to your web server
  • Creating the database and its user
  • The installation process
Troubleshooting Domain and Web Host
  • If the domain is not yet fully propagated
  • Beginners Tip - How to access your cPanel
What To Do After Installing WordPress
  • HTTP vs HTTPS example on a website
  • Installing SSL For HTTPS with One-Click Button
  • Testing the HTTPS on our website
  • Coverting your website from HTTP to HTTPS version
  • Improve your site's security with your username
  • Checking our WordPress dashboard for the first time
  • Deleting the default WordPress post example
  • Uncategorized default category
  • Deleting the example page and comment
  • Removing plugins that we don't use
Exploring WordPress Settings
  • The "General" Setting
  • "Writing" and "Reading" Settings
  • Discussion
  • Media Setting
  • Permalinks
  • Optional - Gravatar user picture
Our preferred WordPress Themes
  • Previewing website appearance that we want
  • Deleting the themes we don't use
  • Getting our premium themes
  • Installing our premium themes and needed plugins
Website SEO
  • Distinguishing Theme vs Plugin SEO features
  • Before we begin to install Yoast SEO Plugin
  • Installing the SEO plugin (Newest Version)
  • Installing SEO plugin, same version as this course was recorded (version 6.1.1)
  • Enable "Advanced Settings Pages"
  • Yoast SEO "Dashboard" Settings
  • Yoast "Titles & Metas"
  • Social Settings
  • Yoast XML Sitemap setting for our website
  • "Advanced" and "Tools" Yoast plugin settings
  • Yoast "Search Console" setting
Work with Our Theme - Basic Steps
  • Creating two pages, Home and Blog page
  • Setting up our Front and Blog pages
  • Where to find our theme's documentation?
  • Site identity and Colors settings on Customizer
  • Header media and Background image
  • Creating our top navigation menu
  • Importing our theme's widget settings
SEO-Optimzing "Home" & "Blog" Pages
  • "Home" Front-page optimization
  • "Blog" posts page optimization
Setup our important website pages
  • "About Us" page
  • "Contact Us" page
  • "Privacy Policy" page
  • "Portfolio" pages
  • "Prices" page
Customizing our Home page appearance
  • Header Front Page 1 widget
  • Header button & Front Page 3
  • Front Page 2 widgets with its 3 icons
  • Font Page 4 - Adding the video
  • Front Page 5 - Display portfolio thumbnails
  • Front Page 6 - Testimonials
  • Before Footer Widget
Customize Website's Footer
  • Social Media Links in the Footer
  • Configuring and Displaying Business profile
  • Newsletter - Allow people to receive your updates or news
Finalizing Website's Appearance - Theme's Other Settings
  • Setup Social Links on Header Menu
  • Theme's custom colors
  • Adding a Video on Header - Optional
  • Checking the additional setting that a new plugin can possibly add
  • Using Custom Navigation Menu
  • Sticky Header Menu
  • Custom Feed
  • Custom Footer Text
Recheck Site's SEO Settings
  • Re-checking our site content's SEO settings
  • Sitemap & Search Engine Visibility Setting
External SEO - Submit website to Search Engines
  • Submitting to Bing
  • Submit to Google
  • Submit to Yandex
  • Utilizing Search Console setting inside our dashboard
Additional Final Steps
  • Akismet Anti-Spam Activation