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Your First Week With WordPress

Your First Week With WordPress

Get up to speed with the world's most popular CMS


Course details

4.3∙6 Ratings3 reviews

Published
November 2018
Publisher
SitePoint
Chapters
10

About the course

WordPress is by far the most popular CMS in the world, packed with features and functionality. What's more, it's extremely flexible, and has a very active community of people developing plugins, themes, tools and more. In this book, we'll cover the basics and to get you up to speed with using WordPress. It contains:

  • The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up & Running a WordPress Site by Craig Buckler
  • A Simple Guide to WordPress Starter Themes by John Hughes
  • Three Ways to Create Your Own WordPress Theme by Sufyan bin Uzayr
  • Understanding WordPress Pages and the Pages API by Jérémy Heleine
  • How to Easily Back Up WordPress Remotely: A Step-by-step Guide by Nick Schäferhoff
  • 10 Steps for Optimizing WordPress Site Performance by Adrian Try
  • Top 10 Tips to Fix Most Common WordPress Security Issues by Mark Wilson
  • The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO by Aaron Gray
  • A Guide to Caching in WordPress by Shaumik Daityari
  • Lazy Loading for WordPress: How to Add It to Your Website by Nick Schäferhoff

This book is suitable for anyone with a little HTML and CSS experience (except for a short section of Chapter 4; it discusses the Pages API, which requires basic PHP).

Course Outline

Chapter 1: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up & Running a WordPress Site
Chapter 2: A Simple Guide to WordPress Starter Themes
Chapter 3: Three Ways to Create Your Own WordPress Theme
Chapter 4: Understanding WordPress Pages and the Pages API
Chapter 5: How to Easily Back Up WordPress Remotely: A Step-by-step Guide
Chapter 6: 10 Steps for Optimizing WordPress Site Performance
Chapter 7: Top 10 Tips to Fix Most Common WordPress Security Issues
Chapter 8: The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO
Chapter 9: A Guide to Caching in WordPress
Chapter 10: Lazy Loading for WordPress: How to Add It to Your Website

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Course details

4.3∙6 Ratings3 reviews

Published
November 2018
Publisher
SitePoint
Chapters
10

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