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WordPress & Elementor Mastery 2023 – Learn To Build Websites

Learn to build beautiful websites using WordPress & Elementor and how to drive free traffic using SEO & email marketing
Instructor:
Ricky Wallace
958 students enrolled
English [Auto]
Learn how to build beautiful, responsive WordPress websites and blogs using Elementor Page Builder
Discover how to build your WordPress site 'locally' on your computer without having to buy a domain name or hosting,
Learn how to migrate your 'local' website on your computer and push it 'live' onto your actual domain name with hosting
Understand what a domain name is, how to buy one and how to use it for your next WordPress website
Grasp all of the details of WordPress posts, pages and tags and understand the relationships with categories and parent/child pages
Quickly develop beautiful websites, blogs and landing pages using Elementor Page Builder and the hundreds of pre-made website templates
Learn all about domain hosting, from the budget-friendly to the lightening fast web servers to catapult your search engine rankings
Introduction to search engine optmisations, including on-page and off-page optimisations to maximise your organic search traffic to your website
Create effective custom menu's that allow your visitors and search engines to navigate your website and quickly find what they are searching for
Understand what WordPress plugins and themes are, and how to install them for extra website functionality
Protect your website from hackers and spammers and prevent brute-force attacks using Wordfence
Create a professional, static homepage that will keep visitors returning time and time again
Learn how you can quickly 'rinse and repeat' your WordPress site and Elementor theme templates so you can quickly build more websites and blogs
Build websites and blogs that are optimised for speed that visitors and search engines are going to love you for

Ever had a business idea that you had to let slide because you didn’t know how to build a website? Or maybe have been quoted thousands of dollars for someone else to build one for you? That all changes after this course.

Learn how to build responsive, modern and beautiful WordPress websites in less than 21 hours. After completion, you will be able to confidently transform any business or blog ideas into life overnight with the power of WordPress and the industry-leading visual page builder – Elementor.

Discover how you can apply templates to websites to build something new in a matter of hours. Not weeks, or even days, but hours. Build beautiful, modern websites for yourself,  or master your craft and start charging new clients for your new in-demand skill set.

Doors open and opportunities reveal themselves once you can proficiently design and build a website – a website just like we will build in this WordPress & Elementor Master Course. You will also master the basics of WordPress SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and how you can drive traffic to your website completely for free.

Ready to invoke some change and take a giant leap in your career, professional and personal life? I’ll see you inside!

Introduction

1
What you will learn from this course
2
Who is this course for?
3
Meet the website you are going to build

WordPress - Powering The Internet

1
What is WordPress and why we are using it
2
Wordpress.com or Wordpress.org?

Understanding The Basics

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All you need to know about section 3
2
Web hosting 101
3
Understanding what a domain name is
4
Understanding the techy jargon (cheatsheet download)
5
Show me what you know!

How well do you know the basics?

Setting Up Wordpress Locally Without Hosting

1
All you need to know about section 4
2
What is Local WP?
3
Installing & configuring Local WP
4
Creating your first WordPress site locally
5
Show me what you know!

How well do you understand Local WP and how to use it?

WordPress - Getting under the hood

1
All you need to know about section 5
2
Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard
3
Configuring our WordPress settings
4
Introduction to the block editor - creating our first post
5
Adding a few more posts using the classic editor
6
Installing and customising themes

Building Our Website Using Elementor

1
All you need to know about section 6
2
What is Elementor?
3
Understanding the WordPress template files
4
Download and install Elementor Pro onto our website
5
Introduction to the Elementor settings
6
Elementor settings continued
7
Creating our main menu
8
Creating our footer menu
9
30-day free trial for Canva
10
How to make your own logo
11
Adding a logo to our website
12
Design & build the header
13
Design & build the header...continued
14
Design & build the footer
15
Designing the homepage (banner)
16
Designing the home page (counters section)
17
Designing the home page (polaroids section)
18
Complete this only if you have problems with global styles in next Lesson
19
Adding global fonts and colours
20
Tweaking the design elements of our homepage
21
Designing the homepage (posts section)
22
Designing the homepage (parallax section)
23
Designing the homepage (inspiration section)
24
Designing the homepage ("featured in" section)
25
Adding a few more blog posts
26
Building the archive (blog) page template
27
Read this before the next lesson

In the next lesson, we are going to be designing and building our single post template.

If your homepage appears broken after completing the next lesson, then skip ahead to the lesson afterwards where I will show you a fix for this :)

Good luck!

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Building the single post page template
29
Amending the display conditions
30
Final few details to our design
31
Adding an About Us page
32
Designing the Contact page
33
Adding to our Travel Tips page
34
Archive page templates on steroids
35
Archive page templates continued
36
Adding a resources page
37
Designing the single page template
38
Designing the error 404 and search results template files
39
The art of responsive web design (homepage)
40
Creating a responsive header and footer
41
Adding responsiveness to the contact page, about and resources
42
Adding responsive design to the archive templates
43
Adding responsive design to the final templates
44
Learn how to monetise your blog
45
Show me what you know!

How well do you understand Elementor and how to use it?

Domain Name & Hosting

1
All you need to know about section 7
2
Set up a web hosting account with Hostinger
3
Purchasing a domain name with Namecheap
4
Changing our nameservers of our new domain
5
Claiming your free domain with Hostinger Premium
6
Getting familiar with the Hostinger dashboard

Migrating Your Local Website To Your Web Hosting Account

1
All you need to know about section 8
2
Install Duplicator and create our migration package
3
Migrate website to our server for the whole world to see!
4
Show me what you know!

How much do you really know about migrating websites to your web server?

Additional Plugins and Configurations

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All you need to know about section 9
2
Install and configure W3 Total Cache
3
Measure your page loading times
4
Install and configure Wordfence Security
5
Install and configure Updraft Plus
6
Updating our plugins and themes
7
Taking your Wordpress & Elementor skills further

Driving Free Traffic To Our Website using SEO

1
All you need to know about section 10
2
What is SEO?
3
The SEO work flow
4
What are keywords?
5
Keeping track of your keywords
6
Determining your on-page SEO strategy for your website
7
Creating a Google Ads account for the free keyword tools
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