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What is Wordpress?

It is an online, open source website creation

tool written in PHP.

But in non-geek speak, it's probably the easiest and most powerful blogging...

…and website content management system (or

CMS) in existence today.

Log in to your hosted WordPress account

Here’s a tip:

Just put this at the end of

your domain

/wp-admin

To be able to access your

WordPress admin page easily

i.e. www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Welcome to your WordPress Admin Page

How to install a theme

What is a WordPress Theme?

A WordPress theme changes

the design of your website,

often including its layout.

Changing your theme

changes how your site looks on the front-end.

i.e. what a visitor sees when

they browse to your site on the web.

Click Appearance

Click Themes

Click Add New

Theme Selection Page

Things might start to get confusing here…

…because there are hundreds (thousands even)

of Themes to choose from

A rule of thumb when

choosing a Theme is…

…that it should be responsive (desktop view,

tablet view & mobile view)

Let’s install the Radium Theme

Type Radium in the search field

Hover your mouse pointer over the Radium Theme

You can either select Preview or Install

Click Install

The Radium Theme is now installing

Click Activate

The theme is now activated. Click Visit Site.

This is what the Radium Theme looks like

You can also upload a

Theme

Click Add New

Click Upload Theme

Click Choose File and select

your Theme

I selected Rise (Thrive Themes). Click Install Now

The theme is now uploading

Click Activate once the

upload completes

Click Visit Site after the

Theme has been activated.

This is what the Rise theme

looks like

We have now installed a theme in your Wordpress.

How to Install Plugins

What are Plugins?

Plugins are ways to extend and add to

the functionality that already exists in

WordPress.

The core of WordPress is designed to

be lean and lightweight, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat.

Plugins then offer custom functions and

features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs.

Click Plugins

Click Add New

You will be directed to the Add Plugins Page

Let’s add the Yoast SEO plugin by typing it in the

Search Field

Click Install

Click Activate

Plugin is now activated

Yoast SEO plugin page

I would highly recommend that you install the following

plugins in your WordPress,

especially if you have an Online Business

1. Better Analytics

2. Yoast SEO

3. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP

4. Sumome

5. Thrive Themes Plugins

6. WP Add Custom CSS

7. WP Smush

8. Any Back-up Plugin

9. Email Marketing by Drip

10. Facebook Conversion Pixel 11. Scarcity Samurai

How to Add Pages

But before we go any further, I would just like to point out the difference between a

Page and a Post

This is where new users

quite often gets confused – because I got confused to.

Post vs Page

Posts

Posts are entries listed in reverse chronological order

on the site homepage or on the posts page if you have

set one in Reading Settings. If you have created

any sticky posts, those will appear before the other

posts.

Posts can be found in the Archives, Categories,

Recent Posts, and other widgets. Posts are also

displayed in the RSS feed of the site. You can control

how many posts are displayed at a time in

the Reading Settings.

Pages

Pages are static and are not listed by date. Pages do

not use tags or categories. An About page is the

classic example. Pages can be displayed in the

sidebar using the Pages widget, and some themes

display pages in the navigation at the top of the site.

Click Pages

Click Add New

You will be directed to the Add New Page

Type the Title of your page in

the Enter title here Field

Add your content here

Click Save Draft if you

haven’t finished with your

page

Otherwise, Click Publish

Click Edit to change the link

of your page

Click View Page

Click View Page

How to Edit your page

Click Pages

Click All Pages

You will be directed to the Pages screen

Select the Page that you want to Edit

Hover the mouse pointer on the Page and click Edit

You will be directed to the About me page

Click Update once your done

editing the page

How to add a Post

Here’s a quick recap on what is a Post?

Posts

Posts are entries listed in reverse chronological order

on the site homepage or on the posts page if you have

set one in Reading Settings. If you have created

any sticky posts, those will appear before the other

posts.

Posts can be found in the Archives, Categories,

Recent Posts, and other widgets. Posts are also

displayed in the RSS feed of the site. You can control

how many posts are displayed at a time in

the Reading Settings.

Click Post

Click Add New

You will be directed to the Add Post page

The process of creating a Post and a Page is similar.

Just follow slides 120 to 130

How to add Pages/ Posts in a Menu

What is a Menu?

A Primary Menu is the main menu selected

as primary menu in the WordPress Menu

Editor. A WordPress theme may support single

or multiple navigational menus at different

locations in theme.

Navigation menus allow theme designers to

let users create custom menus of their own.

The default menu will just list current

WordPress Pages. WordPress supports

multiple menus so a theme can have support

for more than one navigational menu (e.g.

header and footer menus).

Click Appearance

Click Menus

Click Create a New Menu

Type the Name of the Menu

Click Create Menu

Tick the Pages you want to add in your Menu

Click Add to Menu

The pages will appear in the Menu Structure

Tick the Posts you want to add in your Menu

Click Add to Menu

The Posts also appears in the Menu Structure

Drag the Posts under chosen Page

Click Save Menu

Click Manage Locations

Select CND Menu under

Primary Menu

Click Save Changes

Menu Locations are now

updated

Click Visit Site to view

changes

The Menus are now visible

How to Set-up a Static Homepage

Click Settings

Click Reading

Click A Static Page

Select your Front Page

Click Save Changes

Click Visit Site

The About Me page is now

the Static Page

In this WordPress Tutorial, we have covered

the following:

1. How to Select a Theme

2. How to Install Plugins

3. How to Create a Page

4. How to Create a Post

5. How to Create a Menu

6. How to add Pages/ Posts in a Menu

7. How to set-up a Static Homepage

Thank you!

“I see the future of WordPress as a web OPERATING SYSTEM”

- Matt Mullenweg -