Why Wordpress
WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system). It has an easy to use dashboard to make it a universal platform that can be effectively used by anyone. It provides functionalities that are easy to understand. And it comes with a numerous themes, tools and plugins that aids in making a beautiful website.
Course Outline
- Set up a domain and hosting account
- Install Wordpress
- color schemes, fonts, layouts
- Wordpress Themes
- Creating Posts
- Creating Pages
- Images and photo galleries
- Tags
- Widgets and plugins
- Wordpress SEO
Plugins
- WordPress SEO by Yoast – website SEO
- Akismet – Prevent spam
- Auto Post Thumbnail –automatic featured Image
- Social Media Flying Icons –social bookmarking icons
- Jetpack by WordPress – multi-functional
- No self Pings –stop self-pinging
- ShortPixels –image compression
- WP Super Cache –caching
- Yoast SEO
- Mail Poet Plugin
Traffic
- Facebook
- Quora
- Pininterest
- Twitter
- Other Social Media
Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Analytics
