Free online courseWordpress for beginners

Course Description

Want to launch a professional website without getting lost in technical jargon? This beginner-friendly course guides you from the first steps of understanding what WordPress is to confidently managing a real site. You will learn how WordPress fits into modern web development, when to choose WordPress.com versus WordPress.org, and how hosting decisions impact performance, cost, and control.

Starting from the foundation, you will go through the practical workflow of getting a site online: registering a domain, selecting an economical hosting option for beginners, configuring DNS correctly, and installing WordPress using common methods such as cPanel. Along the way, you will understand the purpose of key folders like Public HTML and the essential tools needed to upload files and complete setup without stress.

Once WordPress is running, the focus shifts to daily site management inside the dashboard. You will learn the difference between posts and pages, how to create and edit content efficiently, and how the editor tools help you keep formatting clean while building polished layouts. You will also work with publishing options, revisions for safe changes, and media management so your images, audio, and video look great and load reliably.

The course then helps you shape the look, navigation, and functionality of your site. You will customize menus, rearrange widgets, choose and switch themes, and understand what makes a theme control the visual identity of a website. You will also learn how plugins extend features and how to manage them safely, including the correct way to handle active plugins before removing them.

To round things out, you will configure settings that affect user experience and visibility, including permalink structures that are widely recommended for SEO, homepage display options, and comment/user management practices that keep your site organized and more resistant to spam. With the included questions and exercises, you will reinforce each step and finish prepared to build, publish, and maintain a WordPress website with confidence.