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Become a WordPress Expert
WordPress Essentials
WordPress Essentials Introduction
WordPress: What & Why
WordPress.org or WordPress.com?
What you will need
Understanding domain, hosting, and name servers
Choosing a Domain Registrar & Hosting Company
Installing WordPress on your domain
Tour of an out-of-the-box WordPress site
Tour of the WordPress dashboard
Creating Pages and Posts
Using the Visual Editor
Working with images
Hyperlinking : How to hyperlink anything in WordPress
Configuring a blog, static site and mixed site
Removing home page title & comments box
Adding a flat navigation bar
Adding a drop-down navigation bar
Installing a free theme
Installing a commercial theme
Modifying your theme settings, adding a header
Working with the Weaver theme
Setting up Post Categories and Blog pages
Using the Latest Posts, Post Categories & Custom Menu widgets
Using the Text widget to post arbitrary Text or Images to your sidebar
Using the Text widget to post a Youtube video
Introduction to plugins: Akismet comment spam protection
Using the RSSImport plugin; plugins that require shortcodes
Installing a commercial plugin
Permalinks
Discussion settings & Comment moderation
Privacy Settings
User Menu
Commercial themes
Graphic sources
WordPress Security
WordPress Theme Selection & Customization
Introduction to WordPress Theme Selection & Customization
How to choose a theme
Inside tour of Associate and Genesis themes
Populating navbar and home page widget areas
Adding a slider to Associate theme
Other StudioPress examples
Outside tour of ElegantThemes Feather theme
Inside tour of Feather theme
Feather theme: Populating home page
Other ElegantThemes examples
WooThemes Fresh News build
Other WooThemes examples
Tour of OptimizePress
OptimizePress: Creating a squeeze page
OptimizePress: Creating a sales page
Thesis 1.8 or 2.0?
Thesis 1.8 installation & quick tour
Thesis: Adding header & navbar
Adding Meteor Slider
Adding center-page 4x2 table
Adding footer widgets in Thesis
Firebug CSS inspector tool; creating CSS overrides
Weaver theme tour
More Weaver theme options
What is a responsive theme?
Images and Graphic Editing
Introduction to graphic editing
Paint.net tutorial: Making a website header
Gimp tutorial: Making a website header
Pixlr tutorial: Making a website header
Camtasia tutorial
Advanced Content Creation
WordPress user menu
Paragraphs vs. line-breaks
Pasting text in from Microsoft Word
Windows Live Writer
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
TinyMCE Advanced Visual Editor: Tables and Anchor links
Embedding a private video
Embedding audio
Download and copy audio and video from other websites
Importing content from WordPress.com or other blogs
Migrating HTML websites to WordPress
Hiding a website under construction
Copying WordPress websites using WP Clone
Local server hosting
HTML Introduction
HTML Cheat sheet: most important HTML tags
HTML Cheat sheet: Image tags
Learn HTML from W3 Schools
CSS Introduction: Learn CSS in 30 min.
Applying CSS styling to your pages: 3 ways
CSS Class and CSS Id
CSS Selectors and nesting
Inline CSS vs. Stylesheet CSS
CSS box model: margin, border, padding
CSS Cheat Sheet: common properties
Using Firebug (HTML & CSS inspection tool)
Modifying your theme’s CSS
Using Firebug to copy a static HTML site to WordPress
WordPress SEO
SEO key concepts: types of traffic, how Google ranks, and more
Quick-and-dirty guide to WordPress SEO
Using WordPress Tags to increase keyword density
Installing Google Analytics on your site
Understanding Google Analytics reports
SEO Case Study: Introduction
SEO Case Study: Google Places
SEO Case Study: Research competitor titles and keywords
SEO Case Study: Keyword research in Market Samurai
SEO Case Study: Optimize Meta Tags with Yoast WordPress SEO plugin
Shopping Carts and Payment Systems
Understanding the flow of money in online payments
Choosing the right payment processor for your business
WordPress shopping cart options overview
Externally-hosted shopping cart solutiions
Introduction to WordPress shopping carts
How to add a PayPal payment button
How to add a Paypal button to your site with a plugin
How to add a payment button using 1ShoppingCart externally-hosted cart
WordPress Membership Plugins Overview
Wishlist Member: Setup page protection & Paypal integration
Wishlist Member: Create paypal subscription button
Wishlist Member: Managing users
Newsletters, Auto-responders, RSS-to-email systems
Introduction to Newsletter Systems & Auto-responders
Mailchimp initial setup & creating forms
Mailchimp: Creating fancy html mails
RSS-to-email systems: Introduction
How to use the free Feedburner service for your newsletter
Feedburner: feeding only a single post category to your newsletter
Online Video Production, Editing and Distribution
Introduction to Online Video Production, Editing and Distribution
Why you should use video on your site
How to record and edit video with your webcam and Windows Movie Maker
How to shoot video with a flipcam or other video camera
How to record a screen capture sequence to video, or else a narrated Powerpoint
Introduction to video editing: best video editing software
Sony Vegas: basic video editing
Sony Vegas: adding titles
Sony Vegas: noise removal with Audacity
Sony Vegas: green-screening
Distributing video: converting to mp4 format
How to distribute Youtube video
How to distribute Video with Amazon Web Services
How to distribute video via RTMP streaming and Cloudfront
How to send a video link in an email
WordPress Social Media Integration
Introduction to WordPress Social Media Integration
How to add Tweet, Facebook Like, Google Like, etc., to your pages or posts
How to add "Follow-me" links to your site
How to create a Facebook fan page
How to add Facebook comments to your pages or posts
How to create an iframe inside a Facebook fan page
WordPress Backup, Performance and Security
WordPress Backup: Concepts
Backup on-site using BackWPUp
Backup off-site with BackWPUp
On-demand backup and restore with WP Clone
On-demand backup and restore with InfiniteWP
Backup + Manual WordPress Install with FTP and PHPMyAdmin
Restore with FTP and PHPMyAdmin
WordPress Security Basics
Scan site with Sucuri and WordFence
Protect site with Better WP Security
Measure your Site's Speed with Pingdom and Yslow
Add page cache with W3 Total Cache
Optimize database with WP Clean Up
Add CloudFlare Proxy Server & CDN
What you will need
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