1-Hour WordPress 2021: A visual step-by-step guide to building WordPress websites in one hour or less!

Length: 191 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publication Date: 2021-01-11
ISBN-10: B08SR7VZ92
Sales Rank: #108702 (See Top 100 Books)

1-Hour WordPress 2021 is a book that has a simple goal. Take anyone, even a complete beginner, and teach them how to build a fully functional WordPress website in an hour or less.

This book teaches on a strictly need-to-know basis, so you won’t get bogged down in the technical aspects of WordPress. With around 240 screenshots, you also won’t be wondering what the heck I am talking about. It’s like watching over-my-shoulder. Just watch what I do, and follow along as you build your own website.

This book covers all of the important basics like:
1. Setting up with a domain registrar and host, and installing WordPress.
2. Logging into your WordPress dashboard and finding your way around.
3. Exploring the demo content that WordPress installs, including the post, page and comment.
4. Planning your website before you start working in WordPress.
5. Working your way through the important settings, and getting the site set up for success.
6. Posts v Pages are one of the most confusing aspects of WordPress for many beginners, but we cover those in depth, and you’ll learn when to use a post and when to use a page.
7. Using the old WYSIWYG editor AND the Gutenberg editor to add content, and how to use categories and tags to classify and group your content. This is important as it will make your site intuitive for visitors, and the search engines.
8. Adding navigation to help your visitors.
9. Creating custom menus and adding them to your site.
10. Using widgets to add new features to your web pages.
11. WordPress defaults to a blog style homepage, but I’ll show you how to set up a more traditional static homepage where you control 100% of the content.
12. Using plugins to extend the functionality of WordPress. We’ll look at a number of essential plugins that I use on most of my own websites.
13. Keeping WordPress and plugins up to date.
14. Customizing the look and feel of the site with WordPress themes.
15. How you can make money with your website by adding affiliate programs and/or Google Adsense.
16. Three website models: Business, Blog, and Niche site, with instructions and videos showing how to implement them in WordPress.

This book contains a link to an updates page, so that when things change, I can keep you informed, plus a few video tutorials. There is even free access to my blogging course for readers in 2021.

In short, this book is a complete beginners guide to WordPress. Follow as you go through the book, and you can have your very own, professional looking website, in an hour or less.

Introduction
Updates & Changes to WordPress?
A Note About UK v US English
Found Typos in This Book?
What is WordPress?
Some of the Features That Make WordPress Great
Domains, Registrars & Hosting
Two types of domain name
TLDs
How much is it all going to cost?
What is a Domain Registrar?
What is a Web host?
All-in-one registrar and web host?
Domain, Host, Registrar & Installing WordPress
Login and Logout of your WordPress Dashboard
Looking at the demo page, post, and comment
A note on the homepage
Deleting the Demo Post & Comment
Deleting Demo Page
Deleting Widgets
A Note About Sidebars
Deleting Plugins
Getting the House in Order
WordPress Settings
Checkpoint #1 – Author Profile
Checkpoint #2 – Update Services
Checkpoint #3 – Reading Settings
Checkpoint #4 – Discussion Settings
Checkpoint #5 – Permalinks
Checkpoint #6 - Gravatars
Checkpoint #8 – Adding a Sitemap
Planning the site
Pages v Posts
Post Categories
Post Tags
Post Excerpts
Posts and RSS Feeds
When to Use Posts and When to Use Pages
A Blog?
A Business Site?
A Typical Niche Site?
Writing Posts
Choosing the Classic Editor or Gutenberg
The “Classic” WYSIWYG Editor
Adding Images
Post Formats
Post Category
Post Tags
Post Excerpt
Publishing the Post
The Gutenberg Editor
Using the Forward Slash to Add Blocks
Paragraph Block Properties
Reusable Blocks
Moving a Block in Gutenberg
Inserting Blocks in Between Existing Blocks
Delete a Block
Available “Building” Blocks
The Table Block
The Buttons Block
The Columns Block
Yoast SEO Settings for the Post
The SEO Tab
The Schema Tab
The Social Tab
Post (Document) Properties
The Process for Publishing a Post
Publishing & Scheduling Posts in Gutenberg
Using the HTML Editor to Edit Your Post
Editing Posts
Revisions
Why Use Revisions?
Creating Pages – About, contact & terms
Contact Form
About Us Page
Privacy Policy
Terms & Disclaimer
Top Navigation Menu
A Note About Menu Locations
Creating Categories
Setting up the Categories
Creating Posts Workflow
1.      Create a new, blank post.
2.      Enter a title
3.      Type in the post content
4.      Select a category
5.      Do you need tags?
6.      Add an Excerpt
7.      Featured Images
8.      Publish the post
What to do next?
Widgets
The Homepage - A special case
Allowing Comments
Akismet Anti-Spam
Moderating Comments
Social Sharing?
Other Social Share Plugins
Website Navigation
Related Posts
Keeping WordPress Updated & Secure
Backing up the Site
UpdraftPlus
Changing the Look & Feel of the site
Where to get free themes
Customizing a theme
Additional CSS
Building the 3 Site Models
A Business Site
The Posts Page
Steps to Create this Business Site
A Blog
Steps to Create this Blog Site
A Niche Website (Typical Site)
Steps to Create this Niche Site
Beginner’s Mistakes
Post & Page Titles
Tags & Category Names
Using Tags
Search Engine Visibility
Spam Comments
Plugins for all occasions
All-In-One Security & Firewall
Pretty Link Lite
CI Backlinks
Dynamic Widgets
W3 Total Cache
Wishlist Member
wpForo Forum
Making Money with your website
Affiliate programs
Google Adsense
Where to Go from Here?
YouTube Channel
O.M.G. Facebook Group
My Site / Newsletter
Useful Resources
WordPress Tutorials on my Website
My Other Webmaster Books
My Video Courses
Google Webmaster Guidelines
Google Analytics