WordPress-Beginners-2019-Step-Step-ebook

WordPress For Beginners.  Master WordPress using our step-by-step visual approach (over 330 screenshots). This book is a major new release for 2019, covering the latest version of WordPress.

Building a beautiful, professional looking WordPress website (or a blog), is no longer the domain of computer geeks. WordPress makes it possible for anyone to create and run a website that looks great on any device – PC, Mac, tablet and phone. Whether you want to build a business site, an affiliate site, a hobby site or a blog, WordPress is a great choice.

The primary goal of this book is to take anyone, even an absolute beginner, from zero to WordPress “guru” in a few short hours.

Inside this book, veteran WordPress expert Andy Williams will start at the very beginning. You’ll learn important topics like:

• The two different versions of WordPress.
• Website hosting and domain registrars. How to set this up with separate registrar and host, for more security.
• How to install WordPress.
• An overview of the Dashboard including how to find hidden items.
• Cleaning out the stuff that is installed by default.
• Finding and installing WordPress themes to instantly change the look and feel of your website.
• Plugins. What they are and how you can use them to create magnificent websites.
• How to update WordPress, themes and plugins.
• Every single Dashboard setting, what they do, and what you should use in the settings of your website.
• How to find and use the RSS feeds on your site to help search engines find your content.
• The importance of user profiles, and how to assign a “Gravatar” image to your email address.
• How to create great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking and related post sections.
• Enabling and dealing with visitor comments.
• Using the media library for images, video and more.
• The difference between pages and posts, and a simple way to know which one you should be using for each bit of content you publish on your website.
• Effective use of categories and tags. Using these incorrectly can get your site penalised or even banned from search engines.
• How to create content using both the Classic editor and the new Gutenberg editor.
• How to publish posts, and even schedule them so they will be published at some future date.
• Using post revisions.
• Two different types of homepage. A blog style page v a more traditional “static” homepage.
• Using widgets on your site to add neat features.

We’ll also cover those vital plugins every site need, including:

• Automatically take backups and get them sent to the cloud.
• Automatically create important legal pages on your site, like terms and privacy policy.
• Creating a contact page so visitors can contact you.
• Add a related posts section to the end of every post to keep visitors on site longer.
• Setup good SEO practices.
• Setup social sharing buttons on your site, so visitors can easily tell their friends about your great web pages.

Most people learn better when they can actually see what they are reading about, so one thing this book isn’t, is shy about screenshots. There are over 330 of them, showing you exactly what you will see on your screen, and prompting you to take specific actions as you learn and master WordPress. You may have heard that WordPress has a steep learning curve. With this book, you won’t even notice it. Each chapter ends with a “Tasks to Complete” section. By completing these tasks, you’ll not only become proficient with WordPress, you’ll become confident at using WordPress. By the end of the book, you’ll be building great looking, professional WordPress websites that look fantastic on any device… And you’ll enjoy doing it!

Oliver ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars Great for newbies to WordPress
26 May 2019
Format: eBook Verified Purchase

I highly recommend this book, particularly for beginners.

I needed to refresh a WordPress website that I first put up 2 years ago and so I looked for a book that would remind me of what I’d previously learned and one that also covered the new WordPress Gutenberg editor.

This definitely will take someone from being a complete novice and quickly help them get to grips with design and publishing a site in fairly short order. It is intended to be used as a workbook from start to finish. I’m not a complete novice, and so chose to dip in and out of sections in my first reading. The second time I went cover to cover.

Unfortunately, what I was looking to do was out of the scope of the book. However, I emailed the author to ask if any other of his materials covered what I needed to do. Whilst they didn’t, he very kindly made a suggestion that led me to the correct solution. I will definitely be getting other books from books-for-everyone.com in the future.

WordPress for beginners 2019 arrived very quickly from Books-For-Everyone.com. It is well written and well illustrated. I would say the intended audience, beginners to WordPress would find it hard to get a better book. Even having had some experience of putting up a WordPress site, I was able to use techniques from the book immediately. I am sure you will too.

  John ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars Outstanding
14 May 2019
Format: Digital Edition Verified Purchase

I had to create a website for uni. I am not IT friendly at all and was pulling my hair out, that is until I bought this book. It is written in a really easy to follow way as if the author, April Madden & Steve Dacombe, is sitting next to you going through each step logically and at your pace with screen shots along the whole process. There is none of this giving directions with no pictures so that by the time you have found the button, you forgot what you were trying to do anyway. He writes in a chatty way as though he’s conversing with you. I sat at my computer for two days reading and creating this website and enjoyed it so much. That’s all thanks to this book. It doesn’t matter if you have no knowledge about creating websites this book will make you feel confident to explore the website areas and create pages and posts, upload data, create links etc. April Madden & Steve Dacombe really does know how to impart knowledge to his students without blinding them with science! I have yet to find a bad review about this book.

  Garry Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hit the ground running
17 February 2019
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

If you’ve ever had a blog in the past, WordPress will be familiar to you, and you’ll want a book that gives you the essentials to get you started as quickly as possible. On the other hand, if you’re about to build your first blog, you’ll want exactly the same kind of book: something that’s quick and simple to understand. And if you’re not using WordPress to build a blog but to actually put together a full-scale web site, a book that gives you the quickest way of putting that site together is precisely what you need.

And not only does this book give you all of that, the author also has an inexpensive video course on Udemy. So you’re covered, whatever your preferred method of learning. Having used Blogger before, I was able to get a blog up and running in a few hours, and then I used the videos and the book to help me understand the differences between Blogger and WordPress and also to flesh my site out over the next few days.

WordPress is software, and software is a movable feast – it’s updated regularly enough that any book is going to contain some details that are different from what you’re seeing on-screen. And some of the details in this book were a little different, but not enough to slow me down. There’s so much online help and advice on WordPress that you can quickly find answers to anything you’re not sure of.

I have no hesitation in recommending this book as it is so simply written, with plenty of visual detail, that you should not only hit the ground running, but also create a site that works well. This is worth more than the price of the book. You can pay more and get a more comprehensive book after you’re up and running, at the point where you’re ready to learn more.