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Level 0: WordPress Development on a Budget
Perfect for first-timers, this video series guides you through creating websites without breaking the bank.
Discover the power of free resources & plugins to craft professional, functional WordPress sites.
Ideal for the budget-conscious, embark on your web development journey hassle-free!
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Lesson : 1 of 11
Setting Up Wordpress
The essentials, from installing WordPress to navigating its interface. Understand how WordPress and Elementor works and important tips on backing up your website to not lose progress.
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Introducing Wordpress
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Install Classic Editor & Elementor
03
How to Backup and Restore
Lesson : 2 of 11
Setting Up Style Guide
A Style Guide is one of the fundamental aspects of web development. Learn how Elementor's Global Colors and Global Fonts can save you hours in configuring your website down the road when this fundamental step is set-up.
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Why Style Guide
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Global Colors
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Global Fonts
Lesson : 3 of 11
Creating Pages p1: Home Page
Create our first webpage while going through the basics of Elementor Page Builder. Once you understand how to use it, working with Elementor's Page Builder becomes intuitive and second nature.
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Containers & Sections
02
Margin Vs Padding
03
Linking Style Guide
Lesson : 4 of 11
Creating Pages p2: About Us
Continuing on the pervious lesson, let's create an About Us page, and while we are at it, learn more about styling and designing the page in Elementor.
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Styling Containers
02
Resizing Images
03
Setting Up Buttons
Lesson : 5 of 11
Setting Header & Footer
Now that we have two pages, learn how to tell WordPress which is your Home Page and input your menu. Futhurmore, how to design a Header and Footer without the use of Elementor Pro.
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Setting Default Home Page
02
Linking Pages to Menu
03
Header & Footer Plugin
Lesson : 6 of 11
Creating A Blog Area & Posts
Now it's time to go through Blog Posts. Once again, we will be installing a plugin that allows us to circumvent our lack of Elementor Pro. With this free approach however, we are limited in how we can design our Blog Posts. In this lesson, we go through what we can work with within these limits, and how to set up SEO for free.
01
Install Premium Addons for Elementor (Free)
02
Configuring a Blog Widget
03
Limited Designing of Blog Posts
Lesson : 7 of 11
Selling Products & Services
Unlock the power of selling products & services via WooCommerce. Here we will go through the configuration settings of WooCommerce and once again without Elementor Pro, how we can design within the limits of the free Elementor plugin.
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Configuring WooCommerce
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Limited Designing of WooCommerce
03
Remove Breadcrumb via CodeSnippets
Lesson : 8 of 11
Setting Up E-Mail Marketing
Any lead generation is only as good as it's follow-up. Understand the power of e-mail marketing done to its proper potential. Learn how to integrate drip marketing into your website, as well as how to reduce the number of leads exiting your product page.
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Install Hustle
02
Setting Up Drip Marketing
03
Usage Tips on PopUps & SlideIns
Lesson : 9 of 11
Implementing SEO
In this lesson, we learn how to optimize your website for SEO using a free plugin.
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Install SmartCrawl
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Set Meta Description
03
Set keywords
Lesson : 10 of 11
Setting Up Google Analytics
The most important aspect of your website arguably should be analytics. If you know how many visitors your site is getting, which pages are popular and which has high drop-off rates, you will be able to tweak your website and make it better. Learn how to integrate Google Analytics into your WordPress site to get basic analytics at your dashboard.
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Install BeeHive
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Intergrating Google Analytics
03
Removing Yourself from Analytics
Lesson : 11 of 11
Mobile View & Site Speed Up
Your site is done, almost. Elementor tries its best to make your website responsive in both desktop and mobile view, but it really can't do miracles. Here in the final lesson of this course, we be going through how to make specific content for mobile view and some important website speed up tweaks we need to implement.
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Specific Content for Mobile
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Image Compression via Smush
03
Caching via Hummingbird