Courses to help you build your own WordPress website

In order to help you build your website, we have segmented the articles that we have written in modules/courses that will allow you to progressively implement your blog, website or ecommerce. For each article, you just have to click on the description  in order to be redirected to the specific article

Course 1: Introduction

Today there are a multitude of websites and e-commerce store builders that each have their own advantages, specialties but also disadvantages.

When you want to start your own wordpress website, be it for ecommerce, an online blog, news magazine, you can quite easily build one yourself at low-cost.

On the market you have access to a lot of content management systems (CMS) that allow you to create your website and manage your content such as WordPress.

Course 2

Localhost and web host: When you start building your website all your content, pages and structure of the website need to be stored somewhere.

Buying a domain name is one of the most official steps to take in order to start your business online and there are several elements included in the price.

WordPress interface for beginners: In this article, we will go through the différents components of a WordPress interface and their functions. 

The difference between themes and templates in WordPress and the importance of both elements when you start building your own website.

The WordPress theme is the cornerstone of your wordpress website. It allows you to have an idea on how you could configure the website. However, do not confuse it with a wordpress template, they are two different things. In this article, we will focus on how you can select and upload/activate your wordpress theme.

We do not emphasise enough on the documentation of a theme in the process of building a website. Not all themes provide one. Moreover, the majority of the themes have a demo version that helps you to understand the main features. 

WordPress plugins are essential to a wordpress website because they allow you to add additional features that are not incorporated in your theme. They are really handy since you don’t have to be an expert of coding in order to do it.The only thing you need is knowing which functionality you want to add on your website. I am always amazed by the amount of plugins that exist on wordpress.

Course 3

Since there are a lot of plugins (extensions), the first step is knowing what kind of functionalities you would like to implement on your site.

In order to secure your users  and your website we recommend to activate the certification SSL (https). In addition, it will help you to improve your SEO

In order to transfer your website to a more secure version (https domain) you have to redirect the traffic through the .htaccess file.

A backup plugin should be one of the first extensions that you install in order to be sure that you always have a backup in case there is an issue.

Having a secured website (https) became a concern of most of the ecommerce owners given that it allows to protect personal information of users that are making transactions on the website. However, how can you implement wordpress https?