Course Highlights
  • Create all kinds of commercial websites, using WordPress, to sell to clients
  • Master the inner workings of WordPress, for fixing, troubleshooting, and building websites
  • Set up server and hosting environments in the most economical and secure way
  • Build and edit websites within staging and development environments
  • Migrate and transfer WordPress websites from staging to live and vice-versa
  • Master the three types of email needed to support a WordPress website
  • Sell Website Care and Maintenance plans to happy clients for recurring revenue
Curriculum

6 Topics
Important: Note about the course
What You Need for this Course
What You'll Learn in this Course
WordPress Tour and Different Versions
Tools - Domains FTP Image Editing Invoices and Taking Payments
Resource List for your Toolbox

17 Topics
Hosting and Local Development Environments
Website Hosting and Development Options
Local Development Environments
MAMP Overview
Laragon Overview with the Hosts File
Your First WordPress Website - using Local by Flywheel
Local by Flywheel - Files and Database Structure
New Interface for SiteGround Student Accounts
Your Free SiteGround Hosting Account
Your Free Flywheel Hosting Account
Install WordPress Manually using Local by Flywheel
Install WordPress Manually using MAMP
Install WordPress Manually using Laragon
Explore WordPress Files and Database
Student Sandbox Code
Get Your Sandbox
WordPress Defaults

9 Topics
Create a New WordPress Installation
Salts and Plugins
Static Homepage and Posts
Interior Pages Navigation and Sidebar
Configure Contact Form
New rules for Google Maps - Get your API Key
Configure Google Maps
Google Analytics Plugin Changes
Configure Google Analytics

6 Topics
Modify Homepage and Import Sample
Change Theme and Modify Homepage
Revise Navigation Header and Footer
Categories and Category Navigation
Tags and Tag Navigation
Post Formats and Finishing Up

7 Topics
Site Migration using a Plugin: All In One WP Migration
Site Migration using a Plugin: Duplicator
Migrate a Site Manually from Local to SiteGround Hosting
Migrate a Live Site to Local Staging
Migrating to Live Host and Staging Areas
How to get the Affinity Theme that we use in the next lesson
Change Theme and Update Live Site

10 Topics
Why Premium Themes?
Frameworks and Child Themes
Create a Child Theme Manually - notes
Create a Child Theme Manually
Create a Child Theme Using a Plugin
Change the Admin Dashboard
Genesis Child Themes in the Sandbox
Changes to the Footer Edits in the Following Video
More Genesis Child Theme Edits
Code Snippets and WP Clips Plugins

5 Topics
Premium Plugins at WPMUDev.org
Envato Market for Premium Plugins
Choosing Plugins from the Repository
Premium vs. Lite Plugin: Soliloquy Slider
Premium Plugins in the Sandbox

10 Topics
Executive Pro Theme Update
Executive Pro: Import Demo Content
Genesis Homepage Widget Areas
Special CSS Classes in Genesis Themes
Changes to the Genesis Footer Editing Process
Navigation Header and Footer
Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
Changes to setting the Blog Archive Page in the next lesson
Featured Post Widgets and Blog Archive
Contact Form Customization Changes

8 Topics
Activate and Explore Cafe Pro Theme
Scrolling Navigation with Anchor Tags
Affinity Theme Scrolling Homepage
Cafe Pro Homepage Widget Layouts
How I customized the Café Pro Homepage
Custom Post Types with Custompress
Implement Your Custom Post Types
Homepage Content and Conditional Widgets

6 Topics
Set Up Author Pro Theme and Plugin
Frontend Display of Author Pro CPT
Author Pro Homepage and Book Widgets
Further Author Pro Customizations
Book Cover using the PSD Template
Change Themes Preserving CPT Data

12 Topics
Two Types of Internal Email: Transactional and Marketing
Email Addresses at Private Domains
Transactional Email Setup with Google
Changes to Recommended plugin for SendGrid
Transactional Email Setup with SendGrid
Transactional Email Setup with SparkPost
Mailchimp Marketing and Autoresponders
Mailchimp Signup Forms and Opt-in System
Changes to MailChimp Default Opt-in System
Mailchimp Emails and Thank You Pages
Sandbox form with Genesis Enews Extended
Mailchimp and WordPress User Synchronization

8 Topics
WooCommerce Plugin Settings
Custom Post Types in WooCommerce
Account Cart and Checkout Pages
Payment Systems and Inventory
Shipping and Digital Delivery
Changes to WooCommerce Checkout Fields Editing for the next lesson
Free Product and Store Customizations
Marketing List Sync and Store Emails

9 Topics
WordPress Core Updates
Plugin and Theme Updates
Managing Multiple Websites
Changes to Login and Authentication Plugins
Hosting and Third Party Security Services
Security Plugins and Monitoring
Multiple Backups and Restore Systems
Changes to most hosts for setting up SSL and https:// - for the next lesson
Using https:// and SSL Certificates

3 Topics
Website Proposals that Win Clients
Link to resources mentioned in the next lesson
Website Care Plans & Recurring Income

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