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Getting Started With Wordpress - A Beginners Guide (Udemy.com)

Learn to use and manage your Wordpress Website with this in-depth course from Website Designer Jerad Hill.

Created by: Jerad Hill

Last updated April 2021

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What you will learn

  • Understand Wordpress
  • How to add and manage content on your website
  • How to upload photos and video content to your website
  • How to customize Wordpress features to fit your needs

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

    WordPress is a website platform often used for blogs but now powers websites for companies and organizations. WordPress is a simple platform and is easy to use but knowing what options to use when can often lead to confusion. 

    I am a website designer with over 13 years of experience. I have been designing websites with WordPress for over 5 years. In 2013, I deployed over 62 customized WordPress websites for Small Businesses and Organizations in my area. With each deployment, came the training. I provided recorded tutorials for each of my clients so they could have something to reference. That is where this course comes into play. 

    I want you to completely understand how to use your WordPress Website so you can get the most out of it. You either spent a lot of time setting up your website or paid somebody else to do it, so it needs to provide you value. In this course, I will walk through WordPress section by section describing how and when to use each feature. 

    By the end of this course, you will know everything that WordPress is capable of doing on its own. I want your website to be a successful website and that starts with understanding how to use it. 

    This course is for anybody who has either just setup Wordpress or was just handed login access to a website they had designed by a website designer. If you have had your Wordpress Website for a while and never got the hang of using it, this course will refresh and renew your desire to create good content and share your story with the world. 

    Sign up today. You can use the Udemy.Com app to view the content on your smart phone or tablet which makes it easy to follow along with your browser as you watch me describe Wordpress features and best practices. 

  Some say I am a little long winded with my explanations, however I am that way because I want all to understand. Some aspects of Wordpress are very apparent to some while others struggle with understanding how a certain feature works. Fast learners may want to cruise through the video at a faster pace. 

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Instructor Details

Jerad Hill

Hi all, I am a website designer and photographer who has been working for himself since graduating high school. I taught myself website design and development so I could start my own business. In 2005 I taught myself photography and started a photography business as a professional wedding photographer. Since then, I have helped hundreds companies and organizations market their products and services online. As a photographer, I continue to capture photos and produce video for weddings, events, conferences and more.

I teach because I was taught by so many through blog posts, articles and online videos. Teaching allows me to give back and teach others the way I would have liked to be taught. Many of my courses are free because I believe in giving back.

I am a husband and father with three amazing kids. You can learn more about me at my website. I hope to see you in one of my courses. Thanks so much!

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Reviews

4.3

1,086 ratings on Udemy

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By David K Parker on 11/18/2020

Some of the core classes were out of order, which made it a little confusing. You were talking about one thing, but then the next video was about something else. Just a little confusing. Maybe you can rearrange them when you do an update. Wonderful information, easily understood, and at the perfect pace for me. Great Course.

By Igor Ristovski on 3/4/2020

After taking this free course, all I can say is that by far that is the best free course I've ever known. Thank you very much. I like Jill's in depth, clear and slow-paced explanations, and his enthusiasm as well. This course is so much better than many paid courses on the same subject.

By Man-Kin Chan on 3/30/2018

I'm on section 7 of the series titled Appearance and the videos are out of order making it confusing when he mentions something that he says we already talked about but haven't yet in the video sequence menu. Section 13 Episode 50 doesn't exist. The instructor also mentions attachments and links at the end of the course/video and they cannot be found. Outdated and not updated=not worth it.

By Brandon Flynn on 4/24/2017

The author is a good person to learn from because he personally uses everything he's teaching. Lots of in-depth content. I found myself wanting some brevity and skimming sections that I wasn't interested in; but I guess that's okay. I feel like I can tackle a WordPress site.

By James Budd on 8/3/2015

I bought this course on sale, as I often do, on Udemy. It's always a bit of a gamble whether they offer much value, but this course was really really well done. It's a little out of date now, but still very practical. Really good presenter laid out in a logical clear order. I haven't finished the whole course yet -- I skipped the last section on adding e-commerce as I am not including that in my current site -- but will be coming back to it later. Thank you Jerad for helping me build my site!

By David Hultgren on 6/13/2015

This was a very informative course. I highly recommend it. The only downside I have to mention is the the demonstration screens are too small and unreadable. It was difficult to visually follow. Author needs to zoom in on items that he is demonstrating. Nonetheless, this is a must view course!!!

By Craig Foster on 3/24/2015

The course was easy to follow and very thorough. Great way to get started with WordPress. My only complaint is that the video quality wasn't that great. I have a 27" iMac and running at full screen made the content very grainy while running at regular screen size, specific items were difficult to read. Thanks for putting this together, this definitely got me off and running.

By Luz Garay on 9/24/2014

I am a new user of WordPress and I enrolled in this class to help become familiar with the workings. Overall the content was very good, the videos seemed to be pretty high quality production. A couple of things that kind of bugged me were that at the onset, the instructor says that the course is for new WP users and/or folks that have had a website built for them using WP that they must now maintain. By the end it seems like it's geared more towards the latter as it kind of glosses over some areas that I would have liked more information on - just a few more details on some of the areas like custom fields, etc. I was left wondering what they were for and did some of my own research as well. A couple of the videos seem to be out of order so that was a touch confusing when the next one started, and I didn't care for a separate intro video to each section - I just felt that it could have been rolled into the first video, although it may be easier to update in that format as new content is added. I really liked the class, and I am excited to start playing with the platform and see what I can do!

By Himara Van Haevermaet on 5/4/2014

I'm new to Wordpress and so after installing it decided to take Jerad's course to teach me the basics. Jerad covers all the basic functions in great detail and goes at at pace which allows me to work along with him on my site. There is a really detailed section on Woo Commerce too which I found very useful. I'll be checking out Jerads other courses after completing this one!

By Keith Maderer on 2/26/2014

Jerad definitely placed a lot of effort into organizing this course. His photography and video background are a great asset to his presentation. If you use his course in one window and have a WP website that you can follow in another window, pause and actually use what he is explaining in the course, you will learn faster and have your sites up and running sooner. Thanks you for the time and effort and I would recommend Jerad Hill's other courses based solely on this one.

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