WordPress for Beginners: Create Your Own WordPress Website (Udemy.com)
Join our complete WordPress course to easily create a professional Wordpress website: no experience or coding necessary!
Created by: Phil Ebiner
Last updated April 2024
What you will learn
- Build your own beautiful website using WordPress.
- Design your WordPress website the way you imagine.
- Host and publish your website in an inexpensive and secure way.
- Customize your WordPress website for any purpose of yours - whether it's a blog, a portfolio to show off your work, or an e-commerce site to sell your products or services.
- You will know how to design pages, menus, sidebars, footers, and create a professional and modern website.
- You will know how to find and install themes.
- You will know how to find and install plugins.
- You will know how to back up your WordPress website in case of emergency.
- You will know how to get your website found by search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
- You will know how to set up email opt-in forms throughout your website.
- You will know how to increase social sharing of your posts and pages with free plugins.
How it compares
Against the other 102 rated Udemy courses in WordPress on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 52% of them
- Reviews5,386#6 of 103 by number of reviews
- Length7.9 hourslonger than 65% of them
- Last updatedApril 2024more recently than 53% of them
Course Description
You're here because you want to create your own WordPress websites, right?
This WordPress for Beginners course is the perfect place to start. This complete WordPress course is designed for beginners like you who have never built a WordPress website (or any website for that matter).
WordPress is the perfect tool for creating a fully customized website for any purpose. Whether you want to create a blog, a personal portfolio, or a business website to sell your products and services, you can do it with WordPress.
While WordPress might seem scary from the outside, once you get started, it's fairly intuitive. Everything from hosting to installing a theme, then actually building your first pages can be learned in the first few lessons of this course.
With this WordPress course, you don't need to actually pay for hosting to practice with WordPress. I'll show you how to create a free temporary site so you can follow along.
Why learn WordPress from me?
I've been building WordPress websites for years. Just like you, there was a time when I was a complete newbie! I was honestly scared of starting a WordPress website because it seemed so daunting.
Now I love WordPress! I wouldn't recommend using any other web-building tool.
I still remember what it is like to be a beginner, and I've kept that in mind while creating this entire course. I walk you through every process step-by-step to make sure you understand things clearly. And if there is ever anything that is confusing, just let me know and I'll create more lessons that explain or walk you through myself.
WORDPRESS COURSE CONTENT:
Build your own beautiful website using WordPress.
Design your WordPress website the way you imagine.
Customize your WordPress website for any purpose of yours - whether it's a blog, a portfolio to show off your work, or an e-commerce site to sell your products or services.
Host and publish your website in an inexpensive and secure way.
Design pages, menus, sidebars, footers, and create a professional and modern website.
Find and install themes.
Find and install plugins.
Back up your WordPress website in case of emergency.
Get your website found by search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Set up email opt-in forms throughout your website.
Increase social sharing of your posts and pages with free plugins.
Set up comments and contact pages, while blocking spam.
Speed up your website with caching plugins.
Make your website secure and protected from hackers.
Set up a membership and / or e-commerce site.
DESIGN A WORDPRESS WEBSITE THAT WORKS FOR YOU:
No matter what your goal is with your WordPress website, I want to make sure you're able to achieve those goals. That's what I promise to help you out with.
WORDPRESS PLUGINS YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
JetPack
Google Analyticator
Google Analytics Dashboard
Backup Buddy
BackUp WordPres
VaultPress
All in One SEO Pack
Yoast SEO
Google XML Sitemaps
W3 Total Cache
WP Super Cache
SumoMe
MailPoet
Optin Monster
LeadPages
OptimizePress
Share by SumoMe
Floating Social Icons
Akismet
Disqus
Contact Form 7
Fast Secure Contact Forms
PrettyLink
Redirection
Editorial Calendar
Sucuri
WordFence Security
many more!
Who is this WordPress course for?
This course is for anyone brand new to creating WordPress websites. If you have never built a website before, great. If you've built a website on another platform like Wix, Weebly, GoDaddy, or others, that's fine too. This course is not for people trying to learn to code a custom Website. In this course, we'll learn how to use the thousands of themes and plugins already out there to design our own custom websites.
With our 30-day 100% money-back guarantee, there's no reason to hesitate. Enroll now, try it out, and see if you like the course!
I can't wait to help you build your own WordPress website!
Cheers,
Phil
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
5,386 Reviews
Phil Ebiner
I’m Phil Ebiner, an educator, photographer, filmmaker, and founder of Video School and Photography & Friends. Through my online courses and creative community, I’ve helped millions of students around the world learn practical skills in photography, video production, design, and more. My goal is to make creative skills feel accessible, useful, and encouraging, whether you’re picking up a camera for the first time or looking to take your work to the next level.
My teaching style is clear, supportive, and hands-on. I break complex topics into simple steps, explain the “why” behind each technique, and share real-world examples you can immediately apply. As a photographer and filmmaker, I believe great creative work is not just about gear or settings, but about storytelling, intention, observation, and connection. My goal is to help you feel confident, inspired, and capable of bringing your own creative ideas to life.
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Reviews
By Sailles Sutton on 12/31/2024
Beginning of the course was very confusing as it did not match what my screen looked like. Had to go to another course to understand what I was doing. Once I understood the screen differences the rest of the course was very informative and helpful, easy step by step explanations as well as showing which sections would simply need you to spend time playing around with to fully understand. Nice Work!
By Ariel Miranda on 2/1/2023
I can say that this course was good in my learning of wordpress, yet was lacking in a few areas. Pros- 1) Phil explained thoroughly how some of the features and plugings in WP work. 2) I was able to navigate through WP with little difficulty even though I had never worked with WP before. 3)I liked the fact that he provides a page with different options to webhosting and that he used free plugins in his tutorials. Cons- 1) A number of the plugins used in the course were outdated or no longer in use. I had to skip over the entire section on One Page Website demonstration because the way that the Sydney theme appeared in the tutorial videos was not how it showed on my screen after I downloaded it. 2) The way that section 2 was reedited disrupted the flow of the section,leaving out certain things that were never explained. 3) Even though I cannot fault Phil for trying to grow his business to potential clients, I felt at times throughout the course that he spent a little bit too much time talking about his blog. 4)The questions section was not very resourceful.Many questions I wanted to know the answer to that were previously asked by other people were left unanswered or unresolved.
By Hemant D. Pednekar on 1/24/2023
This course is very much useful for the beginners. With the help of this course, I was able to develop and deploy my own website. I would like to request Phil to look at my website https://bhmumh.co.in It is developed purely with the help of this course and is still under development. I request Phil to give me the feedback on my website https://bhmumh.co.in to my email id bhmumh@gmail.com
By Terra Nova on 3/14/2022
Content information was GREAT...but trying to follow along was extremely difficult; the screenshots were too small and were clicked on very quickly without giving us a chance to really see where Phil was on the screen. The different websites Phil made references to in the first sections of the course got really confusing; Ebiner Designs, Phil Ebiner.com, etc. I did learn a lot and despite the difficulties encountered with this course, I do plan on looking into Phil's other classes.
By Jane Stepak on 3/3/2019
I learned several new things from this course. I really like Phil's teaching style. It's also very easy to listen to his voice. (This was an important factor when I was evaluating different course choices.) I appreciated how Phil tried to find good free plugin options as often as possible. I also appreciate that Phil encouraged us to contact him if we had any questions, etc. I really like that each lesson was 5 - 10 minutes in length. Very easy to fit a lesson into my day. I highly recommend this course.
By Arya Haghani on 3/1/2019
This course is just guiding the learner to follow steps of making a website step by step and makes the person to be motivated. It has a very standard format of recording and good quality of videos and sounds. The only thing which I think this course might be missing is to help you much better with some technical related issues rather than focusing on the general ones although it's labeled for beginners.
By Pierre de Witt on 11/27/2017
Phil Ebiner is a household name on Udemy and he proves that attribute in this course. The knowledge you get from the lessons is actually applicable to real world situations. I like that he always tries to minimise the costs because that's essential when you're starting out. He’s also a genuine instructor and quite transparent about his business policies which I find very refreshing. Lessons that are around one minute long should be incorporated into other ones because they don’t increase the quality, only the number of lessons in the course. The instructor doesn’t present himself as some faraway figure who birthed this course and afterwards isn’t interested in how it’s doing. He exhibits will to solve problems that might subsequently appear like the ones mentioned in Lesson 13 or 36. Overall, it surely poses as a good WordPress introductory course that is interwoven with bits that belong to more of an intermediate skill.
By Gaurav Yadav on 10/10/2017
This is incredible course, Phil is direct to point, all practical experienced based insight, lots of tips and insight into what one need to stay lean and yet be comprehensive and competitive. Excellent course coverage, enough to deliver value, to setup one up to start their own journey and save huge amount of time and effort. Live hands on implementation of different themes is incredible. Best Part is The Bonus on Email Marketing, Which tied up all the learning throughout the course to fulfilling a practical need of a small business. It all made sense, how different components taught in course make a whole pie to fulfill a business function. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Joy and Gratitude P.s - Feel a lecture on next steps on what next after implementing the learning would help set the path. A must Hand-Holding / Guidance / Advice for Beginners.
By Enzo Coloso on 5/10/2017
Great,powerful and amazing course. A really comprehensive guide on creating wordpress website on all its features and functions plus an email marketing section on this course that will help you get clients and turn them into customers. I really wished I have learned this when I was a beginner in the internet marketing industry it would have save me tons of money spent and hours wasted. I learned all about the wordpress essentials from buying hosting service and registering a domain and installing wordpress. I have learned from the beginning the essential wordpress page the home page,start here page and the most visited page the resource page. All credible and high profitable website offer a resource page for their visitor to utilize. There is also the eCommerce business section on how to shopping cart system using wordpress plugins.The lesson on SSL certificate which is for your site protection is a very valuable on that I have really learned a lot.Also the sales funnel section case study. I have really enjoyed how the course instructor provided a website transformation workflow from scratch with a model to copy. It will help you visualize the things that you need to do from the concepts to the details of setting the page,plugins and widgets that is essential for a high level functioning website. All of the lessons for you to become a successful website creator and to integrate your funnel to get prospects and turn them into clients is in the course you will learn exactly how to do it. Take this course now and become a professional wordpress website builder.Start attracting leads and turn them into clients that will purchase your products and services that will earn you thousands to millions of dollars just like the course instructor results. Thank you so much :D
By Jay Ryan on 3/14/2017
This is the first I have ever looked into building a web site and I think Phil has done an excellent job of giving me the information I need, plus a lot more. I really like the 'bite size' way he gives each step in a separate video, it makes it easy to go back and get specific points later. I also really appreciate the quick response he has given to questions I have asked, no waiting for days checking for a reply! I think everyone who is a complete novice should a lot out of this course.
By Iwona Lilley on 10 months ago
The course offers a very thorough step by step information, and good news is, you can always get back to it to remember the procedures better. I do recommend this course for any beginner with WP website.
By Ian Smith on 8 months ago
good course. covered lots. really good structure and content. very practical. I already have a (poor) wordpress site, really have ideas about how to make it far more impactful and useful. highly recommended course.
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