Build A Professional Website With WordPress.Com

Description

In this course you’ll learn how to use the powerful WordPress.com platform to set up your website, with step-by-step instructions on how to add content including pages and blog posts; select and customize a beautiful theme; add widgets and plugins to further expand your site’s features; connect it to your social networks; and upload media, including videos and images, to enhance the style and mood of your site. You’ll also learn the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) to boost your site’s visibility and how to use WordPress.com’s analytics to generate more traffic to your site. By the end of the course, you’ll have created and launched a full website and blog (optional, but highly recommended!).

WordPress CMS (content management system) is a system that lets a user organize, manage, and publish content on the web, using the powerful, open-source WordPress software. The WordPress CMS is typically used with themes (templates) to facilitate layout design, and plugins to add extra, custom functionality to the platform.