Lesson 1: What is a Website and How Does It Work?

In this article, we’ll explain what a website is, how it works, its types, and everything you need to know about websites. Let’s get started. What is a Website? – Definition As the name implies, a website refers to a ‘site’ on the ‘web’ where you can put information about your business or organization and internet [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 2: What is Web Hosting? Web Hosting Explained for Beginners

Web hosting provides a secure place to store online content. The code, images, videos, and text that comprise a website all have to be stored somewhere. When you type in a web address on the web browser, it starts to search for the particular website on the server where it is located. And then, the [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 3: What WordPress is good for? And why choose WordPress?

Now that you are familiar with the importance of a website, you might want one for your business. Chances are that you have no idea about making websites. Normally, making a website involves learning codes that take months of practice and experience. Web pages are made by writing and combining different computer languages. HTML (Hypertext [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 4: Instructions to install WordPress Website on localhost using XAMPP

Want to install XAMPP and WordPress – aka. install WordPress locally? This is a great idea if you want a development site that can be used for testing or other purposes. XAMPP lets you run a website from your very own computer. And once you get it set up, you can spin up a new [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 5: What is a Domain Name? Domains Explained for Beginners

A domain name is essentially your website’s equivalent of a physical address. In the same way that a GPS needs a street address or a zipcode to provide directions, a web browser needs a domain name to direct you to a website. A domain name takes the form of two main elements. For example, the [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 6: Choosing the right domain name for your Website

Choosing the right domain name for your website is crucial for your success. If you choose the wrong domain name, then it can be a hassle to switch later on without hurting your brand and search rankings. In fact, your domain name is as much a part of your brand as your business name or [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 7: Buy and register your chosen domain name (example with Google Domains)

There are plenty of registrars you can use; but it is recommended to register your domain through your hosting provider. For buying a domain name, for example, with Google domain, you just login to your gmail (or firstly create your account) and buy it as following: Once you’ve added your domain name to your cart, [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 8: Transfer a domain name to your host

If you’ve already registered your domain at another domain registrar, you can also transfer your domain from that registrar to your host, for example: Google Domains. The process is fairly similar but you’ll also need to perform some actions at the registrar where your domain name is currently registered. To get started, open your Google Domains [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 9: How to choose the right web hosting

Perhaps the most important factor when choosing a web hosting service is knowing exactly what your business needs from the provider. Most of the web hosting providers (whether listed below or not) will work with you to provide the service and features you request, but only if you can express those needs in a coherent [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 10: Point a Domain Name to Another Web Hosting (example of Google Domains to IONOS)

It is recommended to register your domain through your hosting provider; so you can ignore this step. If not, you must point your domain to your host before building your website. For example: you bought a domain at Google Domains, but your web hosting is at IONOS; so you must point your Google domain to [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 11: Building a WordPress Website using the One-Click Auto-installing on IONOS host

Most hosting companies offer some form of automatic WordPress installation. In a few cases, this means that they’ll actually do the installation for you, but mostly it means that they have a program that you use to do the auto-install. In this guide, for example, we’ll install WordPress in just a few clicks with IONOS [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 12: Logging into and customizing the WordPress Admin Area Overview

One of WordPress’s greatest strengths is the user-friendliness of its administration interface. From both an organizational and a design standpoint, it’s laid out in a way that’s intuitive. As with any system, of course, you need to take some time and learn how it works, where things are, and so on, and that’s what this [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 12bis: Reset or change the WordPress admin user and password forgotten with phpMyAdmin

If you lost your user and/or password of your website’s admin dashboard, and the confirmation emails do not arrive; or if you have no access to the email account linked to your administrative dashboard, you can reset your password and also your admin user via MySQL database. Step 1: Create your new password Access to [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 13: Customizing the WordPress Admin Area Overview and Basic Admin Settings

WordPress has dozens of administrative settings at your disposal, but you’ll probably use most of the default settings for as long as you run your site. So, the good news is you don’t need to mess with more than a few settings as you begin to build your site. This lesson familiarizes you with the pages [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 14: Installing and Activating Plugins in WordPress

There are a lot of things that WordPress doesn’t do, and that’s a good thing. The simpler the base, the more secure, the more bug-free, and the more efficient it can be. It’s also easier to update a simple structure. But you’ll probably want WordPress to do more, and that’s where plugins fit in, so [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 14bis: How to Install, Deactivate and Delete a WordPress Plugin: A Step By Step Guide

A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. After installing WordPress, the first thing every beginner needs to learn is how to install a WordPress plugin. We have covered two methods: installing [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 15: Adding and Publishing a New Post in WordPress (with default Gutenberg Block Editor)

This article show you how to add a post in WordPress – the most important job for your website. In fact, after logging in the WordPress admin area, you can add a new Post from several locations on any admin screen: The Add New link on the main admin menu under Posts (Figure 1, item [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 16: Switching back to classic editor by installing the Classic Editor Plugin in WordPress

In the waning days of 2018, WordPress unveiled the new post and page editor named Gutenberg and the world rejoiced. And by “rejoiced,” I mean they almost universally heaped condemnation and hatred upon the defenseless new editor. Users were accustomed to what became known as the “classic editor” in WordPress, and the modern new block [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 17: Adding and Publishing a New Post in WordPress with Classic Editor Plugin

In this lesson, we will show you in this video how to add a post in WordPress – the most important job for your website, with Classic Editor Plugin. You can add a new Post from several locations on any admin screen: The Add New link on the main admin menu under Posts (Figure 1, [ ...] [ ...]

Lesson 18: Formatting and Styling Text in WordPress with Content Editor

I showed you how to create a post in WordPress. Now, I will guide you how to format and style text in the content editor. Note that if you use classic editor, see the article of working with text in the classic content editor. Here, I focus on the default Gutenberg content editor of WordPress. [ ...] [ ...]