Website Development (WordPress)

WordPress for Beginners – A Complete Guide to WordPress!

In 2025, it’s never been easier to build a fantastic, responsive website that looks great on computers, tablets, and mobile phones.  

You can learn WordPress WITHOUT having to buy web hosting or a domain name.  I’ll show you how you can set it all up on your own computer using free tools. 

NOTE: This course will always be updated to cover the latest version of WordPress. 

The primary goal of this course is to teach anyone, even a complete beginner, how to become a Wordpress guru in a few short hours, without lots of technical jargon.  I’ll guarantee that after taking this course you’ll have the knowledge you need to build a responsive, beautiful website with the latest version of WordPress.  Not only will you know more than 99% of WordPress users out there, but you’ll actually enjoy using WordPress too.

This course is taught by WordPress author and teacher, Dr. Andy Williams, who has been using WordPress since 2004, and teaching WordPress to people of all skill levels since then.

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About the Course

This course will guide you through every single step from installation to finished website.  I’ll show you how you can install WordPress on your own computer for free, so you don’t have to pay for a domain name or hosting fees while you complete this course.  Once you’ve got WordPress installed on your computer, you will learn how to build and run a successful, beautiful, responsive-design website you can be proud of.

After taking you through all of the main options in WordPress, explaining what each one does and how you set it up, I’ll let you watch over my shoulder as I build all of the components of a WordPress website.  I’ll give you an exact plan for creating a blog, a business site, or something completely custom.

Who is this WordPress course for? 

Have you ever wanted to build a professional looking website, but didn’t know where to start?  Now you can.  Wordpress for Beginners is a complete course for anyone, no matter what your technical ability.  This course assumes no prior knowledge!

At the start of the course, I’ll walk you through setting up WordPress on your own computer so that you don’t need to pay for a web host (or a domain name) while you master wordpress.  When you decide you want to put a website online, you can then watch over-my-shoulder as I buy a domain name and hosting, and install WordPress online.

Whether you decide to host your site on your own computer, or at a web host, you’ll be ready to start mastering WordPress.  We’ll start at the very beginning by logging in to have a look around to familiarize ourselves with the main areas of the Dashboard.

Once you are happy navigating around your new tools, we’ll go through the main features you will need as you create your site, including:

1. The WordPress editor, called Gutenberg.  This is where you enter all of your website content.
2. We’ll consider WordPress themes, and you’ll have the option of using a newer block theme, which gives you total control over your site design in WordPress’s Full Site Editor. Of course, many people still use the older non-block themes, so we cover those as well.
3. The Media Library, to manage your images, videos, sound files and other media you want to share on your site.
4. WordPress Settings, and I’ll take you step by step to set those up just right.
5. We’ll look at the differences between WordPress posts and pages, and I’ll give you a simple way of knowing which one to use on any occasion.
6. We’ll look at post excerpts, categories and tags, and how to use them on a well-structured site to maximize visitor experience and search engine ranking benefits.
7. You’ll see the two main ways you can set your homepage up.
8. We’ll create a contact form on the site so visitors can get in touch.
9. We’ll setup an About us page, and I’ll explain why this page is important and what information to include on it.
10. We’ll cover the legal pages you need.
11. We’ll discuss the navigation system on your site, and how you can set up customized navigation in the header, sidebar or footer of your site.  We’ll also talk about internal site linking.
12. You’ll learn how to use the Full Site Editor to customize a block theme, and how to use the Customizer (and other tools) for non-block themes.
13. We’ll cover WordPress security, and set up a system that will keep the site safe from hackers.
14. We’ll check out some great free plugins.
15. Finally, I’ll give you a 20 step plan for creating your site.

By the end of this course, you will have a website that you are truly proud of.