Complete Wordpress & Elementor Mastery Course

Build a Beautiful Travel Blog in Less Than 14 Days

What you'll learn
Learn how to build beautiful, responsive WordPress websites and blogs using Elementor Page Builder
Discover how to build your WordPress site 'locally' on your computer without having to buy a domain name or hosting,
Learn how to migrate your 'local' website on your computer and push it 'live' onto your actual domain name with hosting
Understand what a domain name is, how to buy one and how to use it for your next WordPress website
Grasp all of the details of WordPress posts, pages and tags and understand the relationships with categories and parent/child pages
Quickly develop beautiful websites, blogs and landing pages using Elementor Page Builder and the hundreds of pre-made website templates
Learn all about domain hosting, from the budget-friendly to the lightening fast web servers to catapult your search engine rankings
Introduction to search engine optmisations, including on-page and off-page optimisations to maximise your organic search traffic to your website
Create effective custom menu's that allow your visitors and search engines to navigate your website and quickly find what they are searching for
Understand what WordPress plugins and themes are, and how to install them for extra website functionality
Protect your website from hackers and spammers and prevent brute-force attacks using Wordfence
Create a professional, static homepage that will keep visitors returning time and time again
Learn how you can quickly 'rinse and repeat' your WordPress site and Elementor theme templates so you can quickly build more websites and blogs
Build websites and blogs that are optimised for speed that visitors and search engines are going to love you for
Requirements
No prior knowledge of WordPress is required. Learn everything from scratch, with an 'over-the-shoulder- view
No coding skills are required. You won't have to go near a single line of code!
You will need a working computer that is connect to the internet, and an internet browser of your choice
An Elementor Pro subscription costs $49 per year, and is fully refundable within 30 days if you do not wish to continue with it
Description
Ever had a business idea that you had to let slide because you didn't know how to build a website, or have been quoted thousands for someone else to build one for you? That all changes after this course. Learn how to build a beautiful, responsive WordPress website in less than 2 weeks. After completion, you will be able to confidently transform any business or blog ideas into life overnight with the power of WordPress and the industry-leading visual page builder - Elementor. Discover how you can apply templates to websites to build something new in a matter of hours. Not weeks, or even days, but hours. Build beautiful, modern websites for yourself,  or master your craft and start charging new clients for your new in-demand skill set. Doors open and opportunities reveal themselves once you can proficiently design and build a website - a website just like we will build in this WordPress & Elementor Master Course. You will also master the basics of SEO (Seach Engine Optimisation) and how you can drive traffic to your website completely for free. Ready to invoke some change and take a giant leap in your career, professional and personal life? Great news and fantastic to hear…and I will see you inside

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What you will learn from this course

Lecture 2 Who is this course for?

Lecture 3 Meet the website you are going to build

Section 2: WordPress - Powering The Internet

Lecture 4 What is WordPress and why we are using it

Lecture 5 Wordpress.com or Wordpress.org?

Section 3: Understanding The Basics

Lecture 6 All you need to know about section 3

Lecture 7 Web hosting 101

Lecture 8 Understanding what a domain name is

Lecture 9 Understanding the techy jargon (cheatsheet download)

Section 4: Setting Up Wordpress Locally Without Hosting

Lecture 10 All you need to know about section 4

Lecture 11 What is Local WP?

Lecture 12 Installing & configuring Local WP

Lecture 13 Creating your first WordPress site locally

Section 5: WordPress - Getting under the hood

Lecture 14 All you need to know about section 5

Lecture 15 Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard

Lecture 16 Configuring our WordPress settings

Lecture 17 Introduction to the block editor - creating our first post

Lecture 18 Adding a few more posts using the classic editor

Lecture 19 Installing and customising themes

Section 6: Building Our Website Using Elementor

Lecture 20 All you need to know about section 6

Lecture 21 What is Elementor?

Lecture 22 Understanding the WordPress template files

Lecture 23 Download and install Elementor Pro onto our website

Lecture 24 Introduction to the Elementor settings

Lecture 25 Elementor settings continued

Lecture 26 Creating our main menu

Lecture 27 Creating our footer menu

Lecture 28 How to make your own logo

Lecture 29 Adding a logo to our website

Lecture 30 Design & build the header

Lecture 31 Design & build the header…continued

Lecture 32 Design & build the footer

Lecture 33 Designing the homepage (banner)

Lecture 34 Designing the home page (counters section)

Lecture 35 Designing the home page (polaroids section)

Lecture 36 Complete this only if you have problems with global styles in next Lesson

Lecture 37 Adding global fonts and colours

Lecture 38 Tweaking the design elements of our homepage

Lecture 39 Designing the homepage (posts section)

Lecture 40 Designing the homepage (parallax section)

Lecture 41 Designing the homepage (inspiration section)

Lecture 42 Designing the homepage ("featured in" section)

Lecture 43 Adding a few more blog posts

Lecture 44 Building the archive (blog) page template

Lecture 45 Building the single post page template

Lecture 46 Amending the display conditions

Lecture 47 Final few details to our design

Lecture 48 Adding an About Us page

Lecture 49 Designing the Contact page

Lecture 50 Adding to our Travel Tips page

Lecture 51 Archive page templates on steroids

Lecture 52 Archive page templates continued

Lecture 53 Adding a resources page

Lecture 54 Designing the single page template

Lecture 55 Designing the error 404 and search results template files

Lecture 56 The art of responsive web design (homepage)

Lecture 57 Creating a responsive header and footer

Lecture 58 Adding responsiveness to the contact page, about and resources

Lecture 59 Adding responsive design to the archive templates

Lecture 60 Adding responsive design to the final templates

Section 7: Domain Name & Hosting

Lecture 61 All you need to know about section 7

Lecture 62 Set up a web hosting account with Hostinger

Lecture 63 Purchasing a domain name with Namecheap

Lecture 64 Changing our nameservers of our new domain

Lecture 65 Claiming your free domain with Hostinger Premium

Lecture 66 Getting familiar with the Hostinger dashboard

Section 8: Migrating Your Local Website To Your Web Hosting Account

Lecture 67 All you need to know about section 8

Lecture 68 Install Duplicator and create our migration package

Lecture 69 Migrate website to our server for the whole world to see!

Section 9: Additional Plugins and Configurations

Lecture 70 All you need to know about section 9

Lecture 71 Install and configure W3 Total Cache

Lecture 72 Measure your page loading times

Lecture 73 Install and configure Wordfence Security

Lecture 74 Install and configure Updraft Plus

Lecture 75 Updating our plugins and themes

Section 10: Driving Free Traffic To Our Website using SEO

Lecture 76 All you need to know about section 10

Lecture 77 What is SEO?

Lecture 78 The SEO work flow

Lecture 79 What are keywords?

Lecture 80 Keeping track of your keywords

Lecture 81 Determining your on-page SEO strategy for your website

Lecture 82 Creating a Google Ads account for the free keyword tools

Lecture 83 Keyword research with Google Keyword Planner

Lecture 84 Using Google Chrome Extensions to research keyword difficulty

Lecture 85 Keyword research straight from the browser using Keyword Surfer

Lecture 86 30-day free trial for Semrush

Lecture 87 Introduction to my favourite SEO tool - Semrush

Lecture 88 What is on page optimisation?

Lecture 89 Installing & configuring Rank Math

Lecture 90 On-page optimisation using Rank Math

Lecture 91 On-page optimisations continued

Section 11: *Extra* - Adding Google Analytics To Your Website

Lecture 92 Creating a Google Analytics account

Lecture 93 Installing the Google Tag to our website

Lecture 94 Additional resources to help with installations

Section 12: Building An Email List

Lecture 95 All you need to know about section 12

Lecture 96 Creating an Aweber account

Lecture 97 Adding a new business email address

Lecture 98 Configuring your email addresses with your email client

Lecture 99 Adding your sending domain name

Lecture 100 Creating a welcome email

Lecture 101 Adding a sign-up form to our footer

Lecture 102 Designing a pop-up to capture emails

Lecture 103 Tweak to the popup display conditions

Lecture 104 Updating our privacy policy page

Lecture 105 Scanning for cookies and adding a cookie policy

Section 13: Thats a wrap!

Lecture 106 Final words (and a big thank you from me)

A complete WordPress and Elementor development course to take you from beginner to expert,Perfect for anyone who wants to build beautiful websites that look great on any device such as mobile, tablet and computer,No need to purchase a domain name or hosting for this one - jump straight in and set up a 'local environment' that you can work on without having to pay a penny. You will learn how you can transfer (migrate) your local site and push it onto a real website, using your domain name and hosting whenever you are ready,If you are looking for a completely up-to-date course that is 100% made in May 2022, then this is the only WordPress course for you. No more outdated material!,This course is taught by Ricky Wallace, a WordPress developer, digital marketer, SEO ninja and entrepreneur. With over 11 years experience building WordPress websites, you're in safe hands to accelerate your knowledge from complete newbie to master jedi within just a few hours. Learn the power of WordPress and actually enjoy building beautiful, responsive websites and develop all of the skills to be a WordPress developer.,Perhaps you have dabbled with WordPress before, or even if you are complete new, now you can watch 'over-the-shoulder' of an expert and see exactly how they create stunning websites, so you can follow along and grasp all of the skills you may have missed from other similar courses