WordPress.com Essential Training (2012)

This course shows how to establish a web presence quickly and easily with WordPress.com, without having to download any software or set up web hosting. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to sign up for an account, personalize your profile, and start posting content right away. The course also includes tutorials on everything from adding images, video, formatting, and links that make blog posts pop to installing plug-ins, creating custom themes, and attracting readers with social sharing, and more.

Topics include:

Setting up an account
Editing your profile
Publishing posts and pages
Utilizing page templates
Inserting images, video, and other media
Working with themes
Understanding widgets
Working with the Twenty Eleven theme
Integrating social sharing
Deciding whether to move to a self-hosting solution