This Roadmap will help you purchase a domain name, install and set up WordPress, and get the essentials in place to create a personal or business blog/website (a blog and website are very similar and your WordPress-based site will be able to be used for either).
The roadmap is designed to walk you through:
- Purchasing a domain
- Setting your nameservers (geek speak for making sure everything points to the right place)
- Installing WordPress
- Tweaking the essential settings
- Choosing and applying a theme
- Uploading plugins
- Using Widgets
- Creating navigation menus
- Adding images and other media to your website/blog
- Creating pages and posts
- The WordPress block editor in detail
- Basic security and spam protection for your site
The Roadmap begins with an optional learn-by-doing challenge which is a great way to break through any barriers that you feel may stand in your way. This is a perfect place to begin if you have never created a website or blog before and want hands-on experience of how the process works.
This is followed by an in-depth over-the-shoulder course that details every step of the process, the different options you have to host and show your site to the world, and several pro-level insights and processes to ensure your blog is the best it can be and reaches as many people as possible.
Your Roadmap
OPTIONAL: 5-Day Build a Blog Challenge
This challenge will help you learn-by-doing and actually set up a blog/website in under 5 days. If you have never created a WordPress website before or feel nervous to do so, this challenge will remove those roadblocks and clear the way for you to proceed with confidence.
No experience required, and you do not even need to have a purchase or domain or hosting. The challenge will walk you through from zero to website hero in simple daily steps.
EXTRA TRAINING
WEBSITE & BLOG BUILDING ROADMAP EXTRAS
• A deeper look at WordPress Blocks and how you can use them on your new website or blog