Get the Most Out Of Wordpress With These 5 Courses!

1) Building a Small Business Website with WordPress

Build a professional website for your small business with WordPress. Anyone can build a business’s presence online with the themes, plugins, and built-in functionality offered by WordPress. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website complete with a contact form, social sharing buttons, a blog, and a custom homepage. She teaches you how to think about your requirements in a smart way, and then walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new theme and customizing the appearance of your site to match your brand. Plus, get tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world—and implementing the security you need to keep it safe.

2) WordPress Ecommerce: WooCommerce: Sell anything with WooCommerce

Learn how to build an online store using one of the most popular and trusted ecommerce solutions for WordPress. WooCommerce provides advanced store management for physical, digital, and even subscription-based products in a clean and easy-to-understand package. Simply put, WordPress plus WooCommerce equals your online shopping portal on your terms. Join WooCommerce expert Patrick Rauland as he shows how to build your online store, complete with payment processing and shipping. Learn how to navigate the inventory, tax, and shipping settings; add products; manage sales; and customize your store's layout. Plus, learn how to integrate external services like Google Analytics and MailChimp for customer analytics and email marketing.

3) WordPress: Speeding Up Your Site

Slow loading speeds equal lost customers. In this course, instructor Patrick Rauland walks through steps you can take to make a typical WordPress site lightning fast. Patrick explains why speed is so important, then shows you how to check and monitor your speed. He describes how websites slow down and how to identify static and dynamic WordPress sites. Patrick goes into hosting and all the ways a good website host can speed up your site. He covers ways you can make sure media isn’t slowing down your site, such as optimizing images, using a content delivery network (CDN), and offloading audio and video files. Patrick shows you how to balance fast versus functional, in making sure plugins don’t slow down your site. After going over how to make your database more efficient, Patrick concludes with a discussion of caching and how “busting” your cache can speed up your site.

4) Wordpress for Beginners - Master Wordpress Quickly

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 over a decade of experience using and teaching Wordpress to people of all skill levels.

5) WordPress: Building a Paid Membership Site

Want to start making an income from your WordPress site? Try paid memberships. This course covers two great solutions for selling paid memberships with WordPress: Restrict Content Pro and iThemes Exchange Membership. They are both highly rated plugins, about equal in cost and functionality, and work right out of the box. In this course, WordPress guru Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to find, install, and configure Restrict Content Pro and iThemes Exchange Membership to restrict your content and accept payment from site members. He also shows how to set up discount codes and "drip content" that will keep your members coming back for more. Choose the solution you think will work for you and watch that chapter, or watch the entire course before making a decision.