Hi Peter
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I have been teaching WordPress for over a decade and have taught tens of thousands of students to use this versatile, site-building tool. Over the years I have received a lot of questions about different aspects of using WordPress that go a little beyond the basics.
Recently, I asked students for feedback on what they would like to see in a new, "Intermediate" course on essential WordPress Skills. From the feedback I received, I created a new course that will take your WordPress skills to the next level and make you a better WordPress developer. The course has over 8.5 hours of video and 85 lectures divided up into 16 main sections.
Here is a list of things my students wanted to see, that have made it to the course.
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Staging a website - How to setup a staging environment so that you can work on a copy of your site and only push those changes to the live site when you are happy with those changes.
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GDPR - What it is, how it affects you and what you need to do to be compliant.
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Design Stuff - Lots of design-related lectures covering stuff like page builders, creating dynamic sidebars so different sections of your site can have different content in the sidebars, jump links, About Us page best practices, Google Map integration without a plugin, creating and deploying favicons, changing post order, e.t.c..
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Site Speed & mobility - How to check the load times of your pages and how you can make your pages load faster. Also checking your site is mobile-friendly.
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Using Let's Encrypt to quickly convert your HTTP site to HTTPS. Note that this is only available if your host supports this certificate, but most do.
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WordPress Files - understanding what folders & files WordPress installs on your server, which ones are important for you to know about (and possibly edit at some point), and which ones should not be touched. You'll see how to easily access these files & folders with FTP or cPanel's File Manager.
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Using Google Chrome Developer Tools to inspect and tweak the code behind your website. Make changes to the design of your site by testing changes first, then applying them to the live site.
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WordPress "Pages" - including parent-child pages, post templates, template hierarchy, conditional statements, custom page templates & custom post templates.
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Child themes - Why you should use one and how to create these manually or using a plugin.
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CTR & Time on Site - How to monitor these metrics and make changes to your site to increase click-through rates. Increasing click-through rates are the simplest way of increasing traffic to your site.
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WordPress problems & maintenance mode - the main causes of WordPress breaking and how to fix them.
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Redirects - What they are, why and how to use them.
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Site Structure - How to use WordPress to build different types of websites, from business sites to blogs.
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How Autoresponders work - and why they are a great tool for your site.
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WordPress Users & Roles - what roles are for and how you can create your own roles for your users.
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Media Library & Image Galleries - How to turbo charge your image galleries.
This course has just been published on Udemy and you can get it for an introductory price of just 9.99 using the coupon link below:
https://www.udemy.com/wordpress-intermediate/?couponCode=NEWCOURSE
These coupons are limited and remaining coupons will expire on 1st August, 2019.
kind regards
Andy Williams
10 Cheyne Walk
Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 5PT
UNITED KINGDOM
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