Lynda - WordPress.com Essential Training

Size: 439 MB | Duration: 2h 25m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Learn how to create your own website or blog with WordPress.com—the free, easy-to-use service that is democratizing publishing on the web. In these tutorials, Carrie Dils shows how to sign up for a WordPress.com account, personalize your profile, and start posting right away. Plus, learn how to add the images, videos, and links that make blog posts pop; enable social sharing and mobile browsing; and change the appearance of your site with custom themes, widgets, and menus. Drawing on her 15+ years of experience designing for the web, Carrie also provides her insights on finding and growing an audience, and deciding when it's time to grow by upgrading your account or moving on to self-hosting with WordPress.org.

Topics include:

* Creating a WordPress.com account

* Updating your profile

* Importing content

* Publishing posts

* Applying categories and tags to posts

* Inserting images, videos, and other media

* Creating a new page

* Customizing your site with themes and widgets

* Managing users, notifications, and comments

* Using WordPress.com apps

* The limits of WordPress.com and the benefits of self-hosting