WordPress and Genesis DIY: Freelance/Independent Website [repost]

WordPress and Genesis DIY: Freelance/Independent Website
Size: 222MB | Duration: 1h 14m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280×720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Build a website for your independent business in the same spirit you run it. DIY (do it yourself) with WordPress and Genesis, the WordPress theme framework. In this course, Carrie Dils shows how to create a website complete with features such as a contact form, social media sharing buttons, and even recipes. She walks through every step in the process: from site planning and finding the right plugins, to installing a new child theme and customizing the appearance of your site to make it match your brand. She also offers tips for prepping and sharing your site with the world.

Find more courses in this series in our WordPress DIY playlist.

WordPress Workflows [repost]

WordPress Workflows
183MB | Duration: 1h 06m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280×720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

If your WordPress workflow is streamlined from the start, development is simpler, more organized, and more efficient—all the way through to publication. In this course, lynda.com staff author Morten Rand Hendriksen covers three common WordPress workflows. First he’ll tackle building a simple WordPress site: from host setup to basic content management. Then he shows how to take that basic workflow a step further by customizing a theme. Last, Morten covers the professional tools and techniques you need to use when you’re developing sites for clients, including setting up a staging environment and version control.

Bootstrap to WordPress: Build custom responsive themes! [repost]

Bootstrap to WordPress: Build custom responsive themes!
MP4 | Video: 1280×720 | 58 kbps | 44 KHz | Duration: 6 Hours | 2.38 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Create a stunning custom WordPress theme from scratch using the responsive Bootstrap 3 framework. Also covers PHP basics

Master the art of building custom WordPress themes from scratch using Bootstrap!

WordPress is the most popular CMS on the web and powers a large percentage of websites today. In this course i will guide you step by step, to building your own custom responsive theme using the popular Boostrap framework.

No more looking around for pre built themes and making them fit your website. Or even paying for themes on sites such as Themeforest.

This course will give you the knowledge to either build your own custom site and convert to WordPress, or convert your existing static HTML website to WordPress!

You can even use what you learn to publish and sell your own themes on Themeforest!

From the beginning you will get to work on our Spa theme template with Boostrap. Don’t worry if you have not used Bootstrap before, if you have a little HTML & CSS experience I will guide you through.

Build Your Own Pro-Quality WordPress Website

Build Your Own Pro-Quality WordPress Website
MP4 | Video: AVC 1280×720 | Audio: AAC 44KHz 2ch | Duration: 3 Hours | 570 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

An easy-to-follow course how how to build your own pro-quality WordPress website powered by the Genesis Framework.

Whether you’re a business owner, an entrepreneur, a marketing manager or a website designer with not much experience in WordPress, this course will teach you how to build a great-looking, high-performing WordPress-powered website, without spending more money than you have to.

When you complete the course, you’ll be a lot more comfortable at publishing and editing your own WordPress website – and being aware of the pitfalls to avoid.

You’ll be shown how to set up your domain, what host to use, how to install WordPress and what settings are essential to get right at the beginning.

You’ll also be shown how and why you should use the Genesis Theme Framework and how to manage your own site design within a Genesis Child Theme.

You’ll learn…

– How to register a domain, where to register it and how to point the domain towards your website host

– What the difference between different website hosting options are and which option is right for them

– How to set up WordPress on both HostGator and Traffic Planet Hosting

– How to edit the core WordPress settings to ensure that the site set-up is optimized

– How to install and optimize Genesis, the leading WordPress Theme Framework and understand why using Genesis is important

– How to find, select, install, optimize and personalise Genesis Child Themes so that the overall site design is modern and appealing

– What WordPress Widgets are, how to use them and how they add additional site functionality

– What WordPress Plugins do, why they are important and how they impact different aspects of a site

No prior knowledge is required. However, you should have an intention to or a desire to build a great-looking, modern, WordPress-powered website

If you’re a frustrated website manager, a designer that needs to understand how to really use WordPress or a freelance entrepreneur that wants to build your own site, then this course is ideal for you.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer (Repost)

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer by George Plumley
Publisher: Wrox | 2011 | ISBN: 1118066901 | 408 pages | PDF | 36,6 MB

As an open source content management system, WordPress allows users to easily build feature-rich web sites with no programming experience. This unique book-and-video package is a friendly, self-paced beginners guide to the latest release of WordPress. Lessons are focused on practical, everyday tasks that users will need to create and maintain their sites: entering new content, creating new pages, managing menus, making content search-engine friendly. Plus you’ll find lots of tips based on years of experience teaching people to use WordPress. You’ll also learn how to extend the functionality of WordPress by using the thousands of plugins available. Connecting to social media, creating membership and e-commerce sites, setting up events calendars, making your site mobile-friendly—these are just some of the plugins you’ll be introduced to.Each lesson in the book is supplemented by an instructional video on the accompanying DVD, intended to enhance your learning experience. Plus, a trouble-shooting appendix addresses various issues to help you solve any challenges you may face. If learning the new WordPress is a pressing issue for you, then this book-and-video package is exactly what you need.