WordPress Masterbook 2019: - Make a Website From Scratch For Total Beginners (Masterbook Series)

Last Updated: 7th November 2019. This book is aimed at WordPress beginners, not professional website developers, and covers all the basics that you need to know when creating your first WordPress website, whether you want to use WordPress for blogging, a standard brochure-style website, or e-commerce.N.B. This covers the 'main' type of WordPress, and NOT Wordpress.com. Topics covered include; - Creating Pages- Adding a Theme- Recommended Themes- Creating a Menu, Adding Pages to a Menu, Dropdown Menus- Posting (for blogging) including Categories- Uploading Images- Embedding (e.g. YouTube Videos)- Basic SEO to help your site rank better- Recommended plugins (e.g. for your SEO, Security, Social Media, to install Google Analytics)- Users (controlling who has access to your website)- Basic Security Plugins- Backup- E-commerce (with the free WooCommerce plugin)- Sourcing free, and cheap stock imagesPlease note: The free theme, Virtue, has a special, small, section in this book, but the book is neither theme-specific nor plugin-specific, and is not created by a theme or plugin provider to increase sales! Included are recommended free themes for various purposes (for example, blogging, e-commerce, portfolio). Free plugins for various purposes are also recommended.On purchase of this book, you are invited to join the Facebook Group 'WordPress Masterbook' for further support and knowledge-sharing.Additionally, in the 'Further Resources' section of the book, you will see how to get free, unlimited access to the eLearning online course that compliments this book. Dorcas Réamonn is a lecturer of ‘Digital Technology and Design’ and 'Technology and Design for Digital Marketing' and 'Digital Marketing' in the University College Dublin Smurfit School, as well as a trainer and consultant with Talentpool, and founder of Zonua. She works with the Innovation Academy in UCD on Design Thinking, Ideation and Creativity. Along with WordPress-related courses, Dorcas teaches in SEO, image and video editing, and Digital Marketing. She's also been making websites professionally for about ten years.To contact Dorcas quickly, look for @zonua on Twitter. Suggestions on improvements to future editions of this book are most welcome.

Dorcas Réamonn, B.E., M.Sc., Prof Dip founded Zonua in 2010 and has been making websites since then. 

Since 2012 she has been training, teaching and facilitating workshops for private and public institutions. She teaches WordPress at beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. She is an excellent and entertaining keynote speaker.

Dorcas lectures in the UCD Smurfit School at Masters level teaching modules, mainly related to the technical side of Digital Marketing to M.Sc. students. She's particularly interested in Design Thinking, WordPress, Learning and Education.