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The Complete WordPress Mastery Course
WordPress Essentials
WordPress Essentials Introduction (1:31)
WordPress: What & Why (2:46)
WordPress.org or WordPress.com? (1:03)
What you will need (1:24)
Understanding domain, hosting, and name servers (4:02)
Choosing a Domain Registrar & Hosting Company (3:54)
Installing WordPress on your domain (2:29)
Tour of an out-of-the-box WordPress site (1:30)
Tour of the WordPress dashboard (1:15)
Creating Pages and Posts (2:57)
Using the Visual Editor (3:37)
Working with images (5:42)
Hyperlinking : How to hyperlink anything in WordPress (1:43)
Configuring a blog, static site and mixed site (2:50)
Removing home page title & comments box (2:14)
Adding a flat navigation bar (2:11)
Adding a drop-down navigation bar (1:25)
Installing a free theme (2:28)
Installing a commercial theme (1:43)
Modifying your theme settings, adding a header (4:06)
Working with the Weaver theme (4:54)
Setting up Post Categories and Blog pages (3:21)
Using the Latest Posts, Post Categories & Custom Menu widgets (5:25)
Using the Text widget to post arbitrary Text or Images to your sidebar (4:58)
Using the Text widget to post a Youtube video (3:09)
Introduction to plugins: Akismet comment spam protection (3:11)
Using the RSSImport plugin; plugins that require shortcodes (7:05)
Installing a commercial plugin (1:05)
Permalinks (1:14)
Discussion settings & Comment moderation (2:19)
Privacy Settings
User Menu
Commercial themes (1:42)
Graphic sources (0:47)
WordPress Security (1:06)
WordPress Theme Selection & Customization
Introduction to WordPress Theme Selection & Customization (1:24)
How to choose a theme (4:29)
Outside tour of Associate theme (1:59)
Inside tour of Associate and Genesis themes (4:51)
Populating navbar and home page widget areas (6:28)
Adding a slider to Associate theme (7:29)
Other StudioPress examples (1:15)
Outside tour of ElegantThemes Feather theme (4:28)
Inside tour of Feather theme (2:59)
Feather theme: Populating home page (6:50)
Other ElegantThemes examples (2:48)
WooThemes Fresh News build (10:45)
Other WooThemes examples (2:23)
Tour of OptimizePress (3:08)
OptimizePress: Creating a squeeze page (6:16)
OptimizePress: Creating a sales page (5:22)
Thesis 1.8 or 2.0? (2:36)
Thesis 1.8 installation & quick tour (3:11)
Thesis: Adding header & navbar (4:33)
Adding Meteor Slider (3:51)
Adding center-page 4x2 table (4:38)
Adding footer widgets in Thesis (2:13)
Firebug CSS inspector tool; creating CSS overrides (4:46)
Weaver theme tour (3:35)
More Weaver theme options (5:01)
What is a responsive theme? (4:08)
Images and Graphic Editing
Introduction to graphic editing
Paint.net tutorial: Making a website header (11:35)
Gimp tutorial: Making a website header (27:43)
Pixlr tutorial: Making a website header (10:01)
Camtasia tutorial (13:03)
Advanced Content Creation
WordPress user menu (0:32)
Paragraphs vs. line-breaks (1:02)
Pasting text in from Microsoft Word (1:02)
Windows Live Writer (6:58)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) (2:23)
TinyMCE Advanced Visual Editor: Tables and Anchor links (8:51)
Embedding a private video (4:38)
Embedding audio (3:26)
Download and copy audio and video from other websites (1:25)
Importing content from WordPress.com or other blogs (1:01)
Migrating HTML websites to WordPress
Hiding a website under construction (0:50)
Copying WordPress websites using WP Clone (2:42)
Local server hosting
HTML Introduction
HTML Cheat sheet: most important HTML tags (0:35)
HTML Cheat sheet: Image tags (1:56)
Learn HTML from W3 Schools (0:53)
CSS Introduction: Learn CSS in 30 min.
Applying CSS styling to your pages: 3 ways (2:13)
CSS Class and CSS Id (1:29)
CSS Selectors and nesting (0:46)
Inline CSS vs. Stylesheet CSS (5:48)
CSS box model: margin, border, padding (3:24)
CSS Cheat Sheet: common properties (1:45)
Using Firebug (HTML & CSS inspection tool) (2:44)
Modifying your theme’s CSS (2:09)
Using Firebug to copy a static HTML site to WordPress (2:57)
WordPress SEO
SEO key concepts: types of traffic, how Google ranks, and more (9:05)
Quick-and-dirty guide to WordPress SEO (2:16)
Using WordPress Tags to increase keyword density (1:30)
Installing Google Analytics on your site (2:32)
Understanding Google Analytics reports (5:12)
SEO Case Study: Introduction (3:36)
SEO Case Study: Google Places (2:01)
SEO Case Study: Research competitor titles and keywords (2:20)
SEO Case Study: Keyword research in Market Samurai (14:31)
SEO Case Study: Optimize Meta Tags with Yoast WordPress SEO plugin (8:56)
Shopping Carts and Payment Systems
Understanding the flow of money in online payments (5:04)
Choosing the right payment processor for your business (2:36)
WordPress shopping cart options overview (2:53)
Externally-hosted shopping cart solutiions (2:05)
Introduction to WordPress shopping carts (2:06)
How to add a PayPal payment button (2:15)
How to add a Paypal button to your site with a plugin (2:59)
How to add a payment button using 1ShoppingCart externally-hosted cart (2:40)
WordPress Membership Plugins Overview (3:51)
Wishlist Member: Setup page protection & Paypal integration (7:30)
Wishlist Member: Create paypal subscription button (4:12)
Wishlist Member: Managing users (2:15)
Newsletters, Auto-responders, RSS-to-email systems
Introduction to Newsletter Systems & Auto-responders (6:21)
Mailchimp initial setup & creating forms (7:08)
Mailchimp: Creating fancy html mails (3:27)
RSS-to-email systems: Introduction
How to use the free Feedburner service for your newsletter (3:56)
Feedburner: feeding only a single post category to your newsletter (1:31)
Online Video Production, Editing and Distribution
Introduction to Online Video Production, Editing and Distribution
Why you should use video on your site (2:01)
How to record and edit video with your webcam and Windows Movie Maker (3:09)
How to shoot video with a flipcam or other video camera (10:52)
How to record a screen capture sequence to video, or else a narrated Powerpoint (1:38)
Introduction to video editing: best video editing software
Sony Vegas: basic video editing (4:22)
Sony Vegas: adding titles (1:55)
Sony Vegas: noise removal with Audacity (6:38)
Sony Vegas: green-screening (5:13)
Distributing video: converting to mp4 format
How to distribute Youtube video (0:39)
How to distribute Video with Amazon Web Services (2:39)
How to distribute video via RTMP streaming and Cloudfront (1:53)
How to send a video link in an email (2:58)
WordPress Social Media Integration
Introduction to WordPress Social Media Integration
How to add Tweet, Facebook Like, Google Like, etc., to your pages or posts (1:43)
How to add "Follow-me" links to your site (7:09)
How to create a Facebook fan page (1:12)
How to add Facebook comments to your pages or posts (5:04)
How to create an iframe inside a Facebook fan page (4:23)
WordPress Backup, Performance and Security
WordPress Backup: Concepts (3:21)
Backup on-site using BackWPUp (3:16)
Backup off-site with BackWPUp (4:55)
On-demand backup and restore with WP Clone (2:56)
On-demand backup and restore with InfiniteWP (5:33)
Backup + Manual WordPress Install with FTP and PHPMyAdmin (9:41)
Restore with FTP and PHPMyAdmin (3:40)
WordPress Security Basics (5:51)
Scan site with Sucuri and WordFence (2:50)
Protect site with Better WP Security (1:34)
Measure your Site's Speed with Pingdom and Yslow (3:36)
Add page cache with W3 Total Cache (2:48)
Optimize database with WP Clean Up (1:14)
Add CloudFlare Proxy Server & CDN (8:00)
HTML Cheat sheet: Image tags
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