WordPress Essential Training – fully updated course on lynda.com

Hot on the heels of the Start with a Theme: Twenty Fourteen course comes the release of the second course I recorded over the Christmas holiday: The full update of WordPress Essential Training for version 3.8.

My first ever course with lynda.com was WordPress Essential Training back in 2010, and this new edition is the third remake of the course. The new course highlights new features in WordPress 3.8 and provides an updated approach to learning and mastering WordPress. If you want to learn how to use WordPress to its fullest, WordPress Essential Training is the place to start.

From the website:

“WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites. Learn how to create your own with this powerful publishing platform. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen will help you get the most out of the self-hosted version of WordPress and create feature-rich blogs and websites. Morten explains how to create and publish posts and pages; customize your site with themes, widgets, and custom menus; and extend WordPress even further with plugins. What’s more, Morten will show how to get more readers with social media sharing and comments, and adjust the settings that keep your site safe and secure.”

Topics covered include:

• What is WordPress?
• Installing and running WordPress
• Publishing posts and pages
• Using page templates
• Inserting images, video, and other media
• Editing posts
• Changing themes
• Installing plugins
• Adding other users
• Securing your WordPress site

Whether you’re new to WordPress or just want a refresher or  you want to get a clear picture of the changes found in version 3.8 you will find what you are looking for in this course. So go check out WordPress Essential Training and get your WordPress site started for the new year!

If you don’t already have a lynda.com subscription you can get a 7 day free trial by following this link: lynda.com/trial/mor10