WordPress Basics

This book guides you through the process of installing and configuring a WordPress site. You'll be introduced to the Dashboard, the central management environment. From there, you'll go deeper into creating content with Posts and Pages. In addition, you'll learn how to create navigation and social menus and how to install and customize themes.

You will also explore how to extend your site with additional functionality using practical Plugins, how to optimize the site for search engines, how to integrate an SSL certificate (indicated by a lock icon in the address bar) and how to secure your website with backups.

For completeness, you will also learn how to create a Privacy Statement for your website and ask visitors' permission to place cookies.

In this book, you will learn about:

- Installing WordPress on your own computer
- Basic configuration
- Creating posts and pages
- Setting up navigation menus
- Exploring classic and block themes
- Using plugins to extend functionality
- Enhancing security and creating backups
- Migrating a WordPress site to the internet
- Managing privacy and cookies
- Implementing search engine optimization techniques
- Securing your website with SSL

For MacOS and Windows users.

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