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Customizing WordPress Websites

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Not satisfied with the look and feel of your WordPress website? Can't find just the right WordPress theme? In this video training series, Craig Campbell will guide you through customizing your WordPress site in order to truly make it your own. This series requires a basic understanding of HTML and CSS.

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  • 01 – Introduction (Running Time: 3:35)

    02 – Finding a Theme (Running Time: 11:04)
    In this video, Craig explains what to look for in a WordPress theme that you plan on customizing. He also shows you how to search for themes using the WordPress theme directory.

    03 – Installing a Theme (Running Time: 12:27)
    After finding an appropriate theme, Craig explains why he chose the selected theme and demonstrates how to install it.

    04 – WordPress Automatic Upgrade (Running Time: 7:42)
    When there is an upgrade available for WordPress, it can be a huge hassle to try to upgrade manually. Luckily for us, there is a plugin that allows us to upgrade automatically in just a few simple steps.

    05 – Creating a Contact Form (Running Time: 9:30)
    In this lesson, Craig demonstrates how to easily create a contact form for your WordPress website using a handy plugin.

    06 – Easy SEO Plugin (Running Time: 10:29)
    In this video, Craig demonstrates the use of a plugin called the “All in One SEO Pack,” which is used to optimize your WordPress site for search engines.

    07 – Avoiding Comment Spam (Running Time: 15:20)
    In this video, Craig will show you a plugin that will help you to eliminate any spam that might be showing up in your comments.

    08 – Displaying Recent Posts (Running Time: 12:22)
    In this lesson, Craig demonstrates another plugin that allows you to display a list of your most recent posts.

    09 – Setting Up a Home Page (Running Time: 10:50)
    By default, a WordPress website’s home page simply displays the 10 most recent posts. In this video, Craig demonstrates how to create a new home page that simply includes links to these posts.

    10 – Using PHP in Your Posts (Running Time: 8:13)
    With the default installation of WordPress, there is no way to add PHP to a specific post or page. In this video, Craig introduces you to another plugin that allows you to do this.

    11 – Separating Categories (Running Time: 16:31)
    Sometimes, you may want a certain category of posts to show up on a page all by itself. In this video, Craig demonstrates how to set this up.

    12 – Swapping Out Images (Running Time: 15:36)
    In this video, Craig will demonstrate how to swap out the background images in your chosen theme. In this particular theme, the background images in question include the website’s header and menu bar.

    13 – Fixing Images (Running Time: 14:45)
    In this lesson, Craig edits the images for the search form background and the RSS feed icon so that they blend in with our new color scheme.

    14 – More Image Editing (Running Time: 3:07)
    The background image for the sidebar of our selected theme is put together a little bit differently than the background images we’ve looked at so far. In this video, Craig will explain how this particular image can be edited.

    15 – Adding a Logo (Running Time: 13:04)
    In this lesson, Craig will show you how to remove the title text that shows up by default in the header of your WordPress site and replace it with a graphic logo.

    16 – Changing the Background (Running Time: 3:33)
    In this video, Craig swaps out the tiled background image of the selected theme.

    17 – The Web Developer Toolbar (Running Time: 10:31)
    The Firefox web browser has some handy plugins available that allow us to examine the structure and the CSS of a web page in order to understand how it’s put together. This can be a very handy tool when trying to customize your WordPress theme’s style sheets.

    18 – Changing Font Properties (Running Time: 15:07)
    When customizing your themes, one of the first things to go is usually the font scheme. In this video, Craig will show you how to alter your theme’s CSS in order to customize the look of your text.

    19 – Changing Widths (Running Time: 17:32)
    In this video, Craig digs in deeper to the selected theme’s CSS files in order to alter the width of the site’s columns.

    20 – Conclusion (Running Time: 2:52)

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