Enhanced WordPress Strategies For Business

Udemy

Description

Have you ever tried to build or enhance a website to grow your business? Have you spent lots of time learning WordPress, how to work with plug-ins, and how to tweak your website to boost traffic and sales, only to have it produce lackluster results? Have web designers quoted you a price tag of several thousand dollars just to build it for you?

With this Wordpress Tips and Tricks course you can learn How to Increase Website Traffic, which tips, tweaks, and tools you can use, without complicated programming, to boost your WordPress website and transform it into a traffic magnet -- in less time, with less money, and with a lot less effort.

Which plug-ins create the best results
How to tweak your plug-ins to maximize your site's selling power
How to work with themes and templates to optimize your site's attraction potential
And how to avoid common errors committed by WordPress designers.

This Wordpress Tips and Tricks course will take you through top essential and nice-to-have plug-ins, including admin, SEO, security, layout, usability, social, and even multimedia plug-ins. It will also dive into how to work with themes and templates, and how to tweak them a lot more efficiently.

Also, this course will show you how to tweak the look-and-feel of your website using styles, graphics, and design "tricks." It will reveal some shortcuts using copy-and-paste-simple snippets of code, as well as a number of quick-and-dirty online tools and resources -- many of which are free.

This course is for:

Do-it-yourselfers who know the basics of WordPress and want to know how to take it to the next level.
Hired webmasters or web designers who want to improve their skills to bring much greater value to their clients.
Web site owners who don't know the technical stuff but want to be sure their web people make the right decisions.

This course is not for:

Uber-Geeks who are looking for advanced coding skills. (You can certainly learn a lot from this course, but you may get bored.)
Complete newbie who don't have any knowledge of WordPress. (You would get more out of this course if you first took a WordPress Basics course, then came back to upgrade your education.)

This course is meant for people who don't want to get involved with heavy programming, but want to learn How to Increase Website Traffic, tweak their WordPress websites and discover powerful shortcuts to enhance their online business or blog.

This Wordpress Tips and Tricks course by developer Michel Fortin will give you a new perspective on how to optimize and ramp up your website for maximum traffic, stickiness, and conversion.

Who is the target audience?

Webmasters who want to learn enhanced WordPress strategies for business websites, so they can charge more for their skills.
Employees responsible for their company's sites, who know the basics of WordPress and want to know how to take it to the next level.
Hired webmasters or web designers who want to improve their skills to bring much greater value to their clients.
Entrepreneurs or small business owners who want their site to get the best possible results, and want to avoid common pitfalls.
Website owners who don't know the technical stuff but want to be sure their web people make the right decisions.

Requirements

Must already have a basic understanding of WordPress, such as how to install it and then how to install plugins and themes.

What Will I Learn?

Students will walk away with a better understanding of WordPress strategies and inside tips they can apply immediately to improve the results from their business website.
These strategies can be applied to corporate websites, ecommerce sites, blogs, content sites, or sales pages - as long as they are built on WordPress.

Curriculum For This Course Expand All Collapse All 147 Lectures 10:57:41 + – Introduction to FortinPress 5 Lectures 07:41

Welcome and Introduction to the FortinPress course about WordPress

Welcome And Introduction Preview 02:08

In this video, you will learn what the FortinPress course covers, and gain a better understanding of its contents

What FortinPress Covers Preview 03:01

In this video, we discuss who this course is intended for, and who will benefit most from taking the classes.

Who This Course is For... Preview 00:36

In this video, you are introduced to Michel Fortin, the instructor of FortinPress

About The Instructor Preview 01:56 How To Get Support And Ask Questions Preview 1 page + – Bonuses and Resources 8 Lectures 01:03:12 How To Download Class Working Files Preview 1 page

This zipped file contains an Excel spreadsheet with all the links and resources mentioned in this class. You will need a program like WinZip or 7Zip to unzip the .zip file, then a program like Microsoft Excel to open the .xls file contained within the zipped file.

Resources From Class 1 4.9 kB

Resources From Class 2 6.9 kB

Resources From Class 3 6.1 kB

Resources From Class 4 8.2 kB

Resources From Class 5 4.6 kB

Resources From Class 6 5.2 kB

As a member of a private Platinum Coaching Group , each week a member delivers a class to other members. Recently, I delivered a "closed-door" session to members only, where I talked about some of the new features in WordPress. As a free bonus for FortinPress students, here is the exclusive recording to this private class.

Bonus class for FortinPress students 01:03:12 + – Class 1: WordPress Best Practices 15 Lectures 01:25:18

In this video, we introduce the course and provide an overview of what to expect in the coming classes.

Introduction and Overview Preview 14:03

In this video, we reveal where and how you can download the class resources and free bonuses available.

Free Bonuses and Class Resources Preview 12:12

In this video, we demonstrate some of the core "best practices" all developers should know when working with Wordpress

Quick Tips and Tools Preview 02:41

In this video, we demonstrate the importance of using a development server on your local computer, instead of developing your WordPress site live.

Using a Local Development Server Preview 04:15

In this video, we discuss the importance of using a child theme when customizing your theme's styles

Working With a Child Theme Preview 06:41 About Our Recommended WordPress Plugins Preview 03:25 Plugins: WordPress Reset 01:25 Plugins: WP Example Content 01:49 Plugins: Use Google Libraries 01:57 Plugins: Shortcodes Ultimate 17:21 Class 1 Q&A Session Introduction 00:27 Q&A: How To Add an Optin Box in the Sidebar 02:41 Q&A: How to Manage Your Bookmarks 06:24 Q&A: How to Convince Clients to Switch to WordPress 04:18 Q&A: Can a PHP Site be Functional Inside Wordpress? 05:39 + – Class 2: Essential Administrative Plugins 37 Lectures 01:32:28 Introduction to Class 2 Preview 01:55 Plugins: Add Quicktag 11:28 Plugins: Admin Management Xtended 01:58 Plugins: Broken Link Checker 01:44 Plugins: Clean Options 02:15 Plugins: Duplicator 02:04 Plugins: Exec-PHP 00:55 Plugins: Google Analytics for WordPress 00:47 Plugins: Grab & Save 03:15 Plugins: Portable phpMyAdmin 01:12 Plugins: Plugins Garbage Collector 00:29 Plugins: Search & Replace and Search Regex 04:42 Plugins: Simple Tags 06:57 Plugins: WP-DbManager 00:58 Plugins: WP Optimize 01:13 Plugins: WP CleanFix 00:38 Plugins: WP Show IDs 00:52 Plugins: WP Status Dashboard 02:47 Introduction to Security Plugins 00:43 Plugins: Absolute Privacy 01:22 Plugins: Akismet 00:36 Plugins: Anti Feed-Scraper Message 01:52 Plugins: Secure WordPress 00:45 Plugins: ServerBuddy 02:04 Plugins: SI Captcha Anti-spam 01:13 Plugins: Stop Spammer Registrations 00:30 Plugins: User Spam Remover 00:29 Plugins: Wordpress Firewall 01:23 Plugins: WP Ban 00:25 About CloudFlare 11:40