WordPress Masterbook 2017: Make a Website From Scratch - For Total Beginners

This book is aimed at WordPress beginners, not professional website developers, and covers all the basics that you need to know when creating your first WordPress website, whether you want to use WordPress for blogging, a standard brochure-style website, or e-commerce.

N.B. This covers the 'main' type of WordPress, and NOT Wordpress.com.

Topics covered include;
- Creating Pages
- Adding a Theme
- Creating a Menu, Adding Pages to a Menu, Dropdown Menus
- Posting (for blogging) including Categories
- Uploading Images
- Basic SEO to help your site rank better
- Recommended plugins (e.g. for your SEO, to implement Google Analytics)
- Users
- Basic Security Plugins
- Backup
- E-commerce (with the free WooCommerce plugin)
- Sourcing free, and cheap stock images

Please note: The free theme, Virtue, has a special section in this book, but the book is neither theme-specific nor plugin-specific, and is not created by a theme or plugin provider to increase sales! Included are recommended themes for various purposes (for example, blogging, e-commerce). Free plugins for various purposes are also recommended and covers.

On purchase of this book, you are invited to join the Facebook Group 'WordPress Masterbook' for further support and knowledge-sharing.

Dorcas R amonn is a lecturer of Digital Technology and Design and 'Digital Marketing' in the University College Dublin Smurfit School, as well as a trainer and consultant with Talentpool, founder of Zonua. Along with WordPress-related courses, Dorcas teaches in image and video editing, SEO and Digital Marketing.

To contact Dorcas quickly, look for @zonua on Twitter. Suggestions on improvements to future editions of this book are most welcome.