Chris OConnor - Wordpress For All : How To Create A Website For Business Or Personal Use, Quickly & Easily - Whatever Your Skill Level

WORDPRESS FOR ALL

How To Create A Website For Business Or Personal Use, Quickly & Easily - Whatever Your Skill Level

By Chris OConnor

2013 Chris OConnor

Who Is This Book For?

This is a book for everyone who wants to set up a Wordpress website and is unsure of where to start, or how to get Wordpress to do what you want. No prior knowledge of Wordpress is necessary. With this book anyone can get a Wordpress based website up and running quickly.

If you are looking for a book to teach you how to hand code a theme, or write your own Wordpress plugin, then this definitely isnt the book for you. My aim when writing this book was to enable anyone to be able to create their own business or personal website in Wordpress, starting from scratch, with no previous experience, and to be able to do so without getting their hands dirty dealing with programming code. And Im confident that I have achieved that goal.

But dont make the mistake of thinking that this is some sort of dumbed down guide on how to install Wordpress. This book goes way beyond that.

Is This Book Up To Date?

One of the benefits of publishing on the Kindle is that it gives the author the ability to update his book, if he wants to. The updated book can then be downloaded by anyone who has bought it. But the problem is a lot of authors just dont bother! They write the book and move on. To me, that seems crazy. Annoying a customer by providing them with out of date information just doesnt make good business sense! And that is why I will be updating this book every time Wordpress release a new version that affects any of the instructions I give in this book. As a purchaser of this book it will be there for you to download, at no cost to you.

At the time of writing this Wordpress has just launched version 3.6, and this book has already been updated to include the changes in version 3.6. So is this book up to date? The answer is most definitely yes, and it will continue to be kept up to date with timely, accurate, and relevant changes whenever Wordpress release a new version that affects the content of this book.

What This Book Covers

I think it is important to make it clear right at the beginning as to what we are going to cover in this book, as well as what isn't covered. Wordpress can be used for many things. There are thousands of plugins to extend its functionality, and thousands of themes to change its appearance. Obviously, this book (or any book for that matter) can't possibly cover all of that!

If youve got this far in the book then you will probably have already flicked through the Table of Contents and seen what this book has to offer. Depending on how much knowledge of Wordpress you already have, the Table of Contents may indicate that this book contains everything you are looking for, or it may mean absolutely nothing to you. So let me give you a brief summary of what you are going to learn, and what you will be able to do at the end of this book.

You are going to discover why, when it comes to building a website, that out of all of the options available to you, Wordpress is easily the best choice.

You will be able to go from having an idea for a website, being able to assess its potential for success, through to planning and building a website which has good on-page SEO.

Wordpress may have started life as a blogging platform, but today it is a fully fledged content management system capable of powering all sorts of different sites. A lot of Wordpress books just cover building blogging style sites, but in this book youre going to find out how to use Wordpress, not just for blogging, but for doing things such as building your own ecommerce store to sell physical or digital products, membership sites, and even creating different types of affiliate site to make money promoting other peoples products.

The examples in this book will take you through the planning and construction of a website for a stamp collection. One of the best ways to learn is by both reading AND doing. Dont worry. I dont expect you to go and buy a domain name for a stamp collection and build your own stamp collection website! But it would help you if you went through my examples, adapted them to the site you want to build, and did what I am doing on your own website. Just substitute the categories Im using with your own, my content with your own content, the names I use with your own names well, Im sure you get the idea! Do this, and by the end of the book you will be well on your way to having your site up and running.

Throughout the book I make various recommendations for things such as web hosting, where to get domain names, the best Wordpress themes, plugins, and services. These are based on my many years of building websites, and the fact that I have been using Wordpress from shortly after it first was launched. The things I have recommended are things that I am using myself and I believe will make your life a lot easier. They arent mandatory though, and if you already have hosting, a domain name, plugins, or a theme that you prefer, then go with those. Just follow my examples and find the equivalent feature in whatever you are using.

Which Wordpress?

Wordpress means different things to different people. Some people think of Wordpress.com, and others immediately think of Wordpress.org. Ill discuss the similarities and differences between the two and why Wordpress.org is the right platform for you.

But what about Wordpress Multi-Site? Wordpress can also be used to create a network of Wordpress sites from a single installation. Other books avoid discussing this, maybe because the authors dont understand it themselves. Ill show you, step by step, how to set Wordpress up in multi-site mode. If you can copy and paste then you can do this! Only a few people will need this feature, but if youre one of them, youll learn how to do it here.

No Limits

A book that shows you how to set up Wordpress and how to create pages and posts is great, if all you want to do is blog, or have a very simple site. But what if you want to create an ecommerce store to sell physical or digital products, or create a membership site where you can charge people each month, or create a sales page, a squeeze page, or create a Wordpress site to make money through affiliate marketing? I wont leave you high and dry, stuck with just being able to do the basics. Ill make you aware of what you need to consider for each of these different types of website, and what you need to build each of them.

SEO

As someone who has been doing SEO since the 90s, on my own sites, and client sites, I know that SEO isnt something to be bolted onto a website after it has been built. It is something that should be an integral part of the design and build process. Its something that should be thought about before you even buy your domain name. Throughout this book I will cover the small but necessary things that you should be considering at each step if you want to make your site a success.

I also cover in some detail the installation and setup of an SEO plugin in Wordpress, detailing what you need to change and why. A lot of so-called Wordpress experts are still advising people to use SEO plugins that were good in their day, but past their best now. The SEO plugin you will discover in this book is powerful, incredibly effective, and its free.

How Much Technical Knowledge Do You Need To Do This?

I can say with confidence that if you were able to get your hands on this book and install it on your Kindle then you already have all the technical skills you need. Sure, there are technical steps involved, but they aren't difficult. You just need to follow along with what I show you. It's as simple as that! If you can follow simple step by step directions then you can easily create your own Wordpress website.