Lynda.com WordPress Essential Training [2012, ENG]

WordPress Essential Training shows how to get the most out of the self-hosted version of WordPress and create feature-rich blogs and web sites.

Author Morten Rand-Hendriksen explains how to get a web host, set up a domain, and download, configure, and upload WordPress to your newly hosted site. The course then dives fully into the tools in WordPress, demonstrating how to set up your profile and create content to share with your web audience. The course also includes tutorials on everything from adding images, video, formatting, and links that make posts pop, to installing plug-ins, creating custom themes, and attracting readers with permalinks, social sharing, and more.
Note: This course is also useful for migrating a blog from WordPress. com to a self-hosting solution.
Topics include:
* Building and modifying a profile
* Publishing posts and pages
* Utilizing page templates
* Inserting images, video, and other media
* Working with themes
* Understanding widgets
* Creating child themes
* Working with the Twenty Eleven theme
* Setting up a site for search engine optimization (SEO)
* Ensuring site security