Mastering WordPress Websites

Master WordPress Websites

Building A WordPress Website is intended to help the beginner and the expert build effective WordPress Websites. (Last Updated June 28, 2024, v25)

This class is 1) Beginner-friendly and easy to follow, but with a lot of great detailed and comprehensive tips for advanced users, and 2) Up-to-date; we update this Interactive Guide on a regular basis to keep up with the latest web and Internet design trends, 3) Step-by-step guide to get your first website up and running in around an hour,

The Chapters include Foundational Skills, things to do to prepare to build the site, how to install WordPress, what Settings to set, how to handle Users, what Plugins to install and why, what Pages, Posts, and Media do and how to create and manage them, appearance – Widgets & Menus, Security, Finishing touches, how to maintain your site, how to improve performance, how to understand and use analytics, Search Engine Optimization, and marketing. 

Master WordPress Websites – Learning Objectives

• Be able to build and manage WordPress websites.
• Learn the technology, marketing, business, design, legal, and communication skills needed to build, maintain, promote, and profit from your WordPress websites.
• For Beginners
• Gain a “basic” understanding of the business, marketing, technical, and graphic design skills needed to feel comfortable online.
• For Non-beginners
• Be able to find the information we need when we need it.
• Solve specific problems we face when building and maintaining WordPress Websites.
• Gain the knowledge to demonstrate Internet competencies to yourself or an employer.

In this class, we try to answer the question: How do we build the best WordPress Websites?  The Answer the class offers is a continually updated WordPress website “Standard” that represents the “Best Practice” in WordPress website building.

@lantis Collaborative Learning Participation Guidelines.

The goal of this class, and all other @lantis Classes, is to answer specific questions.

In this class, Improved Communication Improve Your Life, the question we are trying to answer is: How do we improve our lives?

This class works best if everyone takes what they know and what they learn in the class and share their ideas, thoughts, and creative suggestions with each other. This means practicing active listening and participating skills.

Your peers can provide a new perspective, valuable insights, and guidance for you as you work through your learning. And you can provide new perspectives, valuable insights, and guidance for others as they work through their learning.

However, please remember you MUST BE A @LANTIS LEARNING NETWORK MEMBER TO ADD CONTENT TO THIS CLASS.

We wish for as much diverse content as possible, but the content has to be vetted, and that starts with the vetting of the creator of the content.

The author and date of creation are the two foundational pieces of “meta-data” that start the @lantis Educational Blockchain.

Remember that all your content and your name are protected by the use of “Avatars” and “Tokens.”

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Click Here to learn more about how the @lantis Learning Network works.

@lantis Class Structure:

@lantis classes are unlike traditional classes.

@lantis classes are more like an “Open Source” Project.  WordPress, Linux, LibreOffice, or GNU Image Manipulation Program are examples of Open Source Projects, but there are many more.

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The goal of any @lantis class is to have the learners add learning back into the class.

This learning is added to the @lantis Network Library in form of structured “Learning Packets (LPs).”

The Class should represent the “Best Learning Packets (LPs)” to teach something. Those LPs should be dynamically updated as new information is processed.  The new information would either confirm the LP is, in fact, the “Best” LP or suggest a change to the LP.

If the information suggests a change, there should be a suggestion as to how the LP should change.

At any given time there should be a list of suggested changes to the LPs.  Those changes are discussed in the Class and voted on by the Class.  Any Class member can vote yes or no. Supermajorities are required to make the changes.

Non-members of the @lantis Learning Network (ALN) can take the class and learn from it, but have to be a member of the ALN to add or change a class LP. The reason for this is simple, the more we know about the source of the LP the better we can value the learning.

Only ALN members can add Learning Packets to the ALN Library because only they have a “vetted” profile. A “vetted” profile is required to optimally value the LP.

The ALN profile is an “Avatar” to others on the network.  Every member’s personal information is completely separate from the information in the library.

Ways to Add Value to the Network

• Agreement/disagreement with the LP – Meta-Data
• Create New Learning – Create a “Base Learning Packet.”
• Create a “Fork Learning Packet” – Add additional Content or change existing content in a LP.
• Add, Change, Delete LP Meta-Data  – Increase the “transparency” of

The goal of @lantis Network Members is not to simply to be taught an answer.

The goal is to learn how to apply what we’ve learned in realistic situations in a competent, considered manner as a means of reaching reasonable and supportable conclusions and then teach others what we’ve learned so they can learn even more.  Then, they can teach the new stuff they’ve learn back into the Network.

Once the Network reaches “critical mass” the learning should be exponential.

The goal of the @lantis Network is to help the Community thrive in our 21st Century Hyper-connected Digital world by helping each of us to learn how to thrive in our 21st Century Hyper-connected Digital world.