Using WordPress to Build a Website

In this course you will learn how to;

• Create and manage a test server
• Install the WordPress software
• Change it’s function from a blog to a website
• Configure a WordPress site
• Add pages and content
• Add dynamic content via widgets
• Install themes to enhance the look of your website
• Create a custom contact form

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We will demonstrate how to create and manage a test server to install and configure a WordPress site on a local PC. For the purposes of this course all the demonstrations will be carried out on this test server, although the lessons could be completed on a fully functioning web server.

In the next lesson we will download and install the XAMPP software. This will be used to create a test web server on which we will host our WordPress test site.