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Staff Websites (Divi Included)

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Technology, Website Hosting, WordPress, YWAM

About Course

When you sign up for this course, we will create our website for you after you complete the first lesson and quiz. You can contact me, the instructor at tony@ai.net.nz. Or call me on +1-808-498-7146

Course Curriculum

Why do you want a Website?
Before we install WordPress for you, let consider why you want a website.

Why a Website?
Why do you want a Website?
We will now build your website.
Straight to Divi

Installing WordPress

Installing Security Plugins
https://youtu.be/2j2CRuUWhSM

Installing Useful Plugins
The following are a number of useful plugins we install to simplify managing your website. However, we do not recommend that you install any old plugin. Not all plugins are created equal, and some of them may even break your site.

Twenty Seventeen
We are using the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Keep your site up to date.
Hackers abount. and they are always looking for sites that can take over, so we want to make sure that your site is always up to date.

Pages
We are going to very quickly make five pages. This will be to give some content to your site so we can build the menus in a few lessons.

Posts
We are going to very quickly make a few posts. This will be to give some content to your site so we can build the menus in a few lessons.

Fonts
Fonts needed to be applied at the Appearance level. You want to change fonts with care so as not to make your Website look like a 5 year-olds thank you letter.

Menu
The Theme we are using has a Top Menu; now that we have some pages and posts, we can create this menu.

Divi
Divi is a Theme and a Template builder. It is extensive and rewarding to use.

Content
We have come a long way, now we want to make the site hum.

Pictures and Images
Images in WordPress need to be formatted so you do not bloat your page, or slow your website down.

SEO & Google
Learn how to improve your Search Engine Optimation and get connected with Google Business & Maps, Analytics and Webmaster Tools.

Updating an Existing Site to Divi
One thing I am asked to help with is to take an existing site and refresher it with Divi. These Lessons will help you take your site and upgrade it. Or if your site is already using Divi, these lessons will teach you Divi

Divi Tips
Divi is very power, and while it is primarily Drag & Drop, there are a number of extra settings that can be set at the CSS level.

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Material Includes

N Hosted Website.
N Questions and Answers.

Requirements

N You must be an active Staff of a YWAM location.

Course Tags

Divi WordPress

Target Audience

N YWAM Staff
N YWAM Ministry
N YWAM School
N YWM Campus

Staff Websites (Divi Included)

About Course

Course Curriculum

Why do you want a Website? Before we install WordPress for you, let consider why you want a website.

Why a Website?

Why do you want a Website?

We will now build your website.

Straight to Divi

Installing WordPress

Point to my Server

WordPress Installed

Installing Security Plugins https://youtu.be/2j2CRuUWhSM

WPS Hide Login

Real Simple SSL

Wordfence

Limit Login Attempts Reloaded

Installing Useful Plugins The following are a number of useful plugins we install to simplify managing your website. However, we do not recommend that you install any old plugin. Not all plugins are created equal, and some of them may even break your site.

Yoast Duplicate Post

Yoast SEO

Twenty Seventeen We are using the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Activate Theme

Jump to Divi

Keep your site up to date. Hackers abount. and they are always looking for sites that can take over, so we want to make sure that your site is always up to date.

Updates

Pages We are going to very quickly make five pages. This will be to give some content to your site so we can build the menus in a few lessons.

Making Pages

First set of Pages.

Posts We are going to very quickly make a few posts. This will be to give some content to your site so we can build the menus in a few lessons.

Categories

Two Posts

Fonts Fonts needed to be applied at the Appearance level. You want to change fonts with care so as not to make your Website look like a 5 year-olds thank you letter.

Easy Google Fonts

Draft Lesson

Menu The Theme we are using has a Top Menu; now that we have some pages and posts, we can create this menu.

Main Menu

Divi Divi is a Theme and a Template builder. It is extensive and rewarding to use.

Setting Up Divi

Assumptions

Divi Header/Menu

Refining the Header

Contact Form

Content We have come a long way, now we want to make the site hum.

Appearance

Widget Footer

Pictures and Images Images in WordPress need to be formatted so you do not bloat your page, or slow your website down.

Install GIMP

Images on Pages with Gutenberg

Images on Pages with Divi

SEO & Google Learn how to improve your Search Engine Optimation and get connected with Google Business & Maps, Analytics and Webmaster Tools.

Yoast SEO

Google Search Engine

Google Business & Maps

Google Analytics

Facebook

Instagram

Updating an Existing Site to Divi One thing I am asked to help with is to take an existing site and refresher it with Divi. These Lessons will help you take your site and upgrade it. Or if your site is already using Divi, these lessons will teach you Divi

What is Divi

Divi Layouts

Backup First

Update WordPress and Plugins.

We install Divi for you.

Themes and Divi on an Existing Site.

Menu Header

Swapping out the Divi Contact for Google Forms.

Divi Tips Divi is very power, and while it is primarily Drag & Drop, there are a number of extra settings that can be set at the CSS level.

Menus