WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
A course by Anyssa FerreiraDesigner and Web Developer
A course by Anyssa Ferreira, Designer and Web Developer
Discover the entire process for easily publishing a custom web page
Building an intuitive and functional website that also represents your brand accurately is essential to connect with your target audience. Anyssa Ferreira is the ideal professional to guide you in your mission. With over ten years of experience as a web developer, an organizer for the WordPress community in Sao Paulo, and co-founder of the studio Haste, focused on the creation of interactive experiences in the digital space.
In this course, learn how to create a custom website on WordPress. With Anyssa’s guidance, develop each aspect of your website step by step, from the initial adjustments to launching your modern and professional website online.
What will you learn in this online course?
18 lessons & 18 downloads
Installing WordPress
6 minutes, 58 seconds
The admin panel
5 minutes, 7 seconds
Initial settings
12 minutes, 55 seconds
Creating a page
13 minutes, 20 seconds
Creating your first posts
10 minutes, 57 seconds
Searching for a theme
6 minutes, 53 seconds
What's included in this course?
Start by getting to know your teacher Anyssa Ferreira, learn about her professional career as a designer and web developer. See her main influences and discover what you’ll learn in the course.
Learn how to install and configure WordPress: go through the program’s interface, get familiar with the admin panel, and apply your first adjustments to start working on your project.
Anyssa shows you how to create a website from scratch by working in the content editor in WordPress. Learn how to modify the appearance of your pages and customize them in real time, depending on the design of your project.
Develop your homepage step by step, with a different design from the other pages. Create menus, widgets, and custom CSS. Discover how to add new functions to your website with plugins.
In the final unit, Anyssa explains what a domain is and how to find a host for your site. Learn how to import all your data from WordPress to the hosting service and publish your website.
Finally, get some advice on how to manage your website and learn about plugins to help transform your website into an online store.
Recommended software & tools for this course
What is this course's project?
Design and publish a professional website using WordPress.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
For all those who want to learn to develop a modern and functional website for personal use or for a business.
Requirements and materials
No previous experience with websites is required to take the course.
As for materials, you need a computer, the WordPress and Local WP software installed, and a free code editor (Atom or Visual Studio Code).
Reviews
- 2 months ago
Curso ótimo, porém desatualizado com a plataforma atual
- 3 months ago
No había finalizado el curso, en mucho tiempo. Pero pude crear mi propia web desde 0. Aún me queda bastante por aprender, pero pude salir de la duda de si seria capaz de crearla sin tener idea. Gracias*
- 4 months ago
A pesar de no haber terminado el curso aún, de entrada siento que el mismo ofrece el conocimiento necesario para acercarnos al conocimiento de Wordpress. La instructora da cuenta de un amplio bagaje de conocimiento lo cual genera confianza y ánimo para seguir adelante con las lecciones.
- 6 months ago
Es un curso profesional, sólido y completo.
- 6 months ago
Merci le contenu est très riche et les explications bien plus explicite
As co-founder of the studio Haste, she specializes in developing websites, systems, and plugins. She has collaborated on projects for major companies like Totvs, Companhia das Letras, Elo7, and Knewin. She also speaks at international conferences for web developers like WorldCamp Europe 2020.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Presentation
- Influences
- What will we do in the course?
- U2
The first steps in WordPress
- What is WordPress?
- Installing WordPress
- The admin panel
- Initial settings
- U3
The website creation process
- Creating a page
- Creating your first posts
- Searching for a theme
- Setting up your theme 1
- Setting up your theme 2
- Home page
- Custom menus, widgets and CSS
- Plugins
- U4
Publishing the site
- Hosting and domain
- Publishing your website on the web
- Final Tips
- FP
Final project
- WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
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FAQs
Yes, the course is designed for beginners and teaches everything from installation to creating and publishing WordPress sites, with no prior web development knowledge required.
There are no mandatory technical prerequisites. It’s recommended to have basic computer skills and access to a computer with internet to follow the lessons and complete practical exercises.
You’ll learn how to install WordPress, create and customize pages, posts, themes, plugins, and layouts, as well as configure and publish institutional sites, portfolios, and online stores, while exploring creativity and visual identity.
No programming skills are needed. The course uses WordPress’s graphical interface and block editor, making site creation easy without coding.
The course covers full methods for installing WordPress locally and on online hosting, using tools like LocalWP and explaining key settings for each step.
Yes, the course teaches how to find, install, activate, and customize themes and plugins to expand functionality and tailor the design to your needs.
Yes, you’ll learn how to migrate sites from a local environment to online servers, set up domains, DNS, and use plugins like All-in-One WP Migration to simplify the process.