WordPress.com Essential Training

Establish a web presence quickly and easily with WordPress.com, without having to download any software or set up web hosting.This course shows how to establish a web presence quickly and easily with WordPress.com, without having to download any software or set up web hosting. Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows how to sign up for an account, personalize your profile, and start posting content right away. The course also includes tutorials on everything from adding images, video, formatting, and links that make blog posts pop to installing plugins, creating custom themes, and attracting readers with social sharing, and more. Topics include: Setting up an account Editing your profile Publishing posts and pages Utilizing page templates Inserting images, video, and other media Working with themes Understanding widgets Working with the Twenty Twelve theme Integrating social sharing Deciding whether to move to a self-hosting solution