Planning Your WordPress Site

Proper website planning is regarded by many online experts to be the most important aspect in building a successful business online. Taking time to carefully plan your website in the early stages of your business development process helps to prevent costly errors later and also help create a better end product.

Once you understand the benefits of using WordPress and why millions of businesses around the world are using WordPress to drive their web presence, the next step is to begin planning your own website or blog. Website planning must come before WordPress installation. The tutorials in this section will help you understand how to plan your website.

Click on the tutorials below to learn how to plan your new website for success:

The Small Business Digital Manager – How To Get Better Results Online

Small business owners need someone who will step into their business, get things done, and deliver results ... like a Small Business Digital Manager! ...
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Want A Website You Can Manage Yourself? Read This First!

If you want a website that you can manage by yourself, here is what you need to know before getting your website built ...
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Does Your Website Run On WordPress? How To Tell

Does your website run on WordPress? Here are some tell-tale signs that a website was built with WordPress ...
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Can WordPress Fix Poor Web Design?

This tutorial explains some of the issues and problems caused by having a poorly-designed website and how WordPress can help fix poor web design ...
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The WordPress Digital Business Blueprint That Saves You Money

Learn how to save money on web development costs with our proven WordPress digital business blueprint! ...
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Website Planning Process – Part 1

Learn what to do before getting a business website or blog built and includes a printable/downloadable version of the Website Planning Process chart.  ...
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Website Planning Process – Part 2

This is part 2 of our 3-part tutorial series on planning your website or blog. This tutorial covers doing preliminary research for cost-effective website development. ...
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Website Planning Process – Part 3

This is part 3 of our tutorial series on website planning. This tutorial focuses on planning a sustainable content marketing strategy for promoting your business online using your WordPress website or blog ...
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Domain Names: A Primer For Beginners

Learn more about domain names in this primer for beginners ...
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How To Add Legal Pages To Your WordPress Site

Learn how to make your WordPress site or blog legally compliant and how to shortcut the process using legal page creation plugins ...
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Grow Your Business Faster With WordPress

Did you know that WordPress can help your business grow faster online? This article explains how and provides a brief overview of the process ...
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WordPress Traffic Automation Blueprint – Part 1 (Overview)

This is part 1 of a 5-part series of tutorials that show you how to automatically increase web traffic using WordPress and proven web marketing methods ...
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WordPress Tutorials Free Chrome Extension

Install WPCompendium's WordPress Tutorials extension for Google Chrome browsers and access our FREE WordPress tutorials with one-click! ...
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The 7 Most Important Questions You Should Ask A Website Developer About Your Small Business Website

Want a website that will deliver you the results you need? Here are the 7 questions you should ask a website developer about your small business website ...
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How To Research Keywords For SEO Content

Learn how to do effective keyword research and improve your content SEO in this step-by-step tutorial ...
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WordPress 101: How To Use WordPress

Learn how to unlock the power of the WordPress content management system (CMS) using the many powerful features inside your WordPress administration area.

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WordPress SEO

In this WordPress SEO training series you will learn how to optimize your WordPress site and how to craft website pages and blog posts that will help you get better search engine rankings and improve your traffic results.

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How To Set Up A Forum On WordPress

Adding a forum to your digital presence can be a powerful way to engage your visitors, prospects, customers, members, or affiliates. This video series takes you step-by-step through the process of setting up a forum using WordPress with examples of how different forums can be set up.

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How To Install, Set Up & Use WordPress Multisite

Learn how to quickly and securely set up an online community of websites or blogs using the powerful WordPress Multisite feature.

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QR Code Marketing

Learn about the benefits of using QR codes in your mobile marketing and useful QR code marketing tactics you can implement to better promote your business.

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How To Build An e-Commerce Store With WordPress

Learn how to set up an e-commerce store on your WordPress site using e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads.

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How To Create Engaging Presentations

Learn how to create beautiful and engaging presentations that will help you sell more products and services online.

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How To Set Up WordPress On Localhost

Localhosting allows you to test new features and customizations on a WordPress site and make sure everything is working okay before taking your site live or making changes or tweaks to an existing live site. In this video course, you will learn how to install, set up, and locally host a fully functioning WordPress site on your computer. You will also learn how to move your localhosted site to your live host and vice versa.

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How To Build A WordPress Site ... Fast!

Need a new website or blog in a hurry? This video course shows you how to quickly install and configure a WordPress website or blog on your own domain name and be up and running in no time!

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Why Your Business Needs WordPress

Learn why your business needs WordPress and discover the unique features, benefits, and advantages of using WordPress to start or grow your business online.

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How To Add A WordPress Site To Facebook

Learn how to import a WordPress site to Facebook and how to obtain and set up a free SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate for your WordPress site, how to change your site protocol from “http” to “https” (secure site) and how to set up a Facebook app with this video course.

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How To Back Up And Restore WordPress Sites

Learn how to safely and automatically backup your WordPress files and database and how to easily restore your WordPress site if something were to happen.

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How To Use Softaculous

Learn how to install WordPress on your domain using Softaculous.

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How To Design, Develop & Sell WordPress Themes

Learn how to develop and sell your own WordPress Themes. This video training course provides an overview of the process of designing, developing, and selling WordPress themes.

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Using Layers WP

Learn how to use Layers WP, a powerful, flexible and user-friendly WordPress theme that lets you build professional and stunning websites easily using point-and-click.

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How To Use S2Member Membership Plugin

Learn how to set up and configure a WordPress membership site using the S2 Member free WordPress membership plugin.

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WordPress Security

Learn how to keep your WordPress site or blog secure and protected from malware, hackers and brute-force attacks.

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How To Optimize WordPress

Learn how to optimize your WordPress site and improve your page loading speed.

Sell Online With PayPal

Learn how to set up PayPal on your website to receive payments online, with additional tips on using PayPal payment tools.

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Using Password Managers

Password Managers provide an easy and secure way to keep track of all your passwords. This video course shows you how to use two FREE powerful password management tools.

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How To Use Google Tools

Learn how to use Google Tools like Google Analytics & Gmail in this video course.

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Keyword Research

Learn how to do keyword research using tools like Google’s Keyword Planner.

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How To Use CSS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) allows you to control how web pages and page elements display on your screen. This video course shows you how to use CSS.

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How To Use Aweber

Learn how to use Aweber to set up autoresponders, newsletters and opt-in subscriber forms that can be integrated with WordPress for lead generation, user engagement, customer training, and more!

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How To Use cPanel

This comprehensive video course shows you how to use cPanel to manage various aspects of your WordPress hosting.

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How To Use Amazon S3

Learn how to set up and use Amazon S3 to upload, store, manage, and protect your site’s images, large media files, downloadable files, stream videos and more!

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How To Use FTP

Learn how to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to upload and transfer files between your computer and your server.

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