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Understanding what's WordPress once and for all
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Getting your hands on WordPress
Making sense of basic internet terminology: hosting, servers, database, and the like -
WordPress content types: what are they and their differences
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How WordPress's admin dashboard is structured
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Making the right call: when to use a custom post type
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Posts, Pages, and Themes: making a sense out of it
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How to create content on WordPressThe most basic concept: appearance vs function (shared)
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Making the right call: when to use a page or a dynamic template
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A quick view on additional terms: glossary for beginners
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Editing your content on WordPress: editors
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Browsing through plugins and add-ons: the WordPress's ecosystem
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The most common types of rework people face for bad decisions
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How to develop an efficient websiteSite performance: making your pages faster to load (how to avoid creating performance issues early on)
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Making the right call: when to install a new plugin vs develop from scratch
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Different ways to create your content: WP's native editor, page builders, template, and custom content
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Understanding menus and widgets
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Making the right call: ways to use menus and widgets
Lesson 12 of 17
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The most common types of rework people face for bad decisions
Tangible June 25, 2023
Okay, so far, you have seen a lot of content related to WordPress’s features and how you can use them.
But it’s fairly easy to misuse these features and end up causing the website to slow down, have serious performance issues, or even crash entirely.
Understanding these issues now and how to set up your website properly is like laying out a good foundation to build your building on top of it. If it’s not done properly, you will have to redo a lot of things later in the game.
In this lesson, we will go through a list of common issues faced by beginners on WordPress.