How to Make a WordPress Blog and Website – Tutorial for Beginners 2022

In this course, you will learn how to create  a custom blog website without any code using WordPress. I'm Beau with freeCodeCamp.org.  I've created a few popular WordPress courses, and this one is specifically focused on creating  a blog. But you can use what you learn in this video to create other types of websites, including  business websites, ecommerce sites, portfolios, and more. You don't need any prior experience to  follow along, I'll teach you how to use a drag and drop system that allo

ws for easy and limitless  customization. So you can build the perfect website for your needs. And the website will look  great on both desktop and mobile. Every website needs a domain name and hosting. The domain is  what people type into a browser such as freeCodeCamp.org, youtube.com, or wikipedia.org. Hosting  is where the files for your website are actually stored. We'll be getting both the domain name and  hostinger.com. But you can still follow along if you use a different hosting provide

r,  just use the timestamps in the description to skip to what you want to learn. Hosting are provided  a grant that made this course possible. But I had already used hosting or personally in the past  and had a good experience hosting or is optimized for WordPress sites and has a 99.9%. uptime  guarantee. They also give you a free domain and free SSL. So we can just go here, get click Get  Started. And then you can decide whether you're going to create a brand new website or transfer an  existi

ng website. Well, we're creating a brand new website. And you can you don't have to go through  all this. But we are doing a WordPress here. And I'm just going to go through here and it'll  tell you what kind of package we want to do. So we can just skip this for now, it because this is  actually an upgrade, but we don't want to upgrade. So I'll just go to skip here. And then it's going  to recommend the Premium shared hosting plan. So you can actually go and just select your plan  manually. But

this will help you figure out the exact plan you want. You can see right here, you  can actually host 100 different websites on this plan, and you get a good amount of storage and  you get unlimited bandwidth. So that's pretty good. You includes a free domain, and an SSL  will make it so you have a secure website. So this is a good option. So I'm just going to select  that. And then it's going to show where you can actually upgrade if you want or you can choose  a different amount of months. An

d you can see, depending on how many months you buy, the time  is is how much it's going to renew for. So you can see this one renews at 6.99, 7.99, 8.99 or 11.99 a  month. So just pick whatever one you think is going to work best for you. If you're just testing  it out, you could just do a one month plan. Or if you know you're going to have a website long term,  you can do one of these other plans. And then after you get all this set up, you can go through  just to create the account, and you c

an select your payment, and then you can submit it. So  I'm not actually going to type in everything. But it's pretty straightforward if you're going  to create your own account for the first time. So after you get logged in, and possibly as  part of creating your account, you're going to want to get your domain. So if you're done  creating your account and you haven't gotten a domain through that process yet, we can just  click on claim domain right in the main menu. Now here is your you're goi

ng to have to have  a domain name that's never been used before. It could take you a few tries to find one that's not  already taken. But I'm gonna go with B e a u with the dashes that's my name oh, but my name doesn't  have dashes but ODOT now let's check availability. And I already tested this so I knew I  knew it work and I will claim domain. Okay, now he's had to set up  this domain registration details and we'll just finish filling this out. Okay, the domain is registered. Okay,  now add th

e website to the hosting plan. And I already had this hosting plan registered  for this other website. So select that one website connected successfully. Now we'll show  you how to set up an email account on your domain through hosting her. So I'm under hosting her  home tab. After I'm logged in, and I'm going to just click emails. And now I'm going to the so I  already set up this from before but now I'm gonna set the email on the domain we just created. So  I'm just gonna click there and then

create email account and then I'm just going to I'm typing it  automatically filled in something, but I can type in anything I want. So I'm going to put Bo and  then I'm just going to type in a password here. And then create. Okay, so now people can email  me at Beau at B dash E dash a dash u.net. And then I can access the email by still being  on this email tab here and going to webmail. And then I'll just sign in here. And there  are no messages. But I can always compose a new message here. An

d then I'll receive  messages if someone sends me a message. And now let's go over how to set up SSL for the  website. So I'm going to go to the SSL tab on this hosting or dashboard. And SSL is important,  it makes sure all data coming and going from your website is secure. And nobody's going to be able  to, there won't be any hackers or anybody that can see what's going on with the website. If  someone submits information, it will be secure, nobody will be able to see what that information  is.

So I'm just going to click the Install SSL button. And then I'm going to select the website  and just click Install SSL. And the great thing is that it's it's free, it's completely included  within hosting or within the plan. And now I should have SSL but I'm gonna have to actually  do this drop down menu to go to the boat.net to see the one that we just added. And you can see  it's installing it says it may take up to an hour. But then after that, we can go to the website  instead of going to

http colon slash slash vote on that it will be HTTP s colon slash slash vote  on net because it has SSL. It's the S stands for secure. I'll go back to the dashboard. Now I want  to get WordPress installed on the website. Many different website hosting services allow you to  easily install WordPress on the website. So the exact method could be different if you're not  using hosting or, but it should be relatively similar. So I'm just going to scroll down on  this page here. And I'm going to click

WordPress. And then I'm going to install WordPress. And I'll  fill this out to finish setting up. So let's call it my website for now. And anything here can be  changed later. And then I'll put in the password. And then I'll just use these default  settings here and click Install. We're on the hosting or dashboard. We want  to go to the WordPress dashboard. So we can start creating our WordPress website. So just  click on Edit website. If you're using something besides say the WordPress there'l

l be something  similar to get into the WordPress dashboard. Another way you can always access your WordPress  dashboard. If you look in the URL bar here, we have the URL name. And then it's slash WP dash  admin. You can always go to slash WP dash admin to get to your WordPress dashboard. Okay, it zoomed  in a little bit on this, and we're just gonna look at some of the things on the menu over here. These  are all things that are important when creating a WordPress page. We have our posts when w

e're going  to create a new post, but you're likely going to be creating a new page, like the about us page  contact page and stuff like that. And you can also change your appearance. And there's just a bunch  of other sections here, many of which we'll be going over in more detail later in this tutorial.  But first of all, let's go over to users. And you just want to make sure that you have a a password,  we just want to make sure that the password is the password we chose. Now, depending on ho

w you  installed WordPress, you may not have created a password. And depending on what hosting provider  you use, and use meant when it may maybe verify that you're not going to have a default password.  So I'm just going to type in a password here. And then I'm going to do update profile. Okay,  now we're going to go to the plugins tab. Before we deal with the plugins, let's  just get rid of some of these tabs. I'm going to click x here, we don't  need this. I guess they're not tabs, they're ju

st information boxes. And to get rid of  this one we're going to go through and actually delete some of the extra plugins here we don't  a lot of these plugins we don't actually need so I've selected all the extra plugins and I  don't need this one either. And I'm going to go to first I'll do deactivate and then I have to  select them again, and I'm gonna go to Delete And don't worry if you accidentally  delete a plugin that you actually need, because it's really easy to reinstall  them. So I'm

gonna go to Delete. Okay, and now we've deleted all the plugins we  don't need. And you can see we no longer have the extra information box up here that was associated  with a particular plugin. Now, no matter what type of website you're trying to make, you're probably  going to want to install a theme. And that's what we're going to do themes make it way easier to  create the website that you want to create. And a lot of themes come with various templates. So  one theme can have multiple templa

tes. And each template can be for a different types of type of  website. Now, what you're going to want to do is go to add new, and there's tons of different types  of different themes that you can install. One of the most popular ones is Astra, so just go up here  and search for Astra and Astra comes with a lot of different templates you can use. So it's basically  one theme that has one way of kind of modifying and editing it. But there's all these templates  for different types of websites, i

ncluding blogs, we're creating a tech blog. And let me show you  how we can get that set up with Astra, pretty much everything I'm going to teach you will work with  will apply to any theme that you choose. So if you choose a different theme, it's still you're still  going to be able to do most of the things that I'm showing you. So I'm going to go with Astra and  I already have it installed, so you're going to have to install it, and then you're going to  have to activate it, I'm just going to

click Activate here. And then once it's activated,  we can just go to get started. But you can see right here has come to dozens of reviews, thorough  templates. So that's what we're going to be using. So I'll click Get Started. And then we can scroll  down, we don't need to watch the video here, build your website now. And then it's going to  say select your page builder. A page builder is just something that you can use to create your  page to modify it and to make changes on it. So block edit

or, this is the default editor that  comes with WordPress. And Elementor and beaver builder are third party editors, but they're both  very popular. And if we click, if we choose one of these, we can still also use this one because it's  still built into WordPress. So I'm gonna go with Elementor. That's one of the most popular ones.  And that's going to make it even easier to editor website and making it make it look exactly how we  want it to look. And so pretty much all of these themes, all th

ese templates off, they all  often have free versions and paid versions, they're trying to make some money, so so they're  gonna give you the free version to get to you to install it. But then you may see a paid version  that you want to upgrade. But in this course, we're only using free versions. And you can  do quite a bit with free versions. So these are all these templates that you can choose  from. And you can see if it says premium, that's obviously one of the paid ones. But there's  quite

a few of the free versions. So you can see, these are all different ones. And what you want  to do is find something that looks close to what you want, or somewhat similar. And you can  do a considerable amount of customizing. So it doesn't have to look exactly like what you  want. But find one that's kind of the closest, and then you can go through and basically  customize every single part of it. So it fits it perfectly fits what you're trying to do with your  website. Since we're going to go

with a distance recruiting a tech blog, I'm going to use this  creative blog. So I'm gonna just click on here, and then we can upload a logo, but it look  good, it says don't have a logo, no problem, you can upload it later. So that's true for in  this initial customization that we're going to do be doing everything you can do later. So you don't  have to do it. Now you can always change things, anything that you do, you can always change back.  So I'll skip and continue. And then we can change

the color. So see, whenever we click that we  can see different things on the page. Turn, if we go down here, we can see more, more things  changing colors. You can see if we go down here, see, different things are going to change color.  So I kind of like this green one. So we're gonna go with that one. And then we can choose  what font we want. And if we go back up here, we can kind of see the heading, I'm gonna go with  this one, I kind of like the different small, like the curve saris that

are on the  letters there. So we're gonna continue and then we can talk a little bit about yourself,  but I don't want to I'm not going to tell anything about myself. And so we can choose a way I  meant to not agree to receive anything. And so you can basically leave all these checked.  I'm not going to share sensitive data but We'll import all these things that are going to help  the theme work. So submit and build my website. Okay, now we just have to wait. And you can see it  says installing

require theme plugins and forms. So we could install the themes and the forums,  individual individually. But this is we're just going to do it all for us. So to do all the  ones that we need to, to make our template work, congratulations, our website is ready.  So I'm gonna go to view your website. And now we can see what the website looks like.  This is basically the default website, we see that we have the title of the logo up here. And there's  these this menu here, we can do a search, and w

e can subscribe. And so if we scroll down here, we  can see we can subscribe to a newsletter. There's basically an ad here, which is just a sample ad,  which we're definitely going to remove. And so we have different categories of the articles that  are that are on this website, and some podcasts. Now these aren't any won't play anything, because  this is just kind of an example of what it could look like if you have podcasts. And then we have  this bottom menu here and some social links, and yo

u can install or subscribed on here. And then  if we go here, these are all different categories of articles, so articles about film articles  about advertising, articles about photography. So if I scroll down, we see that's one article.  And then here's another article. So each article has a picture headline. And I can click into  that. And then we can read the full article. And this is just dummy text, lorem ipsum, it's not  going to so this is just like an example of what an article would loo

k like. And then there's  related posts, and you can leave a comment. So we're going to focus on building a blog.  But like I said, everything that we're doing will apply to pretty much any type of website  you're creating. So if you want to create a Sophina, if you want to create a business page,  or a portfolio page, or any type of website, you'll be able to follow along and apply a lot  of these same concepts to any type of website. So if I go to full screen mode, we can see that  when we're

on the website, it just says my website right here, well, we want to say something  different. So that's the first thing we're going to customize. We're going to see how to  customize a bunch of stuff. But the first thing is just going to be the title up here. Oh yeah, I  don't need this tab open. This is the tab where it installed everything. So I'll close that. So let  me go back to WordPress. And we'll fullscreen that again, I'll go to settings, general settings.  And then here is where we ca

n change the site title and tagline. And whenever you install  templates, every once in a while it's going to pop up different things like this, we can just  close that. So I'm gonna call this the site title. This is a tech blog. So we're gonna  call it tech tuba. And then for the tag line will say all the best tech news, I could just  select it because I had already typed that in earlier. So then you can also change all these  other things. You never want to change the URL, but you can change t

he administration  email, you can change the site language, timezone date format. So these are all things  you can customize. I'll just click save changes, we're just going to change the title.  And so now if I open up the website and then we can see right here, tech  tuba, all the best tech news. Okay, before we start customizing this further, I'm  gonna go back over to WordPress. And I'm gonna go over to the plugins. So I talked to you about  how some plugins were installed, automatically. You

can see these blue rows here are the ones that  are just installed with Elementor. That's to help us edit the page and a more easily an easy way  starter templates that gives us access to all the different starter sites. And we chose we chose one  from their web forms, this is going to make it so we can easily get our contact form to work. Okay,  so let's go back to our page. So we already looked at all these different things. So now we're going  to start actually customizing it. So there's a f

ew different ways you can start customizing. So we're  first going to click on Customize right here. First of all, you can see it says more options  available and Astra pro so like I said, there's a few different things where they try to upsell  you. But we don't need any of those extra options, you get quite a bit of options just in the free  version. So you can change the theme, which we're not going to do. But if we go to global and we  go to colors, this is where we can change the colors we

did when we were setting up the theme  we chose some colors, but if you want to make some changes, you can do it here. Like for instance  I can for global one, I can change to red, and you can see right here that button change to  red. And then if you ever say oh Don't want that. And instead of clicking publish publish is going  to save what you just chose, I can just hit X, and then it's going to say the changes will be  lost. So I'm going to make those changes last. And now it goes back to gre

en. Now I'm gonna go back  to customize, this will go back over to there. And to global, we can also change the typography.  So this will change what the different what kind of fonts we're using. And then you can change  the fonts for different elements on the page, like different headings, and there's just  a bunch of different things that we can change. So we can change the layout, we can  change, what buttons are going to look like, like it can make it, so it's the buttons  that are going to

be kind of white like that, I can change some padding border width of the  buttons, like, like, maybe I want to have 10 for the border with. So you can see these buttons  just got a lot bigger, because the width of around the border got bigger. But I'm gonna change  that back to zero. And then I'll go back here. We can also change the header, breadcrumb blog,  we're gonna be going through some of these later. But one thing I want to focus on right now is the  site identity. This is where you can

actually add a, an icon that's going to appear in the URL bar.  And then you can also add a logo. So right now there's the this logo, the creative room ad. And  you can see we have the normal logo and the retina logo. The difference is the type of screen. So  retina screens are generally generally screens that have more pixels per inch, so you need a  higher resolution logo. Now you can use the same logo for both. But also you have the option to  put a higher resolution logo for the retina logo

. And you can see while we're on this page, you  can see this other menu has appeared down here. And it's basically showing all the different the  different pieces of content that are above the main content. So we have this is the main content  here. But this is showing at the very top we have the site title and logo which are right here.  And then this line right here is this line, where we have the primary menu, which it does, it  is putting the menu down to the second line here, which will I'

ll show you how to fix that later.  And then we also have the search in the button. That's what we have right there. And then there's  there's nothing in this third, we can add. So if we wanted to add something in there, like an  additional menu or something that was at the top of every page, we could, but right now let's  do the logo. Now there's a lot of websites out there that can help you create a logo for free.  And then there's different websites out there where you can hire people to crea

te logos, such  as Fiverr. But I just went ahead and created a logo myself. So I'm going to change the logo. And  then I can either drop files or select the file. So I'm just going to drop this file here. And we  just uploaded the logo. And then for the alt text. Now the alt text is helpful for Well, for one,  if people can't see the image, then they can, or they're able to read the alt text. And  also if the image doesn't load correctly, it will it will be able to show the alt text  so it's goo

d to have an alt texts for all your images. So I'll do tech tubuh logo, and then  I will select OK. Oh, now I can I can crop it, I'm going to crop it. So it just uses the entire  image and then click crop image. Or I guess it could have clicked skip cropping since I'm not  cropping. And so I'm going to have to upload it in two spots. I'm gonna have to upload it  here. And then I'm just going to upload the same one for the retina logo. So there and choose  Image. Okay, so now it shows tech two, b

ut now it's a little bigger than I was wanting it to  be. So let's see how we can change the size of the logo. So to change the size of the logo, I  can go down here, and then we can set the logo width. We can also set a few different things  like the site title and the tagline by line go to the width. And I'm going to just set a specific  width. So before if you don't have anything here, it's just going to basically be the default.  So if I just delete that, or if I like no yes, put zero if you

put zero it will put the default  size but I am going to make it smaller. So I'm going to set a specific size now out this. So some  of the design decisions I'm creating I'm doing may not look the best, but you can kind of keep  tweaking things until things look exactly how you want it to look. So I've already noticed that we  have the blue here, so it'd be kind of nice, maybe it's a buttons, what were the same shade of blue,  which we can do already, so yet how to change that color. For now, t

hough, we'll just we'll  just move on to the next part of our website. So now I'm going to go back. And for now I'm  going to, I'm not going to do anything more, we're gonna actually come back to some of these  later, if you want to go through and just check them out yourself, you can't wait, we're gonna  come back to some of these later. So right now, I'm just going to click the Publish button. And  then now that's published, I can hit the X here. Okay, and, you know, now that I'm seeing it, ye

ah,  I am gonna go and change the color. So it matches that the logo that we just got. So we'll go  back to customize. And then global colors, I'll just change these greens, the blues, so I'm  gonna change that this too. And if I can basically get something kind of close to what's in the  image in the logo that we developed. So let's do that's a good color for that line. And then  here, we're going to do a darker blue for that. Okay, so you can see we have dark blue, and light  blue. Okay, looks

good. And so we'll publish that. Okay, so now I'm gonna go and  continue to make some changes here. So let's start customizing this page will first  work on customizing this homepage. And then we'll look about how to customize the other sections  of the page, including the blog entries. First, we're going to go to edit with Elementor. If we  go to Edit page, we'll use the WordPress built in editor. But Elementor makes some things  a little easier when you're editing. So I'm gonna click edit wit

h Elementor. And then we got  this open. And you can see we have the Elementor side panel. And then we have the navigator over  here, I'm going to pull this to the side and make the navigator go all the way to the side.  And we can still kind of scroll back and forth to see the whole page. And the cool thing about  the Navigator. I'll talk about that before I go to this menu over here, the navigator is going to  show all the elements in the page. So we have if we just open these drop down menus,

we have  this heading, which is this one right here, the image box, which is right here, and then we  have a button, we get the see when we click on it, it will kind of highlight it. So that image  is this image down here. And then we have another column, which is this image right here. So  basically, in this section, there are two columns, the left column and the right column. And then we  can scroll down here. And actually, if I zoom out a little bit here, we'll be able to see a little  more

on the page at once. So we come down and look at the next section. And the next section just has  one column, it has this image box. And then it has this form. And then we have the final section,  which just has one column, which has image, which is this ad here, the heading but so so I'm  not gonna go through the rest of them. But you can kind of see, you can see how it can make it easier  to select one specific part of your page. And you can see as we move our mouse around it, we  can each ele

ment or each section on the page will have this little edit button. So what I'm  gonna do for now is just close this navigator, we're not going to use a navigator, and then  close it. So it makes things easier to see on the page. So let's start doing some editing to  the page. So I'm going to click right into here, I can click if I click this edit button, it will  bring up our Edit section over here. And you can see this just happens to be an image box and the  image. So you can have a text box

or an image box. So this image box just happens to not have an  image with it. But it does have a title and a description. So I can actually change that I can  actually change it right on the page like this best tech news, or I can I can  change it right over here. I can say your one stop page for all the latest tech  news. And so we can go through and basically click each element and make some changes. So this  read article will let me go to this read article button. So If we go to the button,

we can, we  can change the text of the button, I can say, go to stories. So it will go to specific  stories, we can change that the type of button, which is this is just going to basically be  different colors of the buttons, you can see. Well, let's go back to the default. But  specifically, I'm going to look at the link right now, this button doesn't actually do  anything. If you have a link, and it just has the this pound sign or hash mark hash tag here, that  just means it's an empty link. I

t's a link that doesn't go anywhere, but we want to go somewhere.  So what I'm going to do is make it go to the film page. And so if I hover over the film page, you  can see the bottom left hand corner of the screen, you can see the URL for the film page.  And we're going to make it say that URL, or I can just go to copy link address, and then  I can just put the link right here. So now when we click the Go to stories page, it will go  directly to this category. And we can also do other things l

ike we can change the alignment of  the button, we can change the size of the button, we can change the spacing. And then you can  also open up these link options. And you can choose is this button going to open up this link  and open up into a new window, there's a bunch of up options you can do for a button. Now let's  go over here, I'm going to go over to this image right here. And I'm going to change this image.  So if I go to choose image. Now for some reason, these tabs aren't showing this

. So if I hover you  can see here's where you upload a file, or here it says free images, I'm not quite sure hopefully  on your, you're just not being hidden like that. But if I got a free images, we can see this is  powered by Pixabay. Now Pixabay is just a way is a is a website where you can get free royalty free  images. So I'm going to search for technology. And then I'm actually going to change the orientation  to do a vertical orientation, because I think that will work better in that spot

. I guess  it's not having any for vertical orientation. Okay, so now if I just search for Tech,  we can get this vertical orientation. And I like this one, because it has a lot of  technology in it. It's really about broadcasting. Now you can go through and find the images  in another place and upload it. But for now, I'm just gonna throw in this image right here.  And insert media. Okay, so now we have this, this image that we put into our website. And we  can also change other things like rig

ht here, this is also an image right here, I'm gonna  keep it here, we'll just go down and see that subscribe to our newsletter. And I can go  through and change this and say, you will get the best articles to your inbox. And then you can  see where you can put in your email address and subscribe. And later, we'll get we'll also show  you how to set this up so it works even better. So we're going to go we're going to show how to use  this subscribe form and the contact form. So I'll show you tha

t later. Now we don't want to have  ads on our page. So I'm going to show you how to just remove this section completely. So what I'm  going to do to delete the section, I could click click this X button, but that's going to click  delete this whole section, including the podcast, the categories, and this ad here. So to delete  just this ADD, basically I'm gonna select, I'm gonna right click, and I'm gonna go to delete,  and just deletes that section. So when we I want to keep the popular catego

ry section, but this  is just a tech blog, we don't have podcasts. So I'm gonna delete this podcast section also. So I'm  going to right click, go to Delete. And then here, I can actually just hit this X button, it's  going to delete that whole section. So we have the four different categories. So let's update our  categories. These are the categories we're going to have, we're going to have a category called  news. We're gonna have a category called reviews. And then we're going to have a categ

ory called  gaming. And then we're going to have a category called Software. Okay, now we can if we wanted to,  we can actually right click and delete just one of these buttons or one of these categories  or we could even add new code categories, if we want to add a new one, I could actually  right click on this and go to duplicate. And so now there's a five here instead of four, but  I'm gonna just delete that because we only want the four here. And then if I can delete another  one to go to th

ree. So now we have these, these four different categories. And let's just choose  new images. So for news, I'm going to go to Edit, I did a right click Edit Column. In the in  style, this is where I can change the image. So I'm going to click Choose Image, I'm just going  to basically choose some images that are already in there to make that faster for reviews, I've  got to choose image, and we'll use this image. And then for reviews, I got to edit column again  style, then I'll use this for th

e reviews. And then for gaming, I am going to go to style.  And then we could go to the free images and select one. But to make it quick, I'm just  going to select an image that's already on here. So this person is not quite playing game,  but we're just going to use that one. And then I'll just choose another one really quick for  software. And we'll do that one. So now we've kind of we've learned how to edit this. But let's see  how we can add a new column. So what if we want something after t

he categories what if we want  something else? Well, there's a few different ways to do it. If we want to in between, we can press  this plus button, but I'm but if we want this at the end, it's already it's always going to show  you so always going to have one at the end that you can add. So I can click this. And then we can  select the structure, you can see these there's different column layouts we can choose. And so  I'll click that. So now we're going to have, we can see right here, so we h

ave the small column  here in the larger column here, by click here. Now it's going to show us all these different  elements we can add. So we may want to have a heading. So I can drag this heading here. And then  we can edit the Kaeding, we can change the size, we can change the style, we can also go back to  the elements here, then I can add some text right underneath here. So we can have heading here.  And it's also cool how easy it is to add a video, we can click the plus button here, if you

don't  already have the elements section up here. And I can bring in a video. And once you bring in the  video, then we can just put in a specific URL. So I'm just gonna paste in the URL here. And so  this is a good tech related video how to build a Hackintosh. And you can even specify the start  time in time whether you want to autoplay No, because everyone hates auto playing. And then  there's a bunch of other options that you can, you can choose player controls, if you want,  we'll turn off

the controls. So there's a bunch of things you can do, we want to turn on privacy  mode, that's something you probably want to do, because then it's not going to attract people.  And so then when you go to your website, people can have this video here. So there's a  bunch of different things you can, you can edit, you can kind of go around and change different  things. But let's go over to I want to show you how to update these blog sections or the article  sections. Were later we're going to ta

lk about how to update all this stuff down here. So we have  different choices. We have film, advertising, photography, digital, and we got rid of podcasts.  So let's make it so this is all updated. If we click here, you'll notice that if see if I move  my mouse around, you can see wherever my mouse is, there's a blue box around, but there's no blue box  around over here. Because this menu, we have to edit in a separate spot of, of WordPress, we don't  we don't edit this menu through Elementor.

So, first of all, let's take a note of the things  news reviews gaming software, that's what we're going to change this menu to. And what I'm going  to do is click Update to save all the changes we had from before. Now we're gonna go out of  Elementor I'm gonna click this hamburger menu and then I'm just gonna go to View Page. Okay, so  we can see the page with all the updates we made. You can see this gets a little, maybe too long,  we can go up. So that's something we can actually edit. So thi

s image doesn't go down so far.  But we can see it has these changes. We've have this whole new section here. So let's see how to  update that menu. We're gonna have to go back into the WordPress dashboard. So I'm gonna hover over  Appearance, and then I am going to go to menus. And here is where I'm going to update that  top menu. You can see all these different options. So we're not going to have  podcast, so I'm just going to click this and go to the drop down menu and then remove  and then I

'm also going to get rid of this one Because we really only want four items, and  then now we have to rename. So to rename these, we're actually going to change the categories.  So first of all, I'm going to save that, and it says menu has been updated. And  then let's change the category names. So it changed the category names, we'll go to  posts. So these are all default posts that are just kind of brought in based on our theme.  And then we go to categories. So here's all the categories, and

this is the one we deleted.  So I'm gonna delete that one digital. And now I'm gonna change the name of these other four.  So advertising, I'm gonna change to news. And then the slug, this is what's going to be in the  URL I select to update it. So it will go into the URL, I'll show you how to do that later. So  this is what the URL is going to look like. And then we'll update that, go to categories. And  then we can go to the next one, which will be the design one. Oh, and we can do with a quic

k edit  to make it a little quicker. And we'll do reviews, reviews. And then the film,  this is going to be gaming and then software. So most types of blogs, you're  going to have different categories. And so this is how you update them. So if we go back to our  our website, and I'm just going to refresh here, we can see it automatically updated these here.  So review reviews, gaming, new software. So let's see how we can put that in a different order.  So we want those to be in the same order a

s our categories down here. So what I'm doing is,  basically, I have these two tabs over here. So I'm using shortcut keys to switch between them. So  I'm going to go back over here. And then I can go back to Appearance and Menus. And now I can move  these around. So the first thing is going to be news reviews, gaming software. And after moving  around, I can save that. And if I go back over here and refresh, news reviews gaming software.  So now yeah, now we have the different categories. So the

se different articles are in these  categories. These are all the sample articles. So now that we learn how to make different blog  post categories, let's see how to customize what these these pages look like. So this page is the  page that's going to show a little bit of each article. And then when you click into the article,  that's where it's going to show the full article. So there's two different things that we need to  customize, you can see that there's no edit with Elementor. Because whe

n we're on editing this  page, we have to do it a little differently. So I'm gonna click customize, and then go to blog.  And so there's two things here, the blog archive, which is basically this page here. And then we  also have the single post, which is when you click into the posts, so the blog archive, I can  change what this is going to look like. So like for instance, if I click here, now, it's going  to basically make it a little smaller, and put the title here. So we can kind of just exp

eriment  with clicking some of these different layouts. So here before, we didn't have a sidebar,  but here we have a sidebar, where we can, if we want a sidebar with some extra information,  we can add that. So we have a search here where we can search for blog posts, that are  Recent Posts, Recent Comments, the archives, and I kind of like that I want people to  be let's see, when they go to this page, the I want them to be able to search for things.  And I want them to be able to look see the

recent posts. And we can also switch what side of the  side that's on. So if we keep scrolling down here, we can do different things like we can turn on  or off the featured image. So we want the image to show up. Do we want the title and metadata to  show up? Do we want the my comments so right now, none of these have comments. But if I take this  off, you can even leave a comment. And then we can turn on or off the category. So right now see  it says the keywords the comments, the category an

d the author. So those are the things we can  turn off or on we can turn on the publish date. And so there's just a bunch of things you can do  to change what your blog is going to look like. And you can even change the CIO CEO says recent  Post, if I click this little edit button here, it's going to first of all, I'm just gonna click  got it, and that's gonna come into here. And now I can change what this is going to look  like. So instead of saying recent posts, I can say maybe recent articles

. Now it's gonna  say recent articles. And then I can even, maybe, if I highlight that I can make it bold. I  guess that's not doing anything, but I can make it italic, italic. And there's all sorts of  things you can change. And that can change this stuff here, like maybe I don't want the recent  comments. So let's say if I, if I don't want this, I can, if I don't want the recent comments, I  can click on these three little blocks here, these three little dots. And I can say remove  group. And

what if I want the archives above, I can click here and I can move the archives  above, or it can with archives below. And you can just play around with this and get it  to look exactly how you want it to look. So I'm now I'm going to go into the  actual blog post. So if I go into here, and now now we want to edit this blog post, so I'm  going to blog and single post. So now there's a lot of other things we can do once we in here, do  we want to use the box layout, full width layout, so you can

kind of try different things  about what exact what the layout you want, for each individual blog post, you can change  the custom with the content wet. And then you can check check whether it's going to show the  featured image basically all the same information before you can put on here. And we can change  how many related posts for any space right now there's only one But we can say how many related  posts, we want to show up right here. Okay, now I'm going to save the changes that  I made t

o that. So I'll hit publish. So now that we know how to modify this and change  what the blog looks like, how do you actually add new blog entries? Well, it's simple. So I'm  going to hit X here. And I'm going to go back into WordPress. So there's a few ways to add a new  post, I can either hover in the post and go to add new, or I can hover over this new at the top, go  to post, there's a bunch of things you can add. So I'll go to new post. And I will create a new  article, website offers free

developer curriculum. So I'm just gonna start typing in here. You can learn to code for free at Free  Code camp.org. It's a great website. And then I can add something else. So I can click  this plus button here. And I can add a gallery, which is makes it so you can see multiple  images and switch between them, or a quote, or an image, I'll go to image. And I'll go to  the media library. And we'll just add these, this milk here. So we have this text. And then  we have this image here. And then I

can even change the size. So if I go to the side, it's  gonna give us some more options. So image size, I'm gonna do a medium image. And then if we  go to advanced, you can add title attributes, you can make a link here, additional CSS. But  what I'm also want to do is make sure for this post I'm you can add a bunch of other things in  in your blog posts. But what I'm going to do is make sure I assign it to a specific category,  this is going to be in the news category. I also want to make sure

I add a featured image. This  is the image that will appear at the very top of the article. So the featured image is not an  image from the article, you have to add a another image. So I'm going to click show featured  image. And I'm going to go to upload files. And that's gonna drag a file in here.  And again, I am going to add an alt text Free Code Camp website. And then  I'll set it as the featured image, which is just a screenshot of  the Free Code Camp website. And there's a few other thin

gs you can do. Like  we can change the excerpt. This is optional, but if you want to basically like a summary of  the article that's going to appear on the when it's showing the list of all articles, this  would be the excerpt that's going to show up and you can also set tags So, tags will  be different than categories. And it's just another way to chain. It's just another way to  sort your articles. So I could say, websites. And then it says separate with the comments or  the enter keys. So wha

t we can now search. Now, we can now add this tag to the article. Okay,  now I can click Publish to publish the article. And then I can even click View Post right here.  So here's the Post website offers free developer curriculum. And we can see this is the main image.  And here's the article. And then we even have some related posts. And if I click on the news page, so  here's one of the posts. Here's the other posts. So we have three different posts, including the  Free Code Camp post. And you

can basically do that for basically whatever category you add, is  the category it's going to show up on here. Okay, that's basically all there is to it to adding blog  entries, and customizing blog entries. Let's look at how to customize the about page and the contact  page. So the way you customize this, about page is going to be just like we did that the homepage. So  we're going to edit with Elementor. And now we can go through and in update things on here, like this  thing right here, we p

robably don't even though that's all right click, and then I will delete.  And now we can go through and update this text. We are the most trusted news source. And you  can go through and just update this as much as you want. And we can delete a section like  this, this looks like it's supposed to be like an ad or something, well, I want to change  that name. As we don't want to use an ad image, I'll just change it to this one right here. So  now you can go through. And basically you can change

as much as you want see, any way you click  it, you can just go through and start editing. So it's pretty straightforward. It's kind of,  so I'm not going to go through and change all these things. But when we go to the contact  page, it's going to be a little different. actually refresh the page, I didn't click  update. So it didn't save this. That's okay, you know how to do it. So we're gonna just look  at how to update the Contact page, because that's gonna be a little different. But sometime

s when  you're in Elementor, to get to another page, you're first going to have to go out of Elementor.  And then you can go back into it. So I'm just going to go to View page, go into contact, and  then we'll go to edit with Elementor. Again, and so you can a lot this stuff, you can edit  just like you did before, like for this company information, set up having an address, I'm  going to get rid of that. And I'm going to say, bow at Free Code camp.org. So I'm just going to  put an email address

. And then I can actually make this a clickable email address, I'll to, to  make to make an email address that you can click on and it opens your default editor, you can type  in a link just like this, you mail to and then put a colon and then just put the email address.  And then this time, I am going to put update. But if I click here, we can  see no matter where I click, this is actually just becoming a form. There's  no way to change on this form. There's no way to change what this CEO says

first name, last name,  email address, there's no way to change on here, what that looks like. So to actually change the  form, there's something else we have to do. So what I'm going to do is going to set that I'm  going to go out of Elementor I'm gonna go to View page. And then I'm gonna go to WP forms, WP forms  where you're going to make edits to the form. And we have a newsletter signup form. And we have  a contact form where the newsletter signup form was on the main page. Also, I think it

's at the  bottom here to see here's the newsletter signup form. And then here's the contact form.  So I'm going to go to edit form. Okay, so here's how we can edit the form. So we have  the first name, last name, email address message, what if we want something else so I can actually  add a different another thing to this form. So I'm going to go to add fields. And you can see we  have a lot of different choices. What I'm going to add is a drop down so I'm just going to drag it  in. And now if

I click it says click to edit if I click here, I can now change this so how did  you hear about us and you can say search engine advertisement word of mouth. And we can set this required  if we want. And see when we hit required, I'll put that asterik. And you then you won't be  able to submit the form unless it's filled out. But we will make this required. So we just added  that to the form and see how this has to as first name and last name? Well, if I go here, I'm going  to go to simple. So n

ow it's only gonna have one field. So we basically can do first, middle  last, first, last, or simple, which is just, it's just going to have one blank for the name. So  that's what we want. So we want the one blank for the name. And and then we want the email address,  how did you hear about us and message and it's set up. So when you click submit, it's going to  automatically submit the email to whatever email address you have as your administrator email on  WordPress. So it's automatically go

nna just send an email right to your email address. And there's  a bunch of other things you can do on this day, a bunch of different other types of fields, you  can use like these ones, I think you have to get the paid version. But this is just going to be  just enough this, but just these fields are going to be pretty good. So I'm going to save this.  And if I put x on here, and then I'm going to go back to my site, and we go back to the contact  form. And now we can see this, so the name fiel

d, and that just gives us one, one box here, I guess  it doesn't say name and there anymore. So that's, that's what we probably want to change that but  we have email address, now we can choose from this drop down box really quick, let's see  how we can change that to actually show that that's the name field. So I'm gonna go to edit  again, the contact form, go to the name field. And then under advanced, I can put what  the placeholder is. So placeholder is what's going to show up in there until

someone  types in something, so I'll just type in name, and then default value will be so then this  placeholder is gonna be like the grayed out text, a default value would be an actual entry  that would automatically be in there. So I'm going to save that. And we will go back  to the page. And now Yeah, so I can click here. And I can just select my name here, and  you can see it. So when nothing was in there, we had the placeholder which says name here, the  fields required. And then, so I can

type in that. Hello, and then I'll just click  Submit, and it should submit that form. And see when I submit it says, Thanks for  contacting us, we will be with you shortly. Well, that's another thing that you set up in WP forms,  let me go back to the contact page like that. I've got a contact form, edit form. And if I go to  Settings, and then confirmations, thanks for contacting us, we'll be in touch with you shortly.  So this is where you would change what's going to show on the page when s

omeone fills out the form.  Now, if you go through and test out your form, and it doesn't work, let me show you how you  can fix that. So we're gonna go go to settings, notifications. And if you see right here, it says  the current from email address does not match your website domain name, this can cause your  notification notification emails to be blocked or marked as spam. So right now it's sending to the  end email, which is definitely what I want. But it's coming from an email. But we don't

want it to  come from edit admin email it's doing right here, you may want to it says try using a form  address that matches your website domain. And then it gives us a suggestion, which I'm  just going to use this Simon make it come come from no reply@bow.net. And then we can also  change that. So this is going to be called Tech tuber. And then we can even change the email  subject line that comes in. So I'll put new entry tech tuba. And now I can just check all  these other things. And this l

ooks good. So I'm going to save this. Okay, now I'm going  to test out the form again. Now we could test it on the page like we did before, but it can  also just test it here. But I can also test it by just clicking this preview button here. And  now. It's the contact form preview so it's not really on the contact page with exact same form.  And I just want to test to make sure it works. Does my form work? Okay. You always want  to make sure it works before before you launch your website because

you want to make  Make sure that people sort of contact you, it actually just does actually come in. And I  went to my email and actually had to go to my spam folder. So I'm gonna go to my spam folder  here. And then you can see it came in. And I'm going to do report not spam. So hopefully  next time, I won't go to my spam folder. Now, we've already learned how to update a lot of parts  of our websites. But let's do a few more things. You can see when I click reviews, if you look  at the URL he

re, that's not a really a good URL, cat equals three, we want this to say, reviews  here. So and then if I click on actual article, it just says P equals 39. That's not the type  of URL that we want. And it's not really search engine optimized. So I'm gonna go back over to  my dashboard, then I'm gonna go to Settings, and then go to permalinks. So this is where we  change what the link is going to look like. And right now we have on plane, that's the default.  And that's basically the worst thin

g that you don't you don't want plane. Personally, I think  the best thing is just to use post name. So this is going to be a lot more readable URL. And so  it's not just going to be like P equals 123, it's going to be the actual name of the post.  So I'm going to click save changes. And then I'm just going to refresh here. And now if I go  to reviews, we can see category reviews. Well, that's all I want go here, category gaming. If I  click on a actual article, you can see actually the article

now this is just some sample text here  for the article name. But if we go let's go to the article that that we wrote here, they click  here, website offers free developer curriculum, that looks pretty good, that looks a lot better.  But let me show you how you would if you didn't like this URL, let me show you how you change that  I forgot to edit post here, I can actually edit the post, but I can also edit the URL. So just  click right into the URL here. And website offers free instead, websit

e offers free drip developer  curriculum, I'm going to say Free Code Camp. Okay, now update. And then  we will, I'll go to Preview and preview a new tab. And now we can see. So we  don't really want the preview, we want the actual one. So let me go to news. And this Free Code Camp  offers free developer curriculum. Great, that's the exact type of URL we want. Now I want to talk  to you more about making your website responsive. What I'm gonna do is go into I'm gonna  go actually back to the home

page here, I just click this link here or the the the logo  to go back to the homepage, and I'm gonna go back to edit with Elementor. Now we're going to talk  about how to make sure it looks good, whether it's on a desktop, a tablet, or a mobile device.  If we come down here to the bottom left corner, and it says responsive mode. If I click this,  now, we can see this new menu at the top here, I'm gonna go back to full screen. And we  can see this is desktop mode, tablet mode, or mobile. So I'm

gonna click on mobile. Now  it's showing what this is going to look like on mobile. And we can actually make changes  like so far, this looks pretty good. But we can actually make changes to what it's going to look  like only on mobile. So I'm going to click here. And this, I want this to be centered, but only on  mobile. So I'm going to click on style, and then okay, and then content. And then  I'm gonna click the centered button. And then you can see, see how there's this little  mobile icon.

That's how we know it's only being centered when it's on mobile. So I can click  update. Now, let me switch between. So on the not mobile on desktop, we can see this is left  aligned. But if I switch back to mobile, we can see that it's centered. So that makes it it's and  then we can also see we have this hamburger menu here. That's going to look a lot better on mobile.  And so that's just a nice way to test what your website is going to look on for different aspect  ratios and different types

of devices. See, that looks pretty good. And then you can always make  changes that are specific to one type of device or aspect ratio, just how I showed you. Okay, we  go out of this. And now we're going to look at how we can update this footer here. So everything  down here, we can't just we can't just edit with elemental and excellent go back into Elementor  there's no way to see it. If I move my mouse around here, nothing's really highlighting as the  different sections. So to modify the foo

ter, we're gonna have to go there's a few different ways to  get into the method where you modify the footer, but I'm gonna go into customize. And then once I'm  in the Customize header builder is how you update what the header is going to look like. So we have  the menu here, the Search button. So if I just if we like this subscribe button, what that's  really not helpful here, because we already have the surprise the subscribe form in another place,  so I can just remove that subscribe button.

And the same thing with the header, I'm gonna go  or the same thing with the footer, I'm gonna go to footer builder, and the footer builder, we  can see there's three different sections of the footer. So this top section with the menu that's  right here, the social icons right here, then we have this HTML, that's basically this text right  here, this widget, which is this subscribe form, and the copyright form at the bottom. So if I  click on any one of those things, you can see it's going to c

hange what's in the side menu. So  the footer menu, I'm going to keep that basically the same for the social icons, this is where I  can update the links for the social icons, or just take them away, like, we're probably not going to  want Facebook. But for YouTube, I can just type in the YouTube URL, so ACBS, colon slash less  youtube.com/free code camp, and then or we can update the Twitter URL. So https colon, slash  slash twitter.com/free. Code Camp. And then we can also change what the icon

s is going to  look like. So basically, I want the the icon, but let's say we want to add a new new thing.  So I can, basically we can, we can click any of these. And just to add social icon, it's gonna  look like little phone here. But I can change the icon. And there's a bunch of icons available.  So it can just kind of go through these pages, or I can search the icon, I'm going to make it  this bacterium. So if I click on that bacterium, now we have a, we should be able to  have a bacterium,

a bacterium icon. But I don't really want that. So they go out of  that. And I'm, basically we're just going to have to hear Twitter and YouTube. And then I can also  change this right here. So instead of sign up to receive email updates for US News and more,  as I say, sign up to receive news. This button this little form here, you edit just what that WP  forms the same way we updated the contact form, you can update this was just one little, this  really small form here. And but now we can als

o update the copyright. So we can say cap rate, we  can say when it says cap rate, and these, these brackets here, that's the cap rate sign, current  year, site title. Anytime there's the brackets that we're doing something dynamic here, the site  title, and then powered by site title, or we can put created by, you can see it's an update right  there. Okay, now, I'm just going to publish that. Okay, great. So now we learn how to  update all the stuff in the footer. And this is looking pretty goo

d. I mean, it's  not like professionally designed or anything. But we're learning we've learned how to update pretty  much everything in this blog. Now let's learn how to make one more type of page. So we know how  to make the blog entries. And we know how to edit the list of blog entries here. But there's  this other type the about. So this about page is a page. And let's say you want another just  informational page, you don't want to be a blog, you want to just be some sort of other piece  of

information that we can put on our websites. Let's say that you want to offer consulting  services, and you want to give people information about how they can learn more about that. Well,  let me show you how you would do that. Let's go back to our administrator page. And I'm  gonna go to where it says pages. So first, I'll just click here we can see all the current  pages, we can see that we have the about contact home. And then we have some pages that we're not  using. Like we're not using th

e podcast page. So right now I'm just going to delete this I'm gonna  click that and then just click trash, or it could just click trash actually selecting it so you  can do a bulk action. But let's create a new page and then we'll add it to our top menu. So I'm  gonna go up to the top it says add new But first, I'm just going to close that. And then we'll add  a new page. And I will just call it consulting. And you can just call it whatever you want. And  now we're going to edit it basically ve

ry similar to how you edit a blog post, I offer consulting  services, if you want to schedule a meeting, click the link below. And  now I'm going to add a button contact me. And then I can just do contact if I if  I just type start typing contact, it will, it will do a search for the different pages we already  have. So I can make this Contact Me button, go to the contact page. So you can obviously add  different images, you can design this how you want, like, I could click this plus button, plu

s  thing, and then add a gallery, where we can just choose a few different images for the gallery.  Actually, this one, I will choose the people. So you can choose all these images for a  gallery and then do create new gallery. And you can even adjust the order of the  images in the gallery. Okay, so now let's just see what this looks like. So I can before  I can publish it, I can also change the URL. Right now it's on auto draft I'm going to so you  can see it's eventually going to be consultin

g, that's going to be the permalink which which  is what we want, you can change the URL if you want. And I will just click publish. And then  just click Publish again. And now I can view the page. And here's our page consulting. If I offer  consulting service, we have the contact me which goes to the contact page, it but we can go back.  And this doesn't really look that good. But you can kind of get the idea of where you can just add  different pictures, you can design it exactly how you want.

So let's see how to add the consulting  page to this top menu. Well, it's similar to when we were adjusting what links are up here. And we  can do the same thing with our consulting page. So I'm going to go back to WordPress dashboard. And  then I'm going to go to Appearance and Menus. And now we can add a new section. So basically, I can  click here, where it says consulting. And so these are all the things that aren't currently in the  menu. Well, I guess some of them are in the menu, but I'l

l click consulting and do Add to Menu.  And then I can just reorder it, and put it right before about. And then if we go to Save Menu, and  now I can open the page again. And we can see that the consulting page. So we have the the main page  views gaming, and consulting. Okay, we learned how to add a page. Now let's talk about search  engine optimization. Let's go back to our main, our main dashboard. So we are going to install  a special plugin that's going to help our blog and our pages show u

p better in search engines.  So I'm gonna go to plugins, and I'm going to go to Add New. Now I'm just going to Search for one  called Yoast SEO, y o a s t SEO. Now this is one of the most popular SEO plugins you can see has  5 million active installations. This is another one popular one. That's All In One SEO. But we're  gonna go with Yoast SEO installous. And it's going to help us better optimize our WordPress site. So  after it's installed, I can just click Activate. So we can see that our SS

your site is already  easier to find it for search engine. So it automatically does does some things right away,  but we can configure to make it even better. So so let's go down and there is this paid version.  But we're just going to go with the free version, because you can get a lot just with  the free version. So we'll start start, we're starting to SEO data optimization. And it's  analyzing the site that way we don't even have that much on the site. So it can so it is good. So  it works.

If you already have a bunch on the site, it will analyze it. But if you have it and then  you create another bunch of a bunch of blog posts after you've already installed then it will kind  of work with with your content as you create it. So click Continue. And does your site represent  organization or a person I'll go with person. Now let's keep going on this. And then  we can add information now you don't have to put in all this information, but  it helps Let's optimize the metadata. So now I'

m just going to add the Twitter.  So how about twitter.com/beau Carnes? And then save and continue, oh, it's  to be s colon slash slash, there we go. Now, do we want to give them data from the  site? Well, I'm just gonna put no don't track my site data. I'm glad that that's the  default. And we can sign up for a newsletter, I'm not going to do that. So Save and Continue.  And now we can visit the SEO dashboard. So it's going to detect prompted, and luckily, we  don't have any SEO problems. But l

et's go through. And then we can choose what features we want to  want to use. So all these features basically apply to when you're creating a blog entry. So a lot  of things like the SEO analysis, the readability analysis, and a lot of this is going to appear  when you're actually creating a blog post. So and these weren't for both new posts and posts you  already have. So let me show you how that works. I'm gonna go to the posts, and then we'll go to  the website offers free developer curricul

um. And if we scroll down here, we can see  there's a new section here, Yoast SEO. And then we have the focus key phrase, and  we click here, it's gonna show what that is. So it says, you'll find a focus key phrase  input field for every page on your site, you can enter the keyword or key phrase you like  you'd like the page to rank for in Google. And then the Yoast SEO will read check on the pages  contents to see if search engines will recognize that's what it's about. So let's let's see how 

that works. So for this, we want to get the phrase learn to code. So I'm just going to type in,  learn to code. And we'll get related key phrases. Okay, and I'm going to approve  it for this application. And now we can see our related key phrases. So  I typed in, learn to code, and it's showing all these related ones. But now that we've put in  this key phrase, so really a key phrase would be other phrases that kind of go along with  it. So this will show us the volume of like, how many searches

are happening for that key  phrase? So we can try to figure out which key phrase should we optimize for which key  phrases should we put in our title? Should we put in the body of our article? And then so  let's just keep going down here and look at some of these other things. We can see the Google  preview, what it's going to look like and Google. And we can see information from the page. And then  look at this the SEO analysis. So this is going to give us some information that we can improve

on.  Have you evenly distributed your focus key phrase throughout the whole text? Well, no, because it  was just like a very quick article. And we want to see at some so these are all suggestions and  outbound links, and internal links. Make sure the key phrases in the SEO title, update the  meta description link. That's this description here that we can we can update that description,  that text link, that text link contains 13 words, it's recommended to be 300 words. So it's gonna  give us all

these suggestions, it gives us things that we're doing good. And we can go through and  this is gonna give us some information about how to make our articles more SEO friendly. And then  we can there's a bunch of other things here. But let's go to this next tab, readability. So this is  going to tell us how read a readable article is. And for the most part, we have a lot of good  results. But that's just because an article is pretty short. So if you have a longer article,  it will give you more

suggestions for how to improve the readability. And here is where you  can update the schema. Now it says right here, this helps search engines understand your website  and your content. So this page default proposed this is a blog post, we want to just keep it that  article type blog posts. So these are generally going to be correct automatically. But if you want  to change like this, if this is the about page, a fact page, these are those are going to be  more specific for those pages on the

about page, it's not going to know it's the about page unless  you specify. So that's basically how you can use this SEO plugin to improve your SEO. Okay, and  that's about it. You now know enough to create your own blog and to start customizing it to meet  your exact needs. We've reached the end of the course. Good luck on making your own WordPress  website. And remember to use your code for good!