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Beginners Guide to Installing & Customizing Free WordPress Themes

Wade McMaster via YouTube

Overview

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Learn how to install and customize free WordPress themes in this comprehensive video tutorial. Explore three popular themes - Twenty Seventeen, Baskerville, and Sydney - and master essential customization techniques. Discover how to upload images, customize sidebars, add logos, create menus, and modify header settings. Gain insights on incorporating background images, video backgrounds, and call-to-action buttons. Follow step-by-step instructions for activating themes, adjusting blog layouts, and fine-tuning fonts. Perfect for beginners, this guide also covers how to design images in Canva and add them to your WordPress sidebar, helping you create a visually appealing and functional website.

Syllabus

Intro
dummy site
uploading images
customizing your theme
adding an image
adding a YouTube video
menu settings
logo
menu
WordPress demo
Customizing sidebar
Adding a basic theme
Customising the theme
Adding images
Adding background image
Adding a background image
Changing background image position
Scrolling image
Baskerville
Sydney
How to activate a theme
How to customize a theme
How to add a logo
How to add a background image
How to customize the header
How to add a video background
How to turn off a slider
How to add images
Calltoaction button
Header settings
Blog layout
Fonts
Theme Customisation
Customisation Menu

Taught by

Wade McMaster

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