If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your WordPress website and you really want to have things like more control, more customization options, better design features, more functionality, and fewer restrictions the Divi theme may be a perfect fit for you. Check out the Divi Theme Here (Affiliate Link).
Other Themes Have Functionality Limitations – Divi Gives You Control
Many other WordPress themes (especially free themes), are limited and restricted in several ways. I’m not saying these themes aren’t good, many of them are great. I’ve made video tutorials showing you how to use 11 really good free themes. But, they still have limitations and restrictions. Lets say for example, you want to add 2 very popular types of content: a slide show and a call to action. You may be able to do that with a free theme but in many cases, you can only add those functionality options (slideshows, call to actions, blurbs, etc…) to one page – your home page. With the Divi theme, you can add any type of functionality to any page or blog post that you want.
Some of the functionality options included with the Divi theme include:
Video Backgrounds
Blurbs
Social Media Options
Icons
Pricing Tables
Slideshows
Call to Actions
Image Galleries
Testimonials
The list goes on..
Customization Options Galore
The Divi theme also enables you to customize virtually every component of your site. With the Divi Builder (included with the theme) every page or blog post can have a custom layout with custom colors, fonts, background colors, background images and background videos. You don’t have to settle on one background color or background image for your site when you want to have multiple backgrounds for several different pages. The Divi theme frees you up to do whatever you want to do.
In my comprehensive tutorial (and trust me, it is comprehensive) I walk you through everything you need to know to create and customize your website with the Divi theme.
You can check out the Divi Theme here (Affiliate Link) and watch the comprehensive tutorial below:
In this tutorial, I show you how to use an amazing free WordPress theme called Zerif from themeisle.com. Zerif is probably the easiest theme I’ve ever used to make a website because it automatically adds demo content to your site when the theme is installed. You can quickly and easily replace this demo content with your own content as I illustrate in the video.
Zerif is also a perfect choice for creating a single page website which seems to be a popular choice for businesses that really want to showcase their product or service in a condensed way. Of course you can create a traditional multi-page website as well.
To make it even easier for you to learn and follow the tutorial, I created an extensive visual PDF guide that includes text and screen shots of the tutorial. The guide outlines the steps in the video so that the two work well together.
In this tutorial, I show you how to use the free WooCommerce plugin and the free Storefront theme to make a full functioning eCommerce website with WordPress. Some of the things covered in this video include:
A detailed look at the exact eCommerce website I’ll show you how to create
Setting up a domain name and hosting account with a company called HostGator and getting your first month of web hosting for just 1 cent
Installing WordPress on your hosting account
Logging in to the backend of your WordPress website
Configuring basic WordPress settings
Download the free Storefront theme from WooThemes
Installing and activating the Storefront theme
Downloading and installing the free eCommerce plugin called WooCommerce
Setting up basic WooCommerce settings
Creating the first page (that will eventually become the homepage)/Overview of the visual and text editor
Adding images to your pages
Specifying which page you want to be your home page
Creating the Contact page using a contact form plugin
Creating navigation menus
Creating simple products
Pointing out the colored outline that will be fixed later in the video
Creating variable products
Creating a Product Categories page using a WooCommerce shortcode
Adding Product Categories to the navigation menu
Going over product image size settings – Use the “regenerate thumbnails” plugin to fix blurry thumbnail images!
Disucssing the product image gallery lightbox effect
Finishing setting up the home page with the “Homepage Control” plugin – displaying products on your home page
Coming up with a professional color scheme
Creating a custom logo
ixing the border outline that displays when images are clicked
Setting up payment processing with PayPal
Configuring tax settings
Setting up flat rate shipping options
Setting up an optional free shipping option
Setting up advanced shipping options for products that require additional shipment costs
Utilizing cross selling to increase complimentary product exposure and maximize your revenue
Discussing widgets and widget areas (adding shopping cart and other widgets to your footer and sidebar)
In this short video tutorial, I show you how to use the Widget Visibility features of the Jetpack plugin to control which widgets appear on certain pages. Enjoy!
This video walks you through the entire process of creating a customizable eCommerce website with the free Mystile theme from WooThemes.com. The eCommerce plugin is also free and developed by WooThemes. If you’ve been wanting to create a website with the ability to sell your products online, this tutorial should be what you need to get started. Some of things covered include advanced shipping options, payment processing with PayPal, and adding products with multiple selection options such as size and color along with the ability to have different prices for each selection. I also show you how to select a great color scheme and create a nice looking logo. You can see the exact website I show you how to create here: http://market.quickwebsitecreation.com/
Watch the video on YouTube to get the table of contents/time stamps in the video description beneath the video by clicking on “show more”. That will make it easier to skip around.
This is a full length video tutorial that walks you through creating a website and or blog with the Hueman theme from Alxmedia.se. The Hueman theme is a great theme to use for having a full fledged blog on your site. I also really like the modern look and feel that you get with Hueman and the ability to customize the color scheme. You can see the exact website I show you how to make here: http://cities.quickwebsitecreation.com/
Watch the video on YouTube to get the table of contents/time stamps in the video description beneath the video by clicking on “show more”. That will make it easier to skip around.
Be sure and download the theme from Alxmedia.se and not from the WordPress Theme Directory. The two versions are slightly different and you won’t be able to use shortcodes with the version from the WordPress directory.
