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In this video you'll get your sandbox website set up at students dot W.P. of course dot com where you'll

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be able to use all the premium VBS and plug ins that make my life so much easier in my business.

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Several of the Web sites you'll build in this course are made using premium themes and plug ins that

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you can buy licenses to resell and then deliver those sites to your clients.

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We'll use the student's sandbox website at students W.P. of course dotcom to learn to build these types

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of sites by using the student code in the next document you'll be able to get your own private sandbox

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WordPress installation at W.P. of course daka.

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Let's get started.

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I've set up a WordPress multi-site installation at W.P..

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Of course dot com that allows you to get your own WordPress Web site that includes all the premium themes

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and plug ins that I use in my business.

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You can configure and build web sites with the themes but you won't be able to take them with you.

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And that's the beauty of the multi-site installation.

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I can teach you how to use all these wonderful tools and you can choose whether you want to use them

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in your business.

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I didn't start out with all these developers licenses but now that I'm licensed I can sell very sophisticated

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and well built sites to my clients without having to build them from scratch.

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On a side note near the end of this course I'll be teaching you how to set up your own multi-site installation

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as well.

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Let's go over some of the premium theme and plug in providers included in your students sandbox studio

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press and the Genesis framework makes it super easy to create customized Web sites for clients by using

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their excellent assortment of child themes.

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Genesis is a framework theme for Wordpress that allows developers to easily hook into extra functions

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and design processes as they create child themes for it.

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Studio Paris offers a complete and varied assortment of child themes and I use a developer's license

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to provide the themes as a starting point for my client sites.

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We'll be experimenting with Genesis and some of the studio press themes in your sandbox site.

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W.P. m you dev dot org is a group of excellent dedicated WordPress plugin developers.

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They keep their plugins updated fast loading and coded well w PMU devs paid membership is well worth

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the expense for my business and my clients get a huge benefit from all the different plug ins I am able

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to use with their sites.

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They also have a theme framework called up front that allows you to design custom sites from the front

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end all while seeing what you're doing and without coding your sandbox is loaded with lots of their

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best plugins as well as several upfront started themes will be playing with throughout this course.

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I'd like to introduce you to the soliloquy slider plugin.

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It's available at soliloquy W.P. com for the commercial version with all its excellent add ons and there's

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also a free lite version in the Wordpress plugin repository.

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I use the developers licensed version as a trustworthy mobile responsive versatile slider plug in when

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I need one.

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Will be playing with some of the plug ins.

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Excellent functions through your Sandbach site

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in the document.

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Right after this video you'll find your private student code that you can use to sign up for your sandbox

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Web site at WP of course.

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Duck click the student's sandbox button here or in the header menu and you'll see the student resource

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site at students WP of course Dakka.

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Click the center button to get your own site using your private student code.

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In just a couple of steps you'll have your own WordPress site with tons of premium themes and plug ins

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to play with as we build some of the coolest sites in this course.

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Just fill in a username and email address.

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The student's sandbox code choose a password.

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Type it twice or leave the fields blank for a random password to be generated which you get via email

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and then give me a site needs to be checked and hit next

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next just choose a name for your actual site.

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It will be that name dot W.P. of course Dacca and choose a site title

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and click sign up

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great you can go to the admin area by just clicking this button or view the site and you'll be logged

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in right away.

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Here's my new WordPress site within your Sandbach site you'll see that the U R L is whatever name you

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chose EPD of course dot com and the standard WP Dasch admin is the dashboard you are.

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There are some differences up at the top left is a resources button that will take you to a Resources

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page for hosting and premium plugins and premium themes links that were going over in this course and

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you'll see that there's a few differences in the sidebar under settings for example there's no permalink

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adjustment settings.

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I've got that set for every site the same in this multi-site installation.

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You can however choose the themes you want to use.

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Use the customize or use the widgets editor choose menus and navigation items Hetter or whatever the

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theme puts in the appearance tab.

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You can also create pages you can create posts and you can manage media in the standard ways.

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One quick note in terms of media and the media library.

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I've got a limit of 32 megabytes space allowed for each of the sites in this multi-site installation

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and this place will tell you how much space you've used so far.

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We'll be going over how to compress and resize imagery like I indicated in one of the earlier videos

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as we make images and imagery for the different sites we'll be making in this course.

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You'll see that if you click plugins there's no add new button because I've got standard group of premium

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plugins already added to the multi-site installation and available to every site including yours.

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You can see there's a long list of plugins that are not activated when you get your new site and we're

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going to be using and going over how to use a lot of these plug ins as we go through and build sites

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in this course.

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Another resource you have within your sandbox site area.

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Our tutorial videos for Wordpress WP 101 tutorial videos are excellent and I'd like to offer these to

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my clients.

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I have a developer license with Sean hask with with WP 101 and I offer these tutorial videos privately

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to my clients.

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WBM udev also has a plugin called video tutorials that you can click through to and you or your clients

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can go ahead and look at all these customized videos for different sections of wordpress.

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And if you go under dashboard and click my sites you'll see that your first site is here and you can

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make a new site for every part of the course where we make a new Web site.

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Just click Add new and it'll tell you which sites you already have and then you can go through the process

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of creating another site for your coursework.

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In this video you've learned about the premium themes and plug ins will be using to make many of the

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websites in this course.

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You've also set up your first WordPress installation for coursework at WP dev course dot com and looked

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at the differences between a standard WordPress installation and your sandbox site.

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Don't forget the Wordpress 101 tutorial videos and the WBM udev tutorials are available from your WP

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dev course dot com WordPress dashboard.

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Next we'll be exploring the Wordpress dashboard and default themes and plug ins in one of your standard

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WordPress installations in preparation for making your first website in the course.

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Let's do it