How To Make A Personal Blog In Wordpress With Elementor Pro

Tags: Blogging

Learn how to build a fully customizable Wordpress blog in a visual and easy way

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.8

- How to transform a design to a real blog
- How to create a complete blog website from scratch in Wordpress
- How to edit any part of a blog

What you'll learn

How to transform a design to a real blog
How to create a complete blog website from scratch in Wordpress
How to edit any part of a blog
How to create blog articles on Wordpress
How to embed an Instagram feed on the blog
How to work with Elementor Pro

* Requirements

* No
* I've made it as easy as possible so anybody can follow this course

Description

Is using Elementor actually better for building a blog?

The problem
The problem with creating a blog with Wordpress is that until recently the only option to build a blog was with a Wordpress theme. But Wordpress themes are always limited because you have to work within the boundaries of what the developers made. This will often times limit you in terms of features and design options. This is why I don't use Wordpress themes anymore.


What is the solution?

Working with Elementor Pro! Because Elementor Pro allows you to build a whole blog without actually touching the theme. In this course we just install the most light theme you can get (because Wordpress still requires a theme to work unfortunately) but we won't use it. We will use all the features of Elementor Pro to build every part of our blog. So the header, menu, blogposts list, sidebar, footer and so on. In this way we have complete freedom over the design and features without ever touching a line of code. And this all for a small monthly investment compared to what most other platforms charge.


What if I don't have any design elements?

In this course was build for people that want their own blog, but also for people that just want to use this for their own portfolio. I will give you my design files so you can fully create a blog from scratch besides me.


The opportunity
Learning how to build websites comes with huge opportunities. You will be able to build your own blog website (like I do in this course) or build websites for other people or businesses. This gives you another skill that you can add to your portfolio, within just a few hours of your investment.


Why is this course different?

Most other courses will use limited themes like I said before. That will limit you now, but more importantly, in the future. No website will always stay the same. So it's a way smarter workflow to work with Elementor Pro, because this allows you to change or add anything you want. You can even add a webshop to your blog website without any extra costs. That's almost impossible at most other platforms.


Step by step
In this course we are not going to rush and build a quick cool website without learning the basics first. There is enough of that on the internet. I am going to show you a real project where I'm going to start from scratch and slowly built up the basic pages in Wordpress with Elementor. This means that I will show you all the steps, from the first title to the last button.

Once we progress in the course (and you've seen the same techniques over and over) we will slowly start increasing the speed so will also be able to speed up your skills by watching this course.

Buy without any risk
If you really don't like my course, then that's not a problem. You can just ask your money back with the 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee that this website offers. This makes it possible for everybody to hop on the course.

Sign up for the course and you can start right away!

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to start their own blog and want something unique
  • People who work for clients and want to learn how to build blogs for other people

Course content

9 sections • 46 lectures

What we are going to build? Preview 08:43

Hosting and domain: THE BASICS Preview 06:00

Installing Wordpress on a new domain and hosting Preview 09:30

Installing Wordpress on a subdomain Preview 02:19

Cleaning up + basic settings Preview 08:39

Installing SSL + Security plugin Preview 05:18

Installing Antispam & Image compressor Preview 03:36

Installing Elementor + Elementor Pro Preview 05:47

Theme + Setting up a coming soon page Preview 11:33

Breaking up the Adobe Xd file Preview 05:21

Preparing our style in the theme style Preview 12:04

The header Preview 11:22

The menu - creation Preview 04:27

The menu - Creating pages Preview 08:26

The menu - Mobile version Preview 07:00

The menu - Social icons Preview 12:23

The Classic Editor & the Homepage structure Preview 08:41

The sidebar - Introduction section Preview 09:59

The sidebar - Personal favorites section Preview 08:00

The sidebar - Ad & Explore pages Preview 10:26

The sidebar - Making it a template Preview 05:58

Email sign up bar - Part 1 Preview 04:45

Email sign up bar - Part 2 Preview 07:23

Email sign up bar - Email marketing software Preview 02:23

Creating blogpost content and categories Preview 10:21

Building the blogpost page Preview 14:17

Building the latest post block Preview 12:01

Preview text and responsiveness latest posts Preview 09:08

Related articles block Preview 08:25

Personal favorites tiles - Creating Preview 07:23

Personal favorites tiles - Placing Preview 08:09

Top page featured tiles - Creating Preview 07:38

Top page featured tiles - Placing Preview 10:42

Setting up the footer section Preview 08:50

Inserting your Instagram feed Preview 09:09

Building a contact page Preview 09:31

The contact form Preview 11:21

Uploading a fav icon Preview 03:43

Installing: Google Analytics Preview 09:38

Installing: Lazy Load Preview 02:59

Installing: Rank Math + optimising posts Preview 08:26

Make automatic backups Preview 05:53

Custom login experience Preview 07:06

Elementor user roles Preview 06:37

Website LIVE + Pro tip: ManageWP (1 click update) Preview 08:25

What to do next? Put this in your portfolio! Preview 01:38