Learn how to create a magazine, blog, or news website using the WordPress Extra theme. The Extra theme makes it so easy for you to create a beautiful and functional website, and I will show you step by step how to get the most out of it!
The Extra Theme is part of the subscription from Elegant Themes which also includes WordPress’s most popular theme called Divi, the Divi Builder, The Monarch Plugin, and Bloom Plugin. With this subscription or one-time fee, you have a suite of tools to create an amazing website and monetize it.
In this Extra Theme Tutorial, you will learn how to get your own domain and Webhosting at How to install WordPress. How to create a blog post or news article.
We will create a homepage using the Extra theme which showcases all of your news articles/blog posts in the way you want without having to use any coding. It is just dragging and dropping. We will configure the header, create multiple categories, pages and make use of powerful sidebar widgets that are included in the Extra Theme.
If you want to monetize your website I will show you how to create affiliate links and place Google Adsense ads on your website.
I show you how your visitors can share your content and how you can let your visitors subscribe to your email list so you can send them an email when you have created a new blog post or news article.
I will also show you how you can make your website a multi-author website so that others can contribute blog posts or news articles.
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Extra Theme Tutorial Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
07:43 The 4 Steps We Will Take
08:10 Get A Domainname And Webhosting
10:43 Choose A Domain Name
14:08 Install WordPress
16:57 The Frontend And Backend Of WordPress
17:55 Clean Up Your WordPress Website
20:29 Configure The Permalinks
26:11 Get The Extra Theme
29:56 Install The Extra Theme
31:40 Create Your First Blogpost
40:25 The Blogpost Settings
41:24 Categories and Subcategories
43:59 Tags
47:42 Give Each Category A Color
49:09 Create A Review In Your Blogpost
55:02 Configure The Sharing Options
58:00 Comments
02:28 How To Create A Thumbnail For Your Post
08:42 Create Colors For All The Categories
01:15:45 Create The Homepage With The Category Builder
01:38:20 Configure The Header Of The Extra Theme
01:41:23 Create A Menu
01:46:23 Create A Secondary Menu
01:49:37 Create The Sidebar
02:01:24 Create A Custom Sidebar
02:04:07 Create Template Pages
02:14:25 Create A Portfolio Using The Extra Theme
02:19:48 Create A Mega Menu
02:26:27 Create Affiliate Links
02:30:59 Add Affiliate Links To The Category Builder
02:37:54 Use The Category Builder For A Specific Category
02:39:44 Create A Smart Follow Widget Using Monarch
02:44:45 Create A Footer
02:58:42 Adjust The Header
03:01:06 Mobile Responsiveness
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