The “Ready Built” sites are WordPress sites that have been professionally designed and created using the WP Optimal Framework Theme. If you are familiar with WordPress, after initial site set up, everything will be exactly as you are familiar with.
The initial set up however will be new to you, because you will need to edit inside the WP Optimal theme. This should be no cause for alarm though. The process of carrying out the edits is really simple and is a step by step process. The videos below provide a step by step over the shoulder video guide to editing the various WP Optimal templates. I go slowly through all the steps, explaining as clearly as possible everything you need to do on each template.
Next Step Please watch each video and edit your WP Optimal templates one by one as you follow the tutorials. It might seem daunting if you are not technical, but it is so simple to do. If you are technically challenged and need help, there is a section at the bottom of this page that might be a solution for you. If you are familiar with using WordPress, this will be a breeze for you.
This video will show you the important steps you need to take to set in place the specifics of your site. Follow the video and carry out each step. It is simple to do, but it needs doing and won’t take you long to do.
Adding Your Site To Google Search Console
This video will show you the important steps you need to take to edit the placeholders on the site and to set up the categories specific to your site. Follow the video and carry out each step. Like the previous video, these steps are simple to do, but it needs doing and won’t take you long to do.
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This video will show you how to create featured images to a particular size. It is important that your feature images are all the same size. If they are not, your site won’t look professional because the size will skew the layout on the home page and category pages where the featured images get fed to dispay.
Free Image Template / Creation Service: Canva
In this video you will start to edit the WP Optimal templates. Specifically, the header and the footer templates
In this video you will find out what you need to edit in the WP Optimal Home Page template.
In this video you will find out what you need to edit in the WP Optimal Page template and how to edit and add to the Side Bar.
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In this video you will see how to add additional posts to your site once you have edited all of the placeholder posts on the site. So for example, let’s say you selected package 1 where there are 4 placeholder posts in each category and let’s also assume that you have added / edited those 4 placeholder posts for your own content and now you want to add a 5th post to that category where there are no placeholder posts left in that category. This video shows you what you need to do tho add a post.
It is simple to do, but there are a couple of important steps for it all to go right.
There is also good SEO advice provided in this video.