In this masterclass, you'll learn how to go from blank WordPress install to functional one page website in less than 1 hour.
You'll discover:
The Basics of WordPress
How to Build a One Page Website, Ready to Show to the World
What’s Next? How to Go From One-Page to Fully Fledged Site
1. Do You Speak WordPress
5.20 min
Understanding the basics of WordPress, will help you navigate the creation of a website. In just a couple of minutes you'll learn the difference between pages and posts and you'll discover what your WordPress theme is responsible for.
2. Create a One-page Website
17.20 min
A one page website allows you to get a real, functional website up and running quickly. Creating this one page can be sufficient for your needs or can be a great start to build out the rest of your site over time.
We call it a one page website because the links in the menu link to elements on the page instead of separate pages.
Step 1: Optimal Setup
Step 2: Recommended Plugins
Step 3: Activate TTB & Shapeshift
Step 4: Go Through the TTB Site Setup Wizard
Step 5: Deactivate the Blog Page (optional)
Step 6: Edit Your Homepage (aka Your 1 Page Website)
Step 7: Set up Your Header Menu
3. What’s Next? How to Go From One-Page to Fully Fledged Site
55.36min (promised you you would have your one-page site in under 1 hour 😉 )
Step 1: Create Additional Pages
Step 2: Create Your First Blog Post
Slides
Questions? Leave them in the comments below!
The procedure you show to disable blogs/blog page (at ~43 min.) does not work. In editing in Theme Architect somehow the blog page continues to revert to Published state. But even when I go back and make the blog page Draft state and go to Settings->Reading->Posts page=Select, I can still enter the …/blog at the end of my main url and the blog page is displayed as if it was not disabled.
Hi Tim,
This should be fixed in the latest version of Thrive Theme Builder to update to the latest version go to appearances >> themes >> Click Update on Thrive Theme Builder
Great course. Once I followed the instructions and implemented them and decide to change my mind, can I delete and start from scratch?
Hi Tommy,
Yes, you can start the wizard over or you can use the button to reset the wizard: https://help.thrivethemes.com/en/articles/4426147-how-to-use-the-site-wizard
You can delete the pages created (homepage and or blog page) and those will be recreated if you restart the wizard too.
Hey Hanne,
Another question please. I created a logo as you instructed but mine is not as large as yours and is not centered when I place on the page. What can I do to enlarge the letters and make it centered? Thank you in advance…
Hi Tommy,
This will depend on how large the file is that you created.
Great overview! A very helpful webinar.
Thanks Blas
Hi Hanne
Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have followed your instructions from the beginning of the video and I’m now in section 3. At 58:30 when you search for the page link in the URL box (for the link for the menu item), I cannot get my install to do the same thing. Any idea what I may be missing
Hi Hanne
I have answered my own question. I re-watched the video and couple of times and realised that I didn’t publish my page properly. TTB is now finding the link URL as demonstrated in the video. Happy days!
Happy to hear you figured it out Geoff 🙂
Hi Hanne,
How do you do this? I can’t seem to figure it out. I thought I just entered my own custom URL’s that i’d set in permalinks. I’m confused
You can add the FULL URL (not the permalink) here: https://share.getcloudapp.com/2NuEPN0b
Hi Geoff,
I have the same confusion for this. How did you do it?
Good presentation, thanks.
How can I collect email address from viewers that comment on my blog posts?, I checked all the Blog’s template an none of them has the option of collecting email address when people make a comment.
You can use Thrive Comments to ask people to sign up for your newsletter. You shouldn’t collect emails if they didn’t accept getting communication from you.
I have watched this video so many times and I am grateful for it because I’m basically clueless. My question is when I am ready to add additional pages to the blog site I start to get a bit confused. I am looking through the courses for how to create a multi-page website and so far I haven’t found it. Is there a tutorial that you can recommend? Maybe I just am missing it. This university is full of info so I’m pretty sure it’s there somewhere.
Hi there, the best course to start with would be the “How to Build a Conversion Focused Website From Scratch“