Do you want to learn about how to use the WordPress Twenty Nineteen theme?. This tutorial will help you to create a WordPress website using the default theme of WordPress 5+, the 2019 theme. If you search for Twenty Seventeen tutorial check this page out.
When the 2019 theme was shipped with WP 5.0, I have tried it on my localhost installation. Then I immediately fell in love with this WP 5 default theme. It was very clean, and most of all, a Gutenberg-optimized theme. This means you will be able to add many layouts. Especially the full-width layout on your website, which we all loved and have waited for a long time.
This below video is to demonstrate the beautiful website layout pages you can build by using Gutenberg and the WordPress twenty nineteen theme. I would switch my theme to the 2019 theme if my current theme is not going to be Gutenberg-optimized very soon because I love using the new WP block editor.
..This is for a limited time only!
There are a lot of reasons why Twenty Nineteen is a great theme. The 2019 theme is not only a clean theme but if you want to learn the new WordPress block editor, then this theme is for you. This theme will give you a full experience of the new editor since it is packed with the new block features.
Learn to use WordPress Twenty Nineteen Theme to build a Website
You are going to learn a lot using the Twenty Nineteen theme and do the following:
- I will show you how to step by step installing, and converting your website to be an HTTPS version of a WordPress website that is a business-oriented website. The steps are without using a single plugin. In my opinion, this is extremely important, since using a plugin to convert your site having HTTPS connection is really not a good idea due to redirections. Google, in their blog post, suggested webmasters
to reduce redirections as possible, because redirections can slow down your website, especially in a mobile device. The website will also have some blocks that are business oriented, like a Welcome section, and a business submission form. - Using a mobile-friendly and mobile-responsive theme. Twenty Nineteen theme is both a mobile-friendly and -responsive theme. You don’t have to worry about the theme’s responsiveness on mobile devices.
- The video course will only use Gutenberg or block-based editor. This means we will have a lot of practices using this new WP editor, including tips and tricks.
Twenty Nineteen Theme Demo
With this course, I will also guide you through to setup Twenty Nineteen as seen on the demo website. To see the Twenty Nineteen demo website, click this link.
Time needed: 2 hours.
Twenty Nineteen tutorial to create a WordPress Website as shown in the Twenty Nineteen Demo website.
- Getting a Domain and a Web Host
To start using Twenty Nineteen theme, we need to install WordPress first. And because we want to create a website, we will need a domain name and a web host.
- Install WordPress on your host
In this step, we will install WordPress step by step using the famous 5-Minutes installation process in our web host.
- Properly converting the HTTP to HTTPS of our site
Very crucial step to have an HTTPS website version, with this step we will convert our HTTP website to HTTPS properly.
- Use the customizer of Twenty Nineteen theme
We will learn how to set up our Logo, favicon and menus, includes the social menus.
- Add a “Home” page
Because we build a corporate-oriented website, we will add a “Home” page that is also containing corporate-oriented blocks, including a submission form.
- Twenty Nineteen Widgets
We will take a look at Twenty Nineteen widgets location and what we can do with them.
- Setup “About” page
Same with the “Home” page, we will learn how to setup an “About” page that is a corporate-oriented web page.
- Setup “News” page
With this step, you can add a “News” page, that will dynamically show your recent posts to be your “company” news.
- Setup “Contact” page
You will have a “Contact” page completed with a contact form and anti-spam protection. (Recaptcha). This includes the step to setup this anti-spam captcha system.
- Add a “Privacy Policy” page
We will utilize the generated “Privacy Policy” that is already provided by WordPress and discover the page in our site’s navigation.
- Launch your website once it is ready
You will learn on what we can do to prepare our new website for the world.
- ..And more
You will learn more steps that you will eventually have a solid WordPress website that is easy to maintain, because then you will understand how WordPress works to build a website.
Twenty Nineteen Child Theme and More..
With the tutorial, you will also learn how to create a Twenty Nineteen child theme. Alternatively, you can just download the .zip file as the available resources. I will provide you with this if you are not keen on following step by steps creating the child theme.
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