Build an Author Website

Build a complete author website using WordPress with this free beginner-friendly course. Attract your audience, grow your mailing list, and drive book sales!

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Course Curriculum

This course is designed as a beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide, requiring no prior knowledge of web design or WordPress. It’s divided into eight comprehensive modules, each focusing on a key aspect of building a professional and successful author website. Here’s what you’ll learn:

01. Configure Your Author Website

Learn how to build a secure, fast, high-performing, and SEO-friendly foundation for your author website. We’ll start by streamlining your WordPress installation, stripping it back to the essentials, applying optimal settings, and adding only the plugins you truly need.

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02. Brand Your Author Website

Create a cohesive, professional brand for your author website using the Breakdance website builder. Define and apply your brand colours, and style essential elements using global settings for consistent, user-friendly layouts throughout your website.

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03. Author Website Header & Footer

Build a responsive header with a logo and menu that enhances branding and navigation. You'll also build a multi-column footer layout, with internal links, calls to action, social media connections, and automated copyright information.

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04. Author Website Home Page

Craft a clean, high-impact Home Page that grabs attention, showcases your lead magnet, and drives sign-ups. Your home page will be structured for maximum engagement while keeping the design simple and distraction-free.

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Create a High-Converting Newsletter Sign-Up Page

Stephen Gordon 13/12/2024

Build an optimized newsletter sign-up page for your author website, offering a free ebook and boosting subscriber growth with Breakdance’s global form block.

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Build a Custom Footer Layout for Your Author Website

Stephen Gordon 26/11/2024

Learn how to create a structured, multi-column footer layout using Breakdance.

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Build a High-Converting Author Homepage

Stephen Gordon 13/12/2024

Transform your author homepage into a subscriber magnet with strategic calls to action, compelling visuals, and clear navigation to boost reader engagement.

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Register the Books Custom Post Type

Stephen Gordon 09/12/2024

In this lesson, we create a Books Custom Post Type using ACF for author websites, detailing steps from registration to configuration, ensuring easy book content management.

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Create a Custom Genre Taxonomy in WordPress for Authors

Stephen Gordon 09/12/2024

In this lesson, learn how to create and associate custom taxonomies in WordPress to better organise books for authors. Enhance book discoverability for readers and search engines.

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