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How To Make An Online Course Website Using Wordpress _ Easy!
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Jun 23, 2024
Want to create your own online course website? This video will show you how to easily build a professional and functional online course platform using WordPress. From selecting the right themes and plugins to setting up course structures and payment gateways, you'll get step-by-step instructions to get your site up and running quickly. Perfect for educators, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to share their knowledge online, this guide makes the process straightforward and accessible, even for beginners. Get ready to launch your online courses with ease and start reaching students worldwide!
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How to make an online course website using wordpress. Hi guys, welcome back to another video and in this video
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I'm going to be telling you how you can create an online course website using elementor
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So having said that let's just jump into the video So first things first what we're going to do is we're going to come over here onto your dashboard
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Of your wordpress website then what you're going to do is come over here into the plugin section and we're going to install some plugins. So
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Over here. We have only one plugin installed. So we're going to add some more plugins
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So first plugin what we're going to install is going to be a wordpress builder plugin called elementor
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So when you search for elementor this plugin will pop up just simply click on install now
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We'll activate all of these plugins later on. So next plugin for us to install is astro
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This is the plugin so we can install this one as well So we're going to go ahead and install it
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But if you don't want to you can not install it. It just gives you some more templates as well
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So it's optional. So we're just simply going to skip this the next is going to be the most important plugin, which is called tutor
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So tutor lms over here. This is it. We're going to be using this one. So let's go ahead and install it
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So once it's installed we are good to go. So now that it's installed what we'll do now is
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We'll just simply go ahead and activate it So once you activate it, you are good to go. Then you can just simply go ahead and get started
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So i'm going to choose individual for now, you know set up our platform. So we're going to click on next
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So over here, you just have some general settings instructor profile if you want to turn these on or off
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Student profiles turn it on or off Lessons permalink is going to be lessons over here as you can see you have your domain slash courses slash sample course lessons
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Simple lessons that and then just simply click on next then you have your courses settings. So how many courses per row per page
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Uh show instructor bio question answers. Yeah, let's go ahead and click on next and then choose the payment type
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So you can check the paypal and bank transfer or etech whichever one you want and then just simply click on finish setup
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and now you have yourself a Lms tutor so now what we need to do is we need to go into the themes over here
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And we need to set up the theme that is perfect for tutor
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So what we'll do is come over here click on add new theme
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And over here, we'll just simply search for tutor. So over here as you can see
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So this is the theme right here called Tutor starter. This is the theme that we want. This was developed by the plugin developer. So this is perfect for
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Tutor for the plugin that we use. So we're just simply going to click on install
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Wait for it to be installed. And once it's installed just simply click on activate and boom. There we go
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So now it's activated. So once it's installed over here onto the left side
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You will see tutor starter at the bottom simply click over there and you will see you have a bunch of different options
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So you have colors layouts headers typography footer. So click on colors. We can choose what type of color we want for the website
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So we click over here. We can see this is the color so you can choose whichever color you want
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I think this looks good. We don't need to change that So we'll just simply close it and move on then we have layout so we can choose what type of layout
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Of the website we want. So over here as you can see, this is how it looks like
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So pretty simple nothing too crazy. Yeah, it also asks us to install this theme recommended
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You know this theme recommends the following plugin called tutor mate. So let's go ahead and install
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The plugin over here as you can see this is it. So we just simply click on install
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And boom, the plugin is going to be installed. There you go
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Now we just simply go ahead and activate the plugin as well tutor mate over here. So we activate it
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All right. Now we're good to go. Now. We just simply click over here
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On to tutor starter and you also have starter sites as well
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So you click over here you will see you have some different types of websites that have different layouts and how they work
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so you have the Single course the instructor the marketplace or the university, right? It all depends on you
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So for me, let's say we have the single course one We'll go ahead and click on import and we're going to choose elementor always choose elementor because you know, it works well
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So for this, of course, you won't be needing comas, you know, it works. So we also gonna need uh, you know
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Vucomas as well as tutor lms add-ons. So let's go ahead and add those as well
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So first, let me just go ahead and click on import. It's automatically going to go ahead and install both of these, you know
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Templates so i'm going to pause this video right here and catch you guys in a second There we go. So I think that is done. Let me just go ahead and see
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All right. So over here as you can see, yeah, it's done We have our self website and we all have the content as well now we can go ahead and edit it out
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so just simply click on edit with elementor to edit your Website and you should be good to go. Of course, you can also add different courses as well
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So if you click on tutor lms Over here, you will see you have no courses as of yet
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So just simply click on add new course over here. You can add the title
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The uh, you know media for the course you can add different questions
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difficulties question and answers maximum students Additional data what will I learn and all of the other stuff like duration of the courses
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Of course, you can also set videos for the course as well But for that we need to go into the settings to activate the settings and enable the video option
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So but we'll do that later first, let's go ahead and edit the website So this is how the editor looks like and you can just simply go ahead and edit any of these things out, right
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So it's pretty simple Nothing too crazy What you'll do is just simply hover your mouse over onto each of the different elements and you can start editing it out
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So over here, you can edit this section out, you know, you can change
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Whatever you want you can change the photography master class to any other course
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You can change the text over here If you want to change the background just simply click on this option right here and you can go ahead and change the background as well
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By just simply clicking on this button over here click on style and over here
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You will choose the gradient option right here. You can see that You can see the gradient option just simply choose the colors you want
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The location the linear and you are good to go same thing with this one You can choose whichever video you want to be able to play with over here by clicking on this button right here
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Click on style By clicking on this column button over here to you know, select this column click on style
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You can see you have this option and if you click on this pen button You can just simply enter in the link to any of your own video
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For it and then you can add the control buttons. You can loop it mute it
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Privacy mode click on style You will have different options as well as if you click on advance
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You can add different motions You can add different themes to it as well Like if you want you can put like a fade in so the video fades in or you could go with you know
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Zooming, you know zoom in you can change, you know different effects like slide in as well
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rotate bounce Uh, you know light speed in and click on light speed and that's how it looks like it looks weird, but yeah
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I think that the fade in is pretty cool You could also go with the fade down, but no fade in looks pretty nice
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And then you can go with the duration of the you know animation
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You can go with the faster slower and it all depends on you. You can even add the different background as well
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But yeah, this is generally how it looks like you don't need to change a lot of stuff
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You just need to go ahead and change whatever the stuff you want
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Like themes like the colors the text and overall stuff, but yeah, you should be good to go
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Then if you let me actually go ahead and visit the site over here since this is the course
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So just simply click on enroll now And it's going to take you over here
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You know onto single courses and you are good to go. So over here we have different instructions, you know
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Office hours magic Welcome to the first hours all of the other ones and you have other options as well for the courses now
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As well now if when it comes to adding different courses as you can see over here
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If you click on tutor lms click on courses You can just simply click on add new courses and just simply add in all the other information. So let's say
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Uh, you know, this is the photography master class So we'll just choose that
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Over here, you can add different media as well over here You know, you can add, uh, you know, how many students you want. Let's say two intermediate q a
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You will learn And then you add in some of the options. What will I learn you will add on the everything you need to know about photography
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targeted audience one-liner you can add like photographers or you know Photographers and then you can add course duration. Let's say is going to be at least one to two
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One hour an hour and a half. Yeah an hour and a half and then materials include you can add like a list of
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Assets that you will be writing like, you know bullet points on what they'll learn
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How they can do it like everything right and it's pretty cool Then just simply add in like an image of the course and you are good to go
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Then we can just select the image over here like this one And then you could just simply go ahead and click on publish to publish the course, of course
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You can also add media. But yeah, pretty simple. That's it Then if you go back, you will see you have a course right here
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And if you click on view course, you can view the course over here pretty simple
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Yeah, and you just simply click on enroll now and you are good to go. So that's basically it. That's how you do it
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That's how you add a tutor. That's how you create a Course website on wordpress. So if you have any questions, let me know in the comment section stop below
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And i'll be sure to answer them as soon as possible So having said that I will catch you guys in the next video and until then take care and goodbye
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