Are you wanting to create a successful online course with WordPress? Selling online courses is a popular business idea that you can start with a very small investment and technical knowledge. In this video, we will walk you through the steps involved in creating a successful online course in WordPress.
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Following our guide, Christina will show you how to clean up the starting plugins and get your WordPress site in a more understandable state. For our remaining plugins, if you were interested in using the Pro version of our plugins you can get a discount using the code WPBVIP.
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00:00 Intro
04:28 Clean up plugins
05:48 install a new theme on your website
12:45 How to install MemberPress for courses
14:43 How to create an online course in WordPress
16:08 How to add lessons to your course
17:33 How to set up a membership to sell your course
19:14 How to create a membership rule
20:16 Add course registration link to website
21:24 How to add a course sales page to your website
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Great video! What is the largest file size of videos you can upload for your course? My videos are high-resolution so they are all at least 1gb.
Perfect!
It seems so complicated for me, I would like to create a CCW cars2sell, however I want to add some rules and conditions, so my students must sign those papers before the enroll in class, can you please create a video where to show all those steps, please know that the CCW course it's something serious, I would like my students to sign some paperwork
These are always so thorough and well done. We’re slowly building out our offerings – and Courses are our next addition. Thanks for this!
Hi I’m currently trying to build an online course marketplace, where various people can sign up to sell their own courses. Would member press be a suitable option? How can I go about this?
Thanks for the great video.
So I understood that we can create course and make it purchasable for users. Couple of questions:
Can I place video also on this course ot I need extra plug-in for that?
Can I create quiz or exam with the plug-ins you showed, or we need extra for that?
Thanks in advance
Can we add worksheets for them to download?
Is it possible that other people can offer their own live stream webinars on my website? So, I am only admin but others can stream tutoring classes?
Hey any chance this can be done from frontend too? WHat if its not me seling the courses but other people on my website? Can they also offer courses? And is it possible to live stream the courses after paying for them? Cheers 🙂
Hello Great video! Thank you so much for the information. just to make sure.., Is memberpress free?
Great video! Please, I don't have PayPal and I don't want to use it for my transactions. How can I use direct bank transfer as my payment option?
I also want to carry out my courses on WhatsApp, so pls how can I make them receive the link my WhatsApp group after making payment?
I am patiently wanting for your response.
Can I embed video lectures into the course? Using this particular plug in?
Hi – would I need to add a plugin indicating course/website under construction before working on setting up the website and adding material?
Thanks, #WPBeginner When you have a site all ready, and you want to create a course do I need to have a subdomain to install the plugin?
is it enough to use bluehost for an online course website?
I've heard if you have shopping function and even online course function on your site you might want to use VPS as your server to make it more stable.
What is the difference between wordpress and bluehost?
Great video..thanks! Question, where do they actually log in to access the information once signed up?
Really helpful. thank you so much
Excellent WordPress video!
How to put watermark of name and number or email when video runs online ??
Great video! Perfect timing for me because I'm also working on a course. Can we embed our unlisted or private videos from Youtube in the lessons?
So informative. Thank you so much🌟
I'm going to write my course when my audience will big enough ) Good luck to everyone with their monetizaions.
I just purchased the plugin. Is there any way I could make the first lessons free then the rest are paid? For LearnDash they call it 'sample lesson' but I cannot seem to see a setting like this?
Super