📖 WordPress Online Resources

WordPress is a well-known content management system used around the world to host a variety of enterprise level web sites. As such it has a large pool of training and technical resources. These are resources used by developers to improve their WordPress skills.

Resources

For this course, we are going to be using online resources.

  1. WordPress Tutorials
    This is the official WordPress documentation site at wordpress.org. There are a number of good tutorials at this site.
  2. WPBeginner Tutorial Videos
    This is a free tutorial site that has some great video tutorials. It does require you to register an account to see the videos, but there is no cost or request for a payment method. To get started on this site, click the link above and create your free account. You will then get an email to allow you to login. You will get a few emails from this site, but you can unsubscribe when the course is over or better yet, just create a temporary gmail account to use for this.

Each lesson will provide a link to the tutorials in each of these resources that cover the material from that lesson. For this first lesson, you should review these tutorials and videos.

WordPress Documentation

  1. Installing WordPress - optional - IMPORTANT NOTE: review the information here, but do NOT attempt an install. You will be configuring an installation on the course web server, so your instructions will be different.
  2. First Steps With WordPress
  3. WordPress Semantics

WPBeginner

  1. What is WordPress?
  2. WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
  3. How to Install WordPress - optional - IMPORTANT NOTE: review the information here, but do NOT attempt an install. You will be configuring an installation on the course web server, so your instructions will be different.
  4. The Dashboard