Throughout the past weeks and months, a common question that arises with clients and readers of Elite By Design is all about how to get started with WordPress. With thousands of new WordPress blogs springing up every day, it can be quite daunting for a new user to be thrust into a new interface and blogging platform. That is why today I am taking WordPress back to the basics with 25+ essential articles for every WordPress beginner.
First Steps With WordPress
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New To WordPress – Where To Start
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SEO With WordPress For Beginners
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Free WordPress Tutorials
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A Beginner’s Guide To WordPress Plugins
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Getting Started With WordPress
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WordPress – A Beginner’s Guide Part 1 – “Where To Start”
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Wordpress – A Beginners Guide Part 2 – “Wordpress Installation And Setup”
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Wordpress – A Beginners Guide Part 3 – “Choosing Themes And Plugins”
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Wordpress – A Beginners Guide Part 4 – “Admin Settings”
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10 Things You Must Do When Changing WordPress Themes
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WordPress : The Complete Post-Install Checklist
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SEO For WordPress : Part 1
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How To Setup WordPress Locally On Windows
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Tutorial : Content For Admin Only
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4 Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress
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The WordPress Help Sheet
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The Advanced WordPress Help Sheet
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WordPress Reference Guide
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How To Design A WordPress Theme
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WordPress:101 – A Beginners Guide To Using WordPress
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Best Of WordPress Beginner Articles And Plugins
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WordPress Beginner? Avoid Looking Like One
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30 WordPress Plugins For Beginners
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Do you have an article for WordPress beginners that you would like to share? If so, just drop a comment and I’d be glad to add it to this list.
For more WordPress tutorials check out the new tutorial site, The Tutorialist.
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I have bookmarked each one. Thank you!
Hey Brian!
Thanks for including so many articles/resources from WPCandy. Means a lot
This is great! I’m in the process of learning everything I can about wordpress right now so these will come in very handy.
Extremely useful post, i will be needing this, good stuff.
Thanks man! I will be using this for my web design students for sure! This fits right in with where we are going with the class.
Nice list You got here – I personally learned from wpdesigner.com and I can say there are very great tutorials. Of course, I’ll check out those new ones.
Nice collection, thanks! I’m still learning, and I also posted an article that might be helpful to others interested in your post:
http://www.jasonlarosedesign.com/2008/08/a-guide-to-learning-wordpress/
Thanks again. I’ll have to come back and read these.
Hey Brian, well done putting this list together. I don’t think you even necessarily have to be a beginner to get lots out of these resources. Bookmarked and stumbled.
great post! added to Delicious!! Thanks alot
These are great. Thanks so much. I have some reading to do before launching my new WP site.
Thanks for the list Brian. I’m still having problem with displaying previous link, when not using a loop. Hopefully i’ll find the answer in one of the sites you linked.
Hi Brian, nice article here with some great resources!
Don’t know whether you’ll find it useful but we wrote an article on useful tips when creating your own theme here
http://www.peakflowdesign.com/wordpress/essential-wordpress-toolkit-for-creating-new-themes/
Fantastic list of good quality articles – I always find it difficult to keep up-to-date with the plugin’s. They are what really give the wordpress engine the flexibility and capability to do a lot more than just simple blogging! My fav plugin right now has to be SEO-All-in-One.
Adds a massive difference to your rankings once you’ve changed the title and meta description tags for each individual page / post.
Gill – http://www.gillandco.com
Great list of places to learn wordpress, tutorials and more
thanks a lot for sharing. Good luck for you
how did you take those screenshots? was it with default things or did you use something else?/
@theanand – Just took a screenshot and cropped in photoshop
Thank you
thank you very muCh..
Working on a WordPress theme at the moment – some of these articles are really useful, thanks for posting them!
Thank you for your website
I made with photoshop backgrounds for myspace or youtube and ect..
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/5ajonc
have a good day and thank you again!
This is the most awesome collection of WordPress resources I’ve came across so far. I wonder if there is anyone who is not bookmarking it. Excellent compilation!
Yan
nice Site Thank you Admin .
thanks.
THANK you thank you… I am so intimidated by getting a wordpress.org blog going. Maybe this will help me break out of my box!
hi all, great resource you have here.
I have one request, i just cant seem to find. I have a multi user blog, transformed into a classifieds site. And i want to have it so when someone is viewing an authors individual post, they can contact the author by entering there info onto a dropdown contact form that will only send the question being asked, to that specific author. Is there a plugin or something that might achieve this.?
Currently i have setup so when viewing a post by an author, there is a link to contact the author. This is using the mailto: function. That works fine, but it opens the users outlook express to send an email. I want the email to be written on the site into a contact form. Then send to the authors email listed in their profile.
please help
Thanks for sharing such great sites about Wordpress. I feel so out of my league using it, but I want the customization I know is possible.
Very very nice, it looks so amazing damn it, its really fantastic!
Great stuff there!
WPdesigner is the best resource of learning about WordPress themes. I learned about custom fields and many other WordPress things from that site. Its a shame that new owner of the site ruined the website.
thanks a lot for sharing. Good luck for you
Wow! Great post on the best resources for Wordpress. I run a site with video tutorials that help people get their own sites up and running, and I found these resources to be top knotch help for wordpress.