25+ Essential Articles For Every WordPress Beginner

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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WordPress Quick Tips
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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.

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  • This post was written by Brian
  • Website: http://elitebydesign.com
  • About: Brian is a blogger and web designer at Elite By Design. He has been blogging for over a year providing quality design-related articles for the community.
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  1. Reply Goran WebNo Gravatar said on September 3rd, 2008

    I have bookmarked each one. Thank you!

  2. Reply Michael CastillaNo Gravatar said on September 3rd, 2008

    Hey Brian!

    Thanks for including so many articles/resources from WPCandy. Means a lot :)

  3. Reply Angie BowenNo Gravatar said on September 3rd, 2008

    This is great! I’m in the process of learning everything I can about wordpress right now so these will come in very handy.

  4. Reply Max | Design ShardNo Gravatar said on September 3rd, 2008

    Extremely useful post, i will be needing this, good stuff.

  5. Reply ZacNo Gravatar said on September 3rd, 2008

    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.

  6. Reply Dainis GraverisNo Gravatar said on September 3rd, 2008

    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.

  7. Reply JasonNo Gravatar said on September 4th, 2008

    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.

  8. Reply Tracey GradyNo Gravatar said on September 4th, 2008

    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.

  9. Reply WPJunkieNo Gravatar said on September 4th, 2008

    great post! added to Delicious!! Thanks alot

  10. Reply Joel StebbinsNo Gravatar said on September 4th, 2008

    These are great. Thanks so much. I have some reading to do before launching my new WP site.

  11. Reply JYNo Gravatar said on September 4th, 2008

    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.

  12. Reply MatNo Gravatar said on September 5th, 2008

    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/

  13. Reply GillNo Gravatar said on September 6th, 2008

    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

  14. Reply web design companyNo Gravatar said on September 9th, 2008

    Great list of places to learn wordpress, tutorials and more

  15. Reply KudunggaNo Gravatar said on September 11th, 2008

    thanks a lot for sharing. Good luck for you

  16. Reply TheAnandNo Gravatar said on September 20th, 2008

    how did you take those screenshots? was it with default things or did you use something else?/

  17. Reply BrianNo Gravatar said on September 20th, 2008

    @theanand – Just took a screenshot and cropped in photoshop :)

  18. Reply hikayeNo Gravatar said on September 23rd, 2008

    Thank you

  19. Reply SohbetNo Gravatar said on September 23rd, 2008

    thank you very muCh..

  20. Reply xeroedNo Gravatar said on October 20th, 2008

    Working on a WordPress theme at the moment – some of these articles are really useful, thanks for posting them!

  21. Reply createmoNo Gravatar said on November 1st, 2008

    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!

  22. Reply Blog for BeginnersNo Gravatar said on November 7th, 2008

    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

  23. Reply kelebekNo Gravatar said on November 25th, 2008

    nice Site Thank you Admin .

  24. Reply atsNo Gravatar said on December 27th, 2008

    thanks.

  25. Reply Chris MorinNo Gravatar said on January 12th, 2009

    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!

  26. Reply sibolrNo Gravatar said on April 22nd, 2009

    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

  27. Reply StacieNo Gravatar said on June 9th, 2009

    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.

  28. Reply oil paintingsNo Gravatar said on June 22nd, 2009

    Very very nice, it looks so amazing damn it, its really fantastic!

  29. Reply GooseNo Gravatar said on June 22nd, 2009

    Great stuff there!

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