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.
Goran Web
September 3, 2008 at 9:39 am
I have bookmarked each one. Thank you!
Michael Castilla
September 3, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hey Brian!
Thanks for including so many articles/resources from WPCandy. Means a lot
Angie Bowen
September 3, 2008 at 1:57 pm
This is great! I’m in the process of learning everything I can about wordpress right now so these will come in very handy.
Max | Design Shard
September 3, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Extremely useful post, i will be needing this, good stuff.
Zac
September 3, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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.
Dainis Graveris
September 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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.
Jason
September 4, 2008 at 6:34 am
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.
Tracey Grady
September 4, 2008 at 6:49 am
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.
WPJunkie
September 4, 2008 at 7:35 am
great post! added to Delicious!! Thanks alot
Joel Stebbins
September 4, 2008 at 10:02 am
These are great. Thanks so much. I have some reading to do before launching my new WP site.
JY
September 4, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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.
Mat
September 5, 2008 at 6:12 am
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/
Gill
September 6, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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
web design company
September 9, 2008 at 2:25 am
Great list of places to learn wordpress, tutorials and more
Kudungga
September 11, 2008 at 7:40 am
thanks a lot for sharing. Good luck for you
TheAnand
September 20, 2008 at 4:02 pm
how did you take those screenshots? was it with default things or did you use something else?/
Brian
September 20, 2008 at 4:14 pm
@theanand – Just took a screenshot and cropped in photoshop
hikaye
September 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Thank you
Sohbet
September 23, 2008 at 6:36 pm
thank you very muCh..
xeroed
October 20, 2008 at 7:39 am
Working on a WordPress theme at the moment – some of these articles are really useful, thanks for posting them!
createmo
November 1, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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!
Blog for Beginners
November 7, 2008 at 5:14 am
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
kelebek
November 25, 2008 at 3:57 am
nice Site Thank you Admin .
ats
December 27, 2008 at 10:57 pm
thanks.
Chris Morin
January 12, 2009 at 8:08 am
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!
sibolr
April 22, 2009 at 1:57 pm
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
Stacie
June 9, 2009 at 8:35 am
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.
oil paintings
June 22, 2009 at 4:18 am
Very very nice, it looks so amazing damn it, its really fantastic!
Goose
June 22, 2009 at 9:03 am
Great stuff there!
Smashing Themes
August 11, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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.
seksi iç giyim
December 3, 2009 at 2:03 am
thanks a lot for sharing. Good luck for you
lanay
January 26, 2010 at 10:08 am
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.
KUYUMCU KARAGÖZ
March 8, 2010 at 8:10 am
REALLY I L?KE AND THANK VERY MUCH,
KUYUMCU KARAGÖZ
March 8, 2010 at 8:13 am
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Chris Roane
March 17, 2010 at 6:55 am
I just published a huge article called 101 Killer WordPress Plugins that Kick Ass.
notebook parçalar?
April 8, 2010 at 1:14 am
can concentrate on actual design tasks. For now, I am reading up more on the basics of WordPress here. If you’re looking to start your own blog and want a place to dive in, you can’t go [...]
Rico
May 19, 2010 at 7:39 am
Thanks a lot for sharing this collection. I have just started working with WordPress and it’s really great. It is amazing how many support sites and help you can find for customazing.
Ricbi
Emma Watson
May 26, 2010 at 6:41 am
I have been working with Drupal until recently and currently I am trying to get into Worpress for my new project. Your collection of articles helped me a lot getting started, so I wanted to say thank you
mutuelle
June 18, 2010 at 1:38 am
hello,thanks for sharing all these precious information.by the way i’m novice in word press and i find it killing.Just superb.A++
hikaye
August 19, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Thanks a lot
notebook tamiri
August 24, 2010 at 5:59 am
nice post, thank you man.