A Badass Beginner’s Guide to WordPress
7 Great Resources For A WordPress Training Regimen
WordPress is well known for their famous five minute install which is great for anyone who wants to quickly get a website up. They also have a wide range of templates to customize your website to fit your personality or business model. Sometimes that just doesn’t cut it, like when you need to build a custom template or widget for your site or a clients.
Choosing a highly customizable theme could do the trick, but there’s going to come a time when you might need to build a custom widget or tweak your theme to make sure your clients are still footing your bill at the local brewpub. This is where WP can get a little tricky, especially if you’re not a developer.
Recently in a meeting with a client, the person who will take over the creation of new pages, posts, menus, contact forms, etc. after we deliver their site voiced her concerns of working with WP. My buddy Joel Serino sent her a list of resources for her to get more comfortable and educated.
I talked to him, and he said it was cool I share these resources with you. He’s just that kind of guy, always looking out for others.
WP101 Basix Training
Tuts+ WP101 Basix Training offers a 17 part video-tutorial series covering everything from the WP dashboard to changing themes to building custom menus. It’s an awesome starting point whether you’re just beginning to learn, familiar with or an expert at WP. It’s pretty much got everything you could ever want, ever.
WP101 — How-To Video Tutorials
With 15k+ users, WP101 has got to be doing something right. They offer video tutorial similar to Tuts+ and expand even further into what WP is capable of.
WordPress Easy Step-By-Step
Coming at you with a five part video-tutorial, Susan Newman helps you learn everything from the basics to plugins to adding SEO in her article WordPress Easy Step-By-Step.
WordPress Basics: How To Manage Your Website
Seth Leonard explains the basics of configuring and managing a WordPress stack in How To Manage Your Website.
Web Design with Wordpress
Diving a little deeper, this article focuses on the functionality and best practices of web design in WordPress. Topics include Jetpack, Media Management and Plugins/Tools.
6. Udemy — Email Marketing Made Easy: Building up a List
Integrating MailChimp is one of the most important things a company can do for their website, but it can sometimes seem like a black box. Ben Fhala breaks it down and makes building your list of interested users super simple in his article Email Marketing Made Easy: Building up a List.
WordPress.tv
There are many other sites out there jam packed with great content on learning WP. WordPress.tv is one of the best, being built, run and operated by Automattic who are the creators of WordPress.
With WordPress currently being used by more than 20.9% of the top 10-million websites, it’s good to learn the basics even if you don’t currently use or work with clients that use WordPress.
Special thanks to Joel Serino for providing this list to a client and allowing me to share it with everyone reading. Go check out his blog, Think For Youself.
