wptutor.com

I’ve had a long love for Wordpress. Ever since my first taste of it nearly four years ago I have explored many of its features and tried out all the bits and pieces.

Piecing the site together and figuring out which bits go where was fun, but there was, and still is very often, a big gap between what a programmer can tell you from their wealth of knowledge and your current understanding.

So with that in mind, the aim of this site was decided. The aim is to make using Wordpress as easy as possible, offering quality tutorials in both video and textual formats to help get the most from your Wordpress blog.

Here are some of the things that I will cover in due course.

FTP, SVN, uploading, installing themes and plugins, and other scary stuff for non-geeks. I found the biggest hassle was that these steps are seen as trivial by those who can do them already, but are not for a newbie. My biggest aim is to make the installation and maintenance EASY  which doesn’t mean it can’t be a little complicated. There are plenty of tasks that I used to do “the simple way,” but took forever. I knew the steps and felt comfortable performing them. But that makes me a robot. And I’m not, I promise.

The Wordpress admin area, where all management of content is done. Almost all tasks can be done from here. Apart from some theme layout, which can be avoided by using free ready-made themes, writing, editing, organizing and options are all configures from here. Understanding the basics makes everything run smoother.

Wordpress plugins extend Wordpress to do some pretty excellent things and although not obligatory, they offer excellent features that you soon won’t be able to live without. I’ll pick the good ones and see how they can help and improve the Wordpress experience. Starting with my favorites that I use all the time already.

And that’s it for a start. Keep checking the pages on this site for new tutorials.

Happy writing.