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WordPress

Posted by Melissa MacDonald
Melissa MacDonald
1,914 Points

Wordpress for Beginners

Which track is the best one to start with when you are a total beginner? I've never used wordpress before. Thanks!

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Melissa MacDonald -

Start off with Wordpress for Website Owners then check out the short course on Wordpress' admin settings short course.

After that I'd suggest you check out the course on what all Wordpress.com has to offer.

If after playing around with Wordpress.com you want the power to customize more than Wordpress.com can offer check out the How to Make a Website with Wordpress course.

Melissa MacDonald
Melissa MacDonald
1,914 Points
Melissa MacDonald
Melissa MacDonald
1,914 Points

Thanks for the tip :) I am actually going to try out the Wordpress for Website Owners because I don't know much about coding HTML, CSS, PHP etc. This one looks pretty basic and good for me :)

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Excellent, well I hope you enjoy the course and if you get the developer bug maybe you can give the build a simple website course a try as the tutors start off with the absolute basics and you may find your a natural :)

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Melissa MacDonald we will soon have two WordPress tracks, one called Learn WordPress and one called WordPress Development. James Barnett has given spot on advice for the meantime though ;)

Adam Sackfield
PLUS
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points
Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

The WordPress track will give you a good introduction to WP with some HTML/CSS/jQuery thrown in for good measure too :) here This will cover building sites with wordpress, setting up wordpress locally, creating a theme in wordpress and more. Then you could move onto the more advanced material if you so desire.

Good Luck