WordPress for Beginners

Brad Williams @williamsba

Brad Williams Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com Co-Organizer Philly WordPress Meetup

& WordCamp Philly Co-Author of Professional WordPress

(http://bit.ly/pro-wp) & Professional WordPress Plugin Development

(http://amzn.to/plugindevbook) Founder of WPClassroom.com

Who Am I?

Slides available at: http://www.slideshare.net/williamsba

�  What is WordPress? �  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org �  Content Management in WordPress �  Installing Plugins and Themes �  WordPress Administration

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03/22/11

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a Publishing Platform

03/22/11

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

WordPress.com •  Hosted version •  Less flexible

WordPress.org •  Self hosted •  Very flexible

�  Official Resources

›  http://codex.wordpress.org/

›  http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress

›  http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start

›  http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress

›  http://learn.wordpress.com/

›  http://wordpress.tv/

›  Other Resources

›  http://wpclassroom.com/

›  http://www.wpbeginner.com/

WordPress Beginner Resources

Brad Williams brad@webdevstudios.com

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