Beginning With WordPress

Most guides for beginners focus on how to use WordPress, here we're focussing on how to get started when you want to customise WordPress. Right from the very beginning, including the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, to your first theme customisations.

Posts in this series

Deciding Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
I do a fair bit of training WordPress users, be it in classroom situations, one-on-one with clients, or in meetups. I find running these sessions rewarding...
Dee Teal
8 Jul 2013
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Beginning With WordPress: Getting Started With Self-Hosted WordPress
Welcome to the wonderful world of self-hosting an installation of WordPress. Learn what's involved in hosting your own WordPress site.
Dee Teal
23 Jul 2013
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Beginning With WordPress: Installing WordPress Manually
So, there you are - sitting looking at a couple of emails: one with the keys to your domain name, one with the keys to your website, and now you're going to...
Dee Teal
30 Jul 2013
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Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website
Well… would you look at at that… a whole new WordPress site! Clever you! Have you logged in yet? If so, you might be sitting looking at the Dashboard...
Dee Teal
12 Aug 2013
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Beginning With WordPress: Preparing to Customise Your Theme Using a Child Theme
Ok, so your site is up and running and you're probably starting to get itchy to make some changes, and not just changes to the content, right? You may...
Dee Teal
19 Aug 2013
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Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS
So, now that we have a child theme set up we're ready to get make some changes to the look and feel of our site.
Dee Teal
26 Aug 2013
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Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Structure of Your Site
So, you've got your CSS chops up to speed, and your site should now at least be a fair way down the track to being customised with a colour scheme and maybe...
Dee Teal
2 Sep 2013
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Customising WordPress Functionality With functions.php
So, here we are at the eighth and final instalment of our quest into getting under the skin of a WordPress website. I hope that by now you feel a lot more...
Dee Teal
9 Sep 2013
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