WordPress Guide For Beginners

This is a detailed WordPress guide for complete beginners on WPism. You will learn everything step-by-step to create and setup a WordPress blog.

We bring you a list of several WordPress beginners tutorials to form a complete WordPress beginners course. Follow these tutorials under different topics and categories to become a power WordPress user.

Start a WordPress Blog

The first step is to actually start a WordPress blog. This requires you to have a domain name and a hosting space for your blog. Starting your own blog follow along rest of this guide.

Learn how to start a Blog with this complete guide.

WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

Before you start learning WordPress, I want to clarify one common confusion among beginners. There are two versions of WordPress available on the web – WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

WordPress.org or simply WordPress refers to the web software WordPress – an open source content management system. WordPress.com is a commercial platform and provides you with a managed version of the WordPress software. You can learn more about the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com here.

All the tutorials listed below are for the self-hosted version of the WordPress (WordPress.org).

WordPress Video Tutorials

Watch this complete video tutorial series covering the following topics.

WordPress 101 – Complete WordPress Basics Course.

• What is WordPress?
• WordPress.org VS WordPress.com
• Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard
• WordPress Posts VS Pages
• Introduction to WordPress Editor
• Creating a WordPress Post
• How to Edit WordPress Post?
• How to Create and Edit WordPress Page?
• Introduction to WordPress Categories and Tags
• Adding Images in WordPress Posts
• How to Add Videos in WordPress Posts?
• Introduction to WordPress Post Formats
• Creating Navigation Menu
• Managing Comments
• Using Media Library
• Creating Links in Post Content
• Changing WordPress Themes
• Adding and Setting Up Widgets
• How To Install a WordPress Plugins
• User Management in WordPress
• Updating WordPress to the New Version
• Import and Export Feature in WordPress

Install WordPress

1. Beginner's Guide to Installing WordPress
2. How to Install WordPress in 1 click?
3. Installing WordPress in Five Minutes [Video]
4. Five WordPress video to Help you Install WordPress in Five Minutes

WordPress Themes

1. Finding and Installing WordPress Themes From Official Repository

E-Commerce Shop with WordPress

If you are looking to a build an e-commerce store or any kind of shop, I recommend using Shopify with WordPress. Follow this guide to build your shop with Shopify and WordPress.

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