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LEARN WORDPRESS
Want to develop a good website or blog that would excel in design as well as performance with ease? If yes, then you will need to learn WordPress. So, basically what is WordPress?
WordPress is nothing but an open source content management system based on PHP (which is server-side programming language for the
websites) and MySQL (which is a relational database management software used for the websites). WordPress offers its users a plethora of plug-ins that would be useful while developing a website in various ways. For the designing of the website, WordPress offers many ready made templates to choose for your website. So, learning WordPress is best if you want to host your website or blog online with ease. But what if you don’t know anything about WordPress?
If that’s the case, then this is a good news for you as we would suggest some of the best resources to learn WordPress, so that you can also develop and host your own website or blog. The resources selected by us follow some criteria such as cost and value of the resource, skill level, quality, etc.
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Following are some of the best resources to learn WordPress for anyone even you are a beginner:
1. Siteground: Siteground is a hosting company which hosts a quarter of a million of domains globally. This website offers free tutorials for WordPress website development from scratch. This website offers in-depth tutorials for the users that have no knowledge about WordPress to develop a WordPress website from scratch. It also provides services such as WordPress website hosting, free WordPress theme installation, etc. This site also gives details about optimizing, backing up a website which would be helpful while developing WordPress websites.
2. WordPress Codex: This online resource is also one of the best websites to learn WordPress from scratch. This website is hosted by wordpress.org itself, which is the developer of WordPress software. It is an online guide that contains information right from installing WordPress into your system, configuring it properly, upgrading to a new version, etc. This online resource is useful for both beginners as well as professionals too. This resource is also available for free.
3. WP Beginner: This online resource is the most useful for the beginners to learn WordPress, just as its name suggests. This website features all the tips and tricks that would be helpful to the beginners to learn WordPress easily and quickly. This website also features a summary of terms that are often considered as confusing by most of the WordPress users. Overall, this website provides in-depth guide to learn WordPress online for free.
4. WordPress TV: The people who like to learn by watching videos would love this website as this website teaches WordPress through a series of videos made by users that use WordPress daily in their lives. This resource would be of good use as it would allow to practice development side-by-side while learning through the videos on the website. If you have any query related to WordPress development, then the members of this site would also advice you regarding your query. This resource is also available for free on the Internet.
5. WP101: WP101 focuses only on WordPress. It provides a better environment for the beginners to learn WordPress from them. The team of WP101 takes some time to upload new content on their website. But this doesn’t mean that the website is not worth for learning WordPress. Instead, according to us, this is the best paid resource for the beginners to learn WordPress as it charges a one-time fee for lifetime access. Isn’t that great? Of course, it is.
6. Lynda.com: Lynda.com is just like other online educational platforms but it’s the only resource that provides with high-quality videos for any topic that you choose to learn. Different teachers from the field selected by you sell their videos on this platform, so the quality of content is good compared to other resources. Each course on this platform costs some money. So it is up to you that which course to choose from a bunch of courses to learn WordPress. Overall, this is a good website to learn WordPress.
7. Udemy: Udemy is the world’s most popular educational platform often used by people who are complete beginners to learn a skill in their field to professionals who want to improve their skills. This platform serves beginner as well as professionals both. Udemy, just like Lynda.com also
provides courses from different teachers that are professionals in WordPress development. The courses on Udemy are priced reasonably. Udemy allows to you see the information that what you would be learning in the course that you selected, which is a best feature to avoid the wastage of money. Udemy offers huge discounts on their educational videos during their offer campaigns. Udemy also allows its users to download the content to their devices so that they can learn anywhere without the help of Internet.
8. WP Apprentice: This is a paid resource that is similar to that of Udemy. WP Apprentice is divided into individual topics that help the user to learn WordPress more efficiently. WP Apprentice also employs use of videos to teach WordPress to its users. The videos available on the platform are made in such a way that any user viewing the video any topic will get basic understanding of that topic within one hour.
9. The Tao of WordPress: This is also a paid resource which is available online to learn WordPress. This resource is actually a 300 page complete guide to the development using WordPress. This publisher also offers a book called as “WordPress Themes in Depth” which provides 450 page guide
to theme WordPress websites.
10. Smashing Magazine: Smashing Magazine is one of the most popular magazine for web developers on the Internet. The WordPress section is in the blog format, but it covers all the topics required by the beginners and professionals.
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External Links:
1. The Tao of WordPress: https://wp-tao.com/
2. WP Apprentice: https://wpapprentice.com/
3. Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/
4. Lynda: https://www.lynda.com/
5. WP101: https://www.wp101.com/
6. WordPress TV: https://wordpress.tv/
7. WPBeginner:https://www.wpbeginner.com/
8. WordPress Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/
9. Siteground: https://www.siteground.com/
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