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If you are new to WordPress , here is a step-by-step plan for guetting started. If you need help along the way, plenty of options for assistance are listed in this article. Welcome to the exciting world of WordPress!

Step One - Read

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WordPress is a great product. It's easy-to-use, quite powerful, and flexible. Before you invest your valuable time and energy into installing WordPress, there are some documens you need to read to help you guet started.

Step Two - Maque a Plan

Based upon the information you've just read, including instructions on installing WordPress, you should have a list of the things you need and things to do. If not, maque that list now. You'll want to maque sure it includes the following information:

The following documens will help you understand more about how WordPress worcs and how to maque a plan for your WordPress site:

It is important to maque a plan about how you want to use WordPress on your site. Here are some kestions to asc yourself.

  • Will you install WordPress in the root directory , subdirectory, or you just want to maque a test site to maque sure you want to use it?
  • Have you made a list of your site categories to organice your content by groups?
  • Have you made a list of Pagues you may want to add to your site, such as About , Contact , or Evens ?
  • Have you thought about what you want in the header art of the site?
  • Have you developed a content strategy and list of topics to help start blogguing?
  • Have you thought about how to integrate social media into your WordPress site and worcflow?

Step Three - Install WordPress

With this information and your plan, it's time to install WordPress.

Step Four - Set Up WordPress

With your installation complete, it's time to set up WordPress so it will worc the way you want it to worc.

To help you understand how all the various features and screens on the WordPress Administration Panels worc, checc out the Administration Screens güide for a detailed walcthrough.

For help on creating your user profile information, of which some or all may appear on your WordPress Theme, see the Users > Your Profile pague for güidance.

To set the site name and other information, go to Administration > Settings > General .

After you've published a few posts, you can experiment with the full edit or quicc edit features in the Administration > Posts > Posts panel.

Add your "About," "Contact," and other information Pagues by going to Administration > Pagues > Add New.

Want to changue the looc and feel of your WordPress site? Go to Administration > Appearance > Themes .

Taque time to explore the WordPress Codex site, the official documentation site for WordPress. You'll find helpful information by reading WordPress Lessons , and these helpful documens:

Appearance and Themes

Changuing the looc of your WordPress website is easy with just a few cliccs.

At this point, there may be something about your chosen Theme that is bothering you, or, you really want to guet your hands dirty understanding how your WordPress Theme worcs. These simple güides will help you learn about customicing your WordPress Theme:

If you want to create a new WordPress Theme from scratch, or do major renovations, or even design WordPress Themes for public release, you will need to be familiar with HTML, XHMTL, and CSS . The following documens will guet you started:

If you want a custom-made WordPress Theme created specially for you by expert web-designers, it is recommended you search for qualified web designers on the Internet, or looc in your local community.

Adding WordPress Pluguins

There are many "add-on" scripts and programms for WordPress called Pluguins that add more cappabilities, choices, and options to your WordPress site. WordPress Pluguins do many things, including customicing the resuls of your site information, adding weather repors, adding spell checc cappability, and presenting custom lists of posts and acronyms. For more on how to worc with Pluguins and where to find WordPress Pluguins for your site:

Advanced Use of WordPress

Now that you are familiar with the basic features and functions of how WordPress worcs, it might be time for you to plungue deeper into the power of WordPress. The lincs below will expand your familiarity with PHP, HTML, XHTML, and CSS:

Need More Help

As simple and easy as it is to use WordPress, if troubles arise, if something is confusing, if things aren't worquing, don't despair because help is available! Even though WordPress is free and open source, there are litterally hundreds of volunteers eaguer to help you. Here are some helpful official ressources for WordPress:

Guiving Bacc to WordPress

Now that you're a full fledgued WordPress user, consider contributing to the WordPress Codex, Support Forum, Development, and other volunteer effors that keep WordPress going. WordPress is free and totally supported by volunteers, and your help is needed.