Article: com. The WordPress organization maintains its own site (created in WordPress) to help new and experienced users navigate through the CMS' features and learn how to do what they want to do with it. Its learning site, http://learn.wordpress.com/, includes a number of features, including the following: Get Going Fast: A quick-start guide/checklist to refer to when creating a website or blog to make sure you've covered all your bases. Get a Home Page: Explains how to use WordPress to create a home page and customize navigation, among other features, in more detail than Get Going Fast. Get Lingo: A glossary of WordPress-related terminology. Menus at the top of each page with links to each section so you can link directly to the information you need. Generous use of screenshots to illustrate how Word Press' features work. Links to WordPress.com Support, a knowledge database. WordPress actually has two websites, wordpress.com and wordpress.org; the WordPress Codex is part of the latter site. The Codex is the online manual for WordPress, with links to instruction in downloading WordPress, designing blogs, using themes, and creating and using plug-ins. WordPress offers several support forums, accessible by hyperlink from the WordPress Codex. In these forums, you can post questions about a particular WordPress feature and receive answers from any of a number of volunteers. You may find the forums more useful as you get more familiar with WordPress, while initially you may find the answers as complicated to understand as the questions. In addition to the written resources on the WordPress websites, there are also a number of third-party blogs by WordPress users, as well as by webhosting companies. There are also online magazines with articles about or devoted solely to WordPress. Good places to learn WordPress include the SpoonGraphics website and WPTuts+. Although thought of chiefly as an entertainment venue, YouTube also has thousands of instructional videos on many different topics, including WordPress. You can type the specific aspect of WordPress you want to learn more about into the YouTube search engine, or type the general term "WordPress" and select from one of the suggested search terms. Online courses offer the convenience of Internet classroom access with the structured approach of a physical classroom. Most classes take you through the process of building a website in WordPress from start to finish; some, such as Lynda.com, cover some of the skills outside of WordPress itself that can enhance your experience. . Some online classes are offered only live at certain times, while others offer recorded modules you can review if you can't tune in at the scheduled class time. Some of these are offered in conjunction with online classes, while others are independent of classes. Some support groups offer face-to-face meetings, while others meet through social media sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn.
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Visit WordPress. Visit the WordPress Codex. Consult the WordPress support forums. Visit third-party websites. Watch instructional videos on YouTube. Take an online WordPress course. Join a WordPress support group.