Fancy starting your own blog but don't know where to begin? Want to
add something new to your existing WordPress site? Then check out these
50 awesome WordPress tutorials...
WordPress is the world's most popular publishing platforms, and it's currently estimated to power 17.6% of all websites. It's highly customisable, very easy to use and, probably the best part, it's completely free.
Because of its enormous popularity, there's a wealth of WordPress
tutorials online to help you get to grips with the content management
system. But with so much choice, things can often get confusing.
So, to save you time we've done the hard work for you and picked 40
brilliant WordPress tutorials from around the web that will boost your
skills and introduce you to exciting new techniques.
This video-based WordPress tutorial will show you everything you need
to get started with the content management system, including
installation, setting up pages, managing themes, and adding plugins.
With all that jargon and coding, it's easy to get confused with all
of the WordPress information out there. This handy cheat sheet lays it
all out for you and provides a brilliant go-to for any WordPress woes.
Follow along as Paul Kaiser explains the menu system basics and how
to start using them on your new site in this excellent WordPress
tutorial for beginners.
WordPress shortcodes were introduced in version 2.5 and since then
have proved to be one of the most useful features. Get to grips with
everything you need with this complete guide to shortcuts.
The WordPress visual editor is known as a 'What you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG) editor
Author Tom Ewer takes an in-depth look at the Visual Editor in this comprehensive WordPress tutorial for beginners.
Siobhan McKeown reached out to people from across the WordPress
community to ask what advice they would give to people just starting
their WordPress journey.
Using featured images can provide artistic value to your website and
place specific emphasis on your content. Best of all, it's very easy to
set a featured image.
Building WordPress widgets is just like building a plugin but it is
more simple and straightforward. All you need to do is have a single
file in which all the PHP goes and it's easier to code than a plugin
which can have more than one file. Learn more with this tutorial.
It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts
at the top of the page. In this intermediate WordPress tutorial,
Nettuts+ author James Lao explains how to implement this in WordPress.
Don't be afraid to experiment with colours when designing your blog
This helpful WordPress tutorial explains the three main considerations when choosing colours for your website.
Ryan Taylor walks you through the Post Formats feature, which allows
you to add meta information that can be assigned to individual posts and
used by a theme to customise the presentation of these posts.
WordPress has been gaining a foothold in the general CMS game for a
few years now but the real breakthrough was the custom post type
mechanism which allows for the creation of a wide variety of content.
Daniel Pataki takes a look at how this came to be and all the options
that this great functionality offers.
Add images to your site
A few simple lines of code can display author's images on your site
Pro designer Joseph Foley explains how adding a few simple lines of
code to your site can display author's images on your site. A very
useful intermediate-level WordPress tutorial.
Follow this tutorial and you'll be able to build a basic portfolio site like this
In this in-depth WordPress tutorial Chris Spooner explains how to
take a portfolio site design and convert it into a basic theme.
Web craftsman Chris Coyier's three-part Designing for WordPress
series covers downloading and installing WordPress on a server all the
way to a completed theme.
Create your own personalised portfolio site with WordPress
Having gone through the Photoshop, HTML5 and CSS3 coding stage, in
this WordPress tutorial Chris Spooner explains the templating stage to
finish off a typo design as a fully working theme.
Some of the top theme designers and developers share some tips and
techniques to help you improve and refine your theme development and
design process.
Integrating social media on to your site will help grow your audience
In this WordPress tutorial, Scottish webmaster and blogger Kevin
Muldoon explains how to manually integrate the three most popular social
media services on your website: Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
If you want to enable your readers to pin images from your website
but don't know how, check out this WordPress tutorial, which will show
you exactly what you need to do.
Twitter is slowly rolling out this experimental technology called
Twitter Cards which makes it possible for you to attach media
experiences to your tweets that link to your content. This WordPress
tutorial shows you how to use them.
This tutorial from our sister site netmagazine.com shows how to customise admin screens
In this two-hour WordPress tutorial, web developer Thomas Hardy
guides you through how to tailor the Administration screens to match
your client's branding.
This quick 20-minute WordPress tutorial will show you exactly what
custom post types are, and how to use them in your plugins and themes
straight away.
WordPress has a search function which has developers opinions split.
In this WordPress tutorial freelance developer Paul Maloney explains how
to replace the search function with a super powered Google Custom
Search engine.
You can add icons to custom menus without any coding whatsoever
Adding icons to custom menus is a relatively simple two-step process
that doesn't involve any PHP coding whatsoever. And this WordPress
tutorial will show you just how to do it.
WordPress 3.4 includes an exciting new development - the theme
customizer. It allows you to tweak theme settings using a WYSIWYG
interface and customise a theme so it includes the colours, fonts, text
and pretty much anything else they want, as this tutorial explains.
WPMU.org has many great WordPress tutorials, including this one on essential free plugins
There are many useful plugins available for the platform. In this
WordPress tutorial the guys at WPMU.org pick five must-have plugins for
your first blog.
The latest Spotify activity plugin lets you display a stream of the
latest songs you’ve listened to right on your website. Check out this
WordPress tutorial to find out how to get it working.
For more control and flexibility over your site, one of the first
things you'll want to know is how to create a plugin. Find out how in
this simple walkthrough WordPress tutorial.
This tutorial explains how you can easily include pre-packaged or
repository plug-ins with a WordPress theme and prompt users to install
and activate them in one single step, using native WordPress classes and
interfaces.
You may have a need to share advertisements, product
information or your photo gallery if you are a designer. Whatever the
reason, this article will show you how to create an embeddable content
plugin to share your WordPress content with other websites.
WordPress is the world’s most popular CMS with over 70 million users,
but how safe is your install? Paul Maloney shows you how to secure your
WordPress site with .htaccess.
What hacks are WordPress users particularly vulnerable to? What do
they do to a WordPress website? This tutorial covers backdoors, drive-by
downloads, pharma hack and malicious redirects.
The Loop is the basis of dynamic content in WordPress. Here, web
developer, teacher and author Joe Casabona explains what it does, how to
use it and resolves the most common Loop-related queries.
WordPress has a fantastic feature called shortcodes. Here, Paul
Maloney explains how they work and offers up a few examples of
shortcodes you can use in your WordPress install.
WordPress 3.5 was officially released on December 11th 2012. This
version of WordPress is focused on improvements of existing features,
rather than adding new ones, such as media library, plugins installation
and theme previewer.
The shortcode ability of WordPress enables the end user to create
intricate elements with a few keystrokes while also modularizing editing
tasks. Daniel Pataki explains how adding widgets anywhere with
shortcodes isn’t that difficult.
If you've been around WordPress for a while you know how difficult it
used to be to create post lists based on complex criteria while also
conforming to WordPress standards. Over the course of a few years the
platform has come a long way. By utilising the power of the WP_Query
class, we can lists posts in any way we want.
This video will explain what subdomains and add-on domains are and at
just over five minutes, you'll be a pro in no time. Now you can have
two domains on one account without needing to have a separate host!
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