List of the Best WordPress Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Resources

Are you a WordPress user or thinking about transferring to self-hosted WordPress? Check out this list of some of the best WordPress tips, tricks, tutorials and how to guides that I have found (as well as a few I have written). While I am not a WordPress expert, I am very experienced using it. I am 100% self-taught on WordPress (as well as designing). These WordPress tutorials, videos and resources have helped me learn the ins and outs of WordPress. I hope they will help you as well.  Be sure to bookmark this post because I will add links to more WordPress tutorials as I find them or write them.

CEO of Me’s Tutorials:

• 10 Things you need to know & do before starting a blog

• How to Create a Blog
• How to Improve your Blog’s SEO & Social Media Reach (Search Engine Optimization)

• What Plugins Do, Must Have WordPress Plugins and How to Install and Remove Plugin

• How to Set Up Your Feedburner Account & Add an Email Subscribe Box Widget  NOTE – I now use Mad Mimi for my weekly email newsletter and do not use Feedburner. For those who do use it this is helpful though!

• Blog information document / Important Info you should know about your WordPress Blog– print and fill in all your domain, hosting, wordpress and designer’s information on this one document so you keep everything organized and together!

• What  I learned when my WordPress Site was Hacked

Other Helpful Tutorials:

• WordPress Tutorials Video Series

• WordPress.org’s Support Forums

• Getting Started With WordPress

• How the Visual Editor works in WordPress (what the buttons do, tips & tricks when writing / editing posts/pages)

• How to use HTML to style text in a text widget in WordPress

• Video on how to work with Widgets in WordPress

• Basic HTML tips for WordPress

• Video of how to Customize Menu’s and create drop down menu’s in WordPress

• Genesis Guide for Absolute Beginners (For Genesis by StudioPress theme users)

• Genesis Simple Hooks Visual Guide (For Genesis by StudioPress theme users)

SEO Tips:

• SEO Basics and Info

• How to Select Good Keywords

• SEO Articles on Problogger

• SEO Guide for Creative Bloggersm

• SEOMoz’s Beginner’s Guide to SEO

WordPress User Account Types/Definitions:

(per WordPress.org)

• Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features
• Editor – Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users’ posts, etc.
• Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
• Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish them
• Subscriber – Somebody who can only manage their profile

More Helpful WordPress & Blogging Tip Sites:

• Blogging with Amy

• WP Smith

• The WordPress Chick

• Just Ask Kim

Blogging Books and Courses I HIGHLY recommend:

These ebooks and courses are NOT WordPress specific, if you are on Blogger they will still benefit you. However self-hosted WordPress does offer more options and the ability to maximize your SEO. I did still want to mention these books and courses as I feel they have been an important part of my success as a blogger.

If you are new to blogging or ready to really blog as a business/for an income, check out these 2 eBooks from Problogger.com.  Use the code FWOB33 to get $10 off! I recommend the First Week eBook for brand new bloggers and the 31 Days eBook for novice bloggers.
 

 

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