Anyone could suggest the best way to learn Wordpress in a fast and effective manner. I've played around with it a little but I'm looking for a course, tutorial or book recommendation. Anything that would allow me to navigate comfortably through Wordpress. It doesn't have to be free but low cost. Any suggestions??

Thanks

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Genevieve Lachance
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Hi Genevieve,

I am no expert but I have found an e-book called Digging into Wordpress and I find that it has helped a great deal. click here to check them out.

I hope this helps.

Ivette

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Also try WordPress for Dummies.

Fiona

Honestly, I have always learned things most effectively by just jumping in and doing. The WordPress Codex is where I would start.

Good luck!

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Thanks everybody for the feedback. So much to learn...Just when I thought I was ok with my site I'm thinking about changing everything again!

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Genevieve Lachance
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I suggest you should study first the basic in HTML/XHTML/PHP/MYSQP/CSS.

Genevieve -

Great person who helped me out, that is a member of this forum and fellow VA is Tina Hilton! The approach I personally took was to get help from her after reading the books, and diving in for awhile because she was able to fill in the gaps that books and other reading and hands on didn't seem to help me with.

Pam

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Do you need to know coding to create sites in WP?

Virtually yours - Not necessarily. Depends on if you are self-hosting, and even then if you want to just utilize whatever the WordPress template has to offer, as is, you don't need coding. However, it would be beneficial for anyone to learn at least some basic HTML & CSS...and maybe there are other languages as well (Tess is the expert) but knowing at least some will give you ability to tweak things a bit more. Also, if you want to go even more advanced you can purchase for a very reasonable cost, templates such as Headway or Thesis.

Pam

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I went to the WP site and I don't see where the templates are. Can you guide me in the right direction please? thanks