WordPress For Beginners
If you’ve ever considered blogging, WordPress is the way to go!
I’ve spent over two years figuring WordPress out, and my first training video called “WordPress For Beginners, Part 1″ has been viewed almost 85,000 times on YouTube.
The problem is that most “experts” just can’t “dumb it down” for the beginner. Because I was a true beginner once myself, I know what you’re looking for when it comes to getting started with WordPress!
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After scouring the web for help with learning WP I found too many to count. Most were complicated and often more confusing than helpful. The Guy’s tutorials are simple and useful. I’ve already signed up for alerts for new ones. Thanx Guy!
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Video was great. Now I know how to put a youtube video on my site. Site not done yet but working on it and have watch all your WordPress videos. Waiting for how to adjust the size in WordPress.
Thanks for the videos
Ralph
This wordpress tutorial was really simply, useful and helpful. Thanks a lot! Hope to keep watching great tutorials made from you. Thanks.
I’m just about to start a word press blog/website and will need lots of help so, more of the above ‘stuff’ pleas!! .. guy from Erie, you’re the best!!
Hello,
Im new with wordpress and I watched your video, it’s really helpful and really simple and useful as well. Where can i find the tutorial video about Plug ins, gadgets and widgets on your website?
Thanks,
Jill
G’day Phil,
Great tutorials, easy to follow and good practical examples.
Look forward to more.
Cheers
David
“Hi Phil:
I am learning all about Internet Marketing and am trying to understand the use of WordPress in designing a website from a template or building it from scratch. I have one specific question I can’t seem to find the answer to, and wondered if you might know. I am starting to help a friend with a band that is really starting to go places. We are starting with the redesign of the website, and he says a woman has been working on this for them (not live yet) who seems to always tell him no when he wants something customized. For example, he wanted to list the band members but not in alphabetical order but by job importance to the group, meaning, he wanted the director first, although he comes later in the alphabet. She said she couldn’t do it due to the limitations of the template, but later got it done. Do all the WP website templates have the same limitations, or does each template have its own limitations? This is a template question, not a complete design from scratch site.
I’ve gotten through your first tutorial, and it really does start from scratch, which I really appreciate. So many explanations jump right into strategies (I get all that-I’m a old marketer) but really do leave out first things first. I will be watching your successive tutorials but the above question would explain a lot to me. Thanks so much.”
Hi Bonnie,
It has been my experience thus far with WordPress that the templates do kind of limit you to making it function as a website. In the end, WordPress was setup as – and still is – a blogging format.
There are some tricks to getting things arranged in a particular order, sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.
As I said in my first tutorial, WordPress is a great content management system (CMS) as in automatically filing your posts in order and into categories that you create.
It’s very tempting to want to use WP as a website because the look is so clean, but I’ve tried to do it and it still ends up looking like a blog because after each post there’s a “comment” link…some themes let you turn that off, some don’t.
There are so many templates out there to try and there might be some that will do what you want them to do in this case. Here’s one I tried for a client but it still looks like a blog because at the end it says “Posted on…” http://www.lisapustelak.com/blog/
The one theme that I have never tried – it costs about $80 – is the “Thesis” theme which is supposed be very customizable.
In the end, it’s much easier and cheaper for me to put up a simple html website for a client than to try and make a blog look like a website. A really good developer who can work with .php files might find it easier to do…but since websites in general don’t change from day to day I find it easier to just build it from scratch and put things where I want them. If I’m going to change stuff every day and still want people to find the old stuff, than WordPress is better because it will catalogue the contents for you.
Hope this helps!
Phil Kerner
really appreciate the time and simplicity (laymans terms) used to explain….keep it up!!
Thumbs up for your tutorials. Just finished watching 2nd part n’ going to watch the 3rd part now. I love em all. Really cool, informative and easy to learn. Its all fund and you are a great teacher. I’ll subscribe your channel now. Please keep making new tutorials regularly.
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Thanks,
Hey Phil, like everyone else…..
…your teaching style and demeanour is friendly and fun.
I’ve watched 2 of your videos and they are great. Very helpful.
I can see why so many people appreciate your style – tutorials.
Your wife and you are an attractive couple. (Nope…I’m not gay) You guys look like … Richard Gere and a hotter version of the “mom” on the TV series “Sons of Anarchy.”
By the way…you should grab this domain, b4 somebody snaps it up….with the intention of grabbing free traffic off of your efforts.
Thatguyfromerie
This line below…had me chuckling!
“Venice Beach on Sunday afternoon. Finally, a place with a very nice selection of nose rings.”
Keep up the great work Phil,
Gord