The following is a growing list of WordPress help, advice, tips, techniques, and resources for students covering:
- WordPress News
- Where to Find WordPress Help and Information
- Getting Started with WordPress
- Publishing with WordPress
- WordPress Themes
- WordPress Code: Under the Hood
- WordPress Events and WordCamps
- Copyright and Plagiarism
- WordPress Jobs
- About WordPress
- Unofficial But Exceptional WordPress Resources
WordPress News
The following are the key sources for official information about WordPress, WordPress.com, and Automattic.
- WordPress News
- WordPress Planet (official WordPress feed)
- Planet WordPress (unofficial WordPress feed)
- WordPress.tv
- WordPress.com News
- WordPress Theme Directory
- WordPress Plugin Directory
- WordPress Trac: Timeline (feed showing WordPress core development)
- Automattic
- BuddyPress
- PollDaddy
- Gravatar (universal avatar image service and profile service for WordPress.com)
- WordPress Publisher Blog (shows off what companies are doing with WordPress)
Where to Find WordPress Help and Information
The following are resources to find official help from WordPress, with tips on how to maximize that help.
- WordPress Codex
- New To WordPress – Where to Start
- First Steps With WordPress
- Finding WordPress Help « WordPress Codex
- Learn WordPress
- WordPress Features
- Using the Support Forums « WordPress Codex
- FAQ « WordPress Codex
- WordPress Support Forums
- WordPress.com Forums
- Download WordPress
Getting Started with WordPress
- New To WordPress – Where to Start
- First Steps With WordPress
- WordPress Semantics
- WordPress Glossary
- WordPress Lessons
- A Guide to the WordPress Codex, The Online Manual for WordPress Users
- Introduction to Blogging
- The Famous 5 Minute WordPress Installation
- Customizing Your Sidebar
- Using WordPress Plugins
- Administering Your WordPress Blog
- WordPress Administration Panels
- Using Permalinks
- WordPress Links/Blogroll
- WordPress Feeds
- What can you do with wordpress.com – Lorelle on WordPress
- WordPress Installation Checklist – Anmari
- Collection of WordPress Videos Found on YouTube
- 15 Point Checklist: WordPress Start-Up Guide After Installation
- Top Collection Of WordPress Tutorials On The Web — Nerdy Geeks
- Powerful guide to master Your WordPress – Noupe
- Learning WordPress: Most Useful Tips and Tutorials – Smashing Magazine
Publishing with WordPress
- How To Write Your First WordPress Post
- Creating and Using Posts
- Linking Posts, Pages, and Categories
- Understanding Pages in WordPress
- How to Write an About Page
- Creating a Photoblog or Photo Gallery with WordPress
- Embeds – WordPress Codex
- Writing Code in Your Posts
- How to: Display Post Attachments in WordPress – Theme.fm
- Embedding Code in WordPress Posts – Theme.fm
- Mastering WordPress Shortcodes – Smashing WordPress
- Blogger’s to do checklist before hitting the publish button – Jennifer Slegg
- How to Change Private and Protected Posts Prefix in WordPress
- How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress
- How to display a thumbnail from a YouTube using a shortcode – WPRecipes
- How to modify size of embedded videos – WPRecipes
- How to retrieve a remote page using WordPress – WPRecipes
- How To: Upload Media via URL Programmatically in WordPress – Theme.fm
WordPress Themes
- Using WordPress Themes
- Finding Your CSS Styles
- WordPress CSS Information and Techniques
- WordPress Theme Development
- WordPress Child Themes
- Stepping Into WordPress Templates
- WordPress Template files
- The WordPress Category Template
- Designing and Understanding the WordPress Header Art
- WordPress Blog Design and Layout
- “I Make Changes and Nothing Happens”
WordPress Code: Under the Hood
WordPress Events and WordCamps
- WordCamp Central
- WordPress Meetups feed calendar
- WordPress Upcoming: Event search for “wordpress” (feed)
Copyright and Plagiarism
- Plagiarism Today Information, Resources, and Podcast
- What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
- Finding Stolen Content and Copyright Infringements
- The Growing Trends in Content Theft: Image Theft, Feed Scraping, and Website Hijacking
WordPress Jobs
The following are online job services with a large number of WordPress-specific jobs. The jobs include fixing and tweaking website design issues in WordPress Themes, creating custom WordPress Theme designs, coding, writing WordPress Plugins, customizing scripts and adding functionally, installing and maintaining WordPress sites, database manipulation, and a lot more. Skills required range from basic web design to complex PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX and beyond. The jobs are contract, freelance, one-time, part-time, and full-time.
This list is not an endorsement or recommendation. Please read through their terms of service for your own protection.
- WordPress Jobs
- Customyze.me
- 37 Signals WordPress jobs.
- Freelance Jobs for WordPress – FreelanceSwitch
- All Jobs – Smashing Jobs
- WooJobs
- WordPress Projects – SitePoint Market
- Authentic Jobs ~ WordPress Jobs
- WordPress Jobs at Behance.net
- WordPress Jobs at Freelancer Design and Development
- Get-a-Coder WordPress Jobs
- WordPress Freelance Jobs on Guru
- Krop – Design Jobs: Creative & Tech
- WordPress Jobs – Sensational Jobs
- WordPress Jobs | Simply Hired
- WordPress jobs and WordPress job vacancies | WPhired
- WordPress Jobs at Elance
- ODesk
About WordPress
- About WordPress – WordPress Codex
- Which Blogging Platform Should You Use? (Infographic)
- What is a WordCamp and Why You Should Attend? [Infographic]
- Self Hosted WordPress.org vs. Free WordPress.com [Infograph]
- Should I Move To WordPress? [infographic] – Right Mix Marketing
- Writing WordPress Guides For The Advanced Beginner
- Which Open Source Backend Platform Suits Your Needs (Infographic)
- WordPress Usage Within the Top 100K Internet Sites (Infographic) – HackerTarget.com
- WordPress Google Project Hosting
- GSoC2011 – WordPress Codex
Unofficial But Exceptional WordPress Resources
The following are bloggers covering WordPress extensively. It might not be the only thing they cover, but they specialize in offer extensive WordPress tips, advice, techniques, and how-tos. They are deserving to be in your feed reader for WordPress.
- Lorelle on WordPress
- Digging into WordPress
- Justin Tadlock
- Konstruktors
- Konstantin Kovshenin
- Otto on WordPress
- Perishable Press
- sillybean.net
- Theme.fm
- ThemeShaper
- Weblog Tools Collection
- WordPress Alltop RSS (feed aggregator – contains non-WordPress stuff, too)
- Smashing Magazine – WordPress
- WPCandy
- WP Dude
- WPEngineer
- Hack WordPress
- CatsWhoCode
- Vladimir Prelovac
- Press Coders
- Viper007Bond
- WordPress for Beginners
- WP Recipes
- WordPress Tavern
- Yoast’s WordPress Blog
- WordPress – Tuts+ Code Category
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