I’ve noticed a lot of my regular reads making the switch to Wordpress recently, and have indeed helped a few to get started which is great.
Therefore I thought it might be useful to link up to a few useful resources for the new Wordpress user. First, some of my posts:
- Google Sitemaps - The easiest way is to use the plugin described here. Get indexed by Google faster.
- How to Upgrade Your Wordpress blog - This is the manual way to do it. If your host offers ‘Fantastico’ then it only takes one click!
- How To Install Filezilla-& why - How to use an FTP program to upload plugins and themes to your blog.
- Favourite Wordpress Plugins -Part 1 and Part 2 - Some of my favourite plugins to enhance your WP blog.
- How to do a 301 re-direct and why. - Don’t dilute your pagerank!
- Make simple format changes with CSS - Make colour changes to your template and more.
- The Related Posts plugin - How to install this very useful plugin.
- Time Stamping - Post backwards and forwards in time….
Moving away from my blog, there are obviously loads of hints & tips out there. One of the best sources of WordPress info is Lorelle, and some good ones from her include:
Some other quick links:
Blogging Pro: Just about everything WordPress.
Weblog Tools Collection: A link from your WP dashboard (which probably means you just ignore it) but absolutely full of new themes, plugins and all the latest WP news.
PhotoMatt: The man who started it all 
I hope this post proves useful to the new WordPress user, but if you need more assistance just let me know
12 users commented in " Getting Going With Wordpress "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackExcellent set of links! .. Thanks for that!
I have been putting it off, but if you are going to make it so darn easy…I guess I will have to switch. I have been trying to decide which host to go with. Any opinions on that? Thank you so much for doing this post. I will have to refer to it again and again.
Yep, a hefty list of great links indeed.
Nice work Chris.
Cheers guys! (and Vinod for the Stumble).
Oh I have opinions on hosts Webduck…. I shall send you a mail.
Thanks for this info.. I will be needing it soon.
http://goldcoaster.wordpress.com
Wow! Just what I needed! However did you know??
I need to get going on it, but have been blinded by the sheer number of themes, lol.
it is a great list Chris, it would be helpful for me when i decided to switch to wp later
WordPress is best
I am going to try out Google Sitemaps .
Cool, you won’t believe how much faster your posts get indexed.
Hi,
I like your favourite Wordpress plugins. Being relatively new to wordpress, you just don’t realise the full capabilities of what you can do with the program. Thanks
thanks for visiting Tara, I don’t think I’ve seen half of what it can do yet….
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