Best WordPress tutorials to learn how to build and manage your WP site

If you’re using WordPress, you’re in good company. It does come with a learning curve, but overall, it’s quite intuitive and easy to understand.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have become so popular (handling ~ 30% of the Internet).

Even if you have a developer building the WP site for you, you should learn how WordPress works and how to manage the site content in the future.

This is a short curated list of good introductory (and free!) WordPress resources for beginners:

WordPress

• Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to WordPress
• Ultimate Guide: How to Make a Website in 2018 – Step by Step Guide
• WordPress Lessons (on the official WP codex site)
• WordPress How-To for beginners
• A WordPress Tutorial for Beginners: Create Your First Site in 10 Steps
• WordPress Basics on LevelUp (video tutorials)
• 10 of the best WordPress YouTube channels
• Learn WordPress – How to guides, articles & techniques

Yoast SEO

• How to Install and Setup WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast
• Blogging as a Photographer: Yoast SEO Plugin Tutorial
• WordPress SEO – The definitive guide to higher rankings for WordPress sites

WPBakery Page Builder (aka Visual Composer)

• WPBakery Page Builder > Video Tutorials Academy
• Visual Composer Tutorials 2018 – YouTube playlist by WPTuts

Other tutorials

• 25 brilliant WordPress tutorials
• How to Install Google Analytics in WordPress for Beginners
• How to make your WordPress website multilingual
• Best WordPress tutorials (category on WPBeginner)
• Tutorials (category on wpmudev)

Paid courses tutorials

If you want to go more in-depth, or you’re looking for more structured video tutorials, check out these paid resources:

• My detailed blogging course for photographers
• WordPress Essential Training (Lynda.com course, requires $19/mo subscription)
• WordPress 101 course ($24)
• WordPress for Beginners – Master WordPress Quickly (Udemy course, $20-$30 depending on current discounts)
• WP Apprentice courses ($47 – $147)

So if you’re lacking in WordPress skills, these resources should help you learn the basics. Even if you have a web-designer helping set up your site, it’s still a good idea to know how to manage content yourself in the future.