WordPress 101: A beginner’s guide to WordPress

By request, here’s my presentation from WordCampRDU 2009.

It takes more than a day to build a rock wall. You don’t want to finish each day’s work with a smooth edge, otherwise the final result will be a series of adjacent rock walls rather than one integrated wall. So at the end of each day, you leave rugged “toothing stones” for two reasons. It marks where you will pick up when you continue your work the next day. It also creates the uneven surface to which tomorrow’s section will bond, linking today’s work and tomorrow’s.

My presentation concludes with three toothing stones: themes, plugins, and widgets. I was tasked with giving a 45 minute introduction to WordPress, so rather than try to cover everything WordPress is capable of, I chose to lay groundwork for a greater understanding. I hope the conference participants were (are) able to gain a foothold in the WordPress universe.

WordPress 101 makes the most sense when viewed in conjunction with the other presentations given today at WordCamp, and the toothing stones help make the learning experience more whole.

Other presenters include:

Posted on June 13, 2009 
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