Flexible, adaptable, and very well supported, WordPress is an amazing CMS. Guiding you through installation, setup, accounts, themes, security and much more, this is a comprehensive book to get up and running with WordPress in a week.

Your First Week With WordPress

One in five sites on the web today are powered by WordPress. It’s a huge ecosystem with themes, plugins, and a helpful and dedicated community.

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Preface

So you've decided to run a WordPress site but have no idea where to start? This tutorial is aimed at absolute beginners. Some IT knowledge will help but I presume you want to learn the essentials within a few hours. Let's get started.

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up &amp; Running a WordPress Site

This article was originally published by Torque Magazine , and is reproduced here with permission.

A Simple Guide to WordPress Starter Themes

It’s common for WordPress users to pick a ready-made theme. But you can also create a theme of your own. This article covers various ways to go about this.

Three Ways to Create Your Own WordPress Theme

There are differences between WordPress posts and pages . There are times when a post is more suitable to use, while for other types of content, a page is more appropriate. In this article, I’ll cover what pages are and why they are different to posts. I’ll then show you how to manage pages on a WordPress website. Finally, we’ll take a look at some functions in the WordPress Pages API and have a play with pages.

Understanding WordPress Pages and the Pages API

This article on how to back up WordPress remotely was originally published by Torque Magazine , and is reproduced here with permission.

How to Easily Back Up WordPress Remotely: A Step-by-step Guide

This article on WordPress site performance is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround . Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.

10 Steps for Optimizing WordPress Site Performance

This article on fixing WordPress security issues was originally published by Torque Magazine , and is reproduced here with permission.

Top 10 Tips to Fix Most Common WordPress Security Issues

WordPress is used by millions of people right around the world to setup websites for a variety of applications. While it’s popular because it’s easy to get up and running and use, it still requires proper optimization in order to really improve your overall search engine rankings.

The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO

When a site isn’t working the way it’s intended to, I’m sure you’ve asked yourself — “Should I clear the cache?”

A Guide to Caching in WordPress

This article on lazy loading for WordPress was originally published by Torque Magazine , and is reproduced here with permission.

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