WordPress development involves PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, MySQL – but what if you don’t know what any of this even means yet? Where do you go to learn WordPress if you’re still a beginner?
This week, we look at WordPress for beginners. We have covered tons of resources for learning WordPress as a complete beginner.
 
Our WordPress panel this week:
 
Bridget Willard: https://bridgetwillard.com/
Kim Shivler: https://whiteglovewebtraining.com/
Jonathan Denwood: https://www.wp-tonic.com/
John Locke: Lockedown SEO
 
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Table of Contents for Episode 180
 
0:00 Podcast intros.
2:32 WordPress News story #1: WordPress Plugin Directory Redesign: Why So Many People Feel Their Feedback Was Ignored
12:05 WordPress News story #2: What motivates WordPress spammers?
In-Depth Analysis of a Criminal Organization Targeting WordPress Websites
30:48 Main Topic: Learning WordPress as a Beginner
30:58 "If you want to be useful to WordPress, you have to know how to build websites without WordPress". - Quote by @mor10
36:09 Getting people comfortable with WordPress before throwing them in deeper water. How Bridget used immersion techniques to learn WordPress.
42:11 Why aren't there more apprenticeships in web development?
43:37 Resources for learning WordPress.
1:07:05 Podcast outros
 
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Links mentioned during the show:
 
Give - A WordPress Donation Plugin
Treehouse
CSS-Tricks
WPShout - Up and Running
W3Schools
Digging Into WordPress
WordPress Training and Tutorials on Lynda.com
Designing with Web Standards
The #ASKGARYVEE Audiobook Ch. #17: Self Awareness
The WP Crowd
WPwatercooler
WordPress Essentials Course – (Online starting April 19th, 2017)
Flexbox Froggy
Hello Dolly
WP Beginner
WP101
WordPress Codex
Wor...

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