What’s the best way to learn WordPress?

As with anything unfamiliar, the best way to start learning WordPress is to start simple.

If you are starting from absolutely Square One then don’t expect to leap straight into Square Nine! On the contrary, start at the beginning and progress step by step, one step at a time.

If you are a newbie, or you have no prior blogging experience, you might find the first two or three steps to be quite a steep learning curve. But the good news is that the curve soon flattens out and you begin, quite quickly, to ‘get it’. Just stick with the first few unfamiliar steps and you’ll soon be up and running.

Trust me, once you become familiar with the WordPress environment you’ll find it easy to explore and experiment and find your own way round.

If you have big ambitions about your blog, particularly if you want to use your blog to make money, you should be planning to go the WordPress.org route where you hang your blog on your own domain.

But, use the WordPress.com free blogging option as your practice ground. Learn the ropes first: practice, experiment and learn. Then when you’re comfortable with WordPress.com, then you can upgrade to WordPress.org.

Ready to begin? Check out my free WordPress tutorial to get you started on WordPress.com now!