Learning WordPress

Introduction to WordPress Basics

Nice, clear help pages for people who are using WordPress to add and edit blog posts or website content. ...

the_content v the_excerpt

Which function is the simplest and most versatile when you want to include extracts rather than entire posts on pages? ...

Extracts or Whole Posts?

I want to explore whether to show whole posts or selected extracts of posts. This applies to what I shall call a Group page - any page which shows a set of posts rather than a single post (Category pages or Archive pages or the Blog index page). ...

Now We’re Rolling

Having dug into the documentation and solved some mysteries regarding the header of the Default theme and the version of code used in the Connections theme, I've made a lot of progress with that list of early first steps. ...

A Learning Leap

I've dug more deeply into the WordPress code and documentation and I've learned the importance of knowing which version you are reading about v which version you are using ...