Contents
Awesome References
- Easy WP Guide
- WordPress Codex (official documentation)
- WordPress Quick Guide
Video Resources
Recommended Articles
- Beginning with WordPress series
- Choosing between WP.com & WP.org (part 1 of Beginning with WordPress)
- Guide to free WordPress themes
Installing WordPress
- Installing WordPress (official docs)
- Installing WordPress on shared hosting
- Installing WordPress Manually (part 3 of Beginning with WordPress)
- Install WordPress on Siteground
Installing WordPress on your computer
You can install WordPress on your desktop or laptop computer for testing purposes. If you want the website to be live to the public you need to move it to a web host.
- Installing WordPress with ServerPress DesktopServer DesktopServer is available for Windows & Mac to run WordPress on your computer. It comes with the WordPress files and is free for 1 WordPress site. A paid Pro version is available for multiple sites & extra features.
- Installing WordPress on Windows with XAMPP XAMPP creates an environment like a web server on your computer on which you can install WordPress, and any other type of HTML & PHP website.
- Installing WordPress on Mac OS with MAMP MAMP creates an environment like a web server on your computer on which you can install WordPress, and any other type of HTML & PHP website.
Moving WordPress
- How to move WordPress
- WP Migrate DB plugin
You could use this to skip several steps in the tutorial above. - Duplicator plugin
- WordPress Move plugin
- BackupBuddy
Website Hosting
There is a slight SEO benefit for Australia-specific websites to be physically hosted in Australia, as well as the benefit of a local support team. However, support packages vary greatly between companies, and there is often a financial benefit to hosting in the US. These are some hosts that I, or others I know, have found to be helpful.
Australia
USA
Theme Shops/Clubs
- WordPress.org Many free themes are available via WordPress.org
- StudioPress Great selection of child themes, many are responsive, large community & good support
- WooThemes Particularly good for e-commerce with the WooCommerce plugin, good support options
- Hybrid
- Elegant Themes Not as highly recommended as StudioPress & WooThemes, but good for more limited budgets and the themes often have more built-in options (too many options for some)
- Theme Forest Some themes are excellent, many are bulky and confusing with functionality that would be better suited to plugins than built into the theme, but the store is worth knowing about
Image Resources
Code References & Learning Resource
- HTML Dog
Good references and tutorials for HTML, CSS and JavaScript - CSS Tricks
Blog, reference (almanac), videos & more - Codecademy
- Treehouse
