Glad your blog is up and running. Nice work.

Frank

Within hours of receiving your course material, my blog was up and running in a self-hosted environment.

I have since added some new features to suit my needs and have even used your guidance to get into the coding itself, something I was not really excited about doing when I first started this project.

I think your documentation is a great value, actually I have paid a lot more for self-paced courses that are not nearly as through as yours. I am very pleased with my purchase and encourage any do-it-yourselfers to take advantage of your product.

Frank

Your six chapter “Understanding WordPress,” helped me to resolve several problems in setting-up my WP blogs. I had bogged down trying to use Codex and Lynda.com lessons keyed to various versions of WP (my Yahoo Host likes to stay several editions behind the curve). I had decided to give-up and start anew, when I got your six chapters by e-mail.

I printed them all, put them into a binder and Lo! the scales were lifted from my eyes. I saw clearly how to work-through my half-implemented WP blog without throwing away any of my old work. This blog is an important extension of our floral design business website, therefore, handling of images and text wrapping were critical.

Thanks to your “Understanding WordPress” It works! Also, this blog, photos and all, is the primary feed to our FaceBook page, Yukiko’s Floral Design Studio. It works!
Thank you

Hi, sure you can link one blog to another website or blog. It depends on a few things such as if how you want them to be linked, whether it be from a menu option or regular hyperlink or if they share some content or layout.

Yes, you can buy a GoDaddy domain and buy a hosting account and use that domain for your WordPress site very easily.

Any othoer questions let me know.

Thanks.

Sorry, the link is fixed. If you have any questions about the lessons let me know.

Thanks,
Frank

View the complete first lesson (.pdf) to give you an idea of how topics are covered.

I wanted to see a sample of your lesson if possible. Can you reset?

Thanks!

Andrea

WordPress is very good at making sure you don’t lose any content when you upgrade to a new version. But as always you should always backup your blog, before any type of upgrade or move of your site.

A great backup plugin is Wp-DB-Backup

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

Of course you can manually back up your WP database using phpMyAdmin, but that can be tricky for non-technical users.

A great guide on backing up your WP site can be found here on the codex:

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

If you have any specific questions let me know.

Frank

Troubleshooting is normally different for each instance dealing with webhosts and WordPress, but I’d be happy to take a quick look at your host setup and let you know what I see.

Frank

Do you mean how to install an e-commerce plugin for WordPress? If so, there are a few good plugins for WP that I can show you.

Here are a few (some are free, some are not)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/

http://www.phpurchase.com/

I don’t have a lesson on how to set one up specifically, but if you have any questions let me know.

Frank

Creating a homepage? Do you mean create a website? I am guessing you are referring to create a website that has the same look and feel as an existing website you have? I hae never used Joomla but it is more similiar to Drupal than WordPress. As far as themes go, WordPress has many themes to choose from, but no matter what you choose you still will need to modify it slightly at least. The same goes for Joomla or Drupal or any other CMS you may use.

WordPress is a blogging tool, as well as a simple, easy to use CMS (Content Management System), it is not as robust as Joomla or Drupal but it depends on the complexity of the website you want to create.

Hope that helps.

Frank

I have one questionn. You will teach a class introduction to worldpress the 23rd of may at, http://iwa-hwg.eclasses.org/courseB129/. The question I have is that it only mentions blogging but I am mostly interested in creating a homepage which may be very símilar, or not? Is this course then appropriate for creating a homepage? Or is Joomla then a better tool to use? I only want to create a simle homepage but with many pictures on it since I will display all my photo projects there. I am also concerned about a nice layout but I can use themes instead of creating my on layout. I hope you understand my questions?

Best Regards,
Fredrik

Just like the sample first lesson that is given, all lessons (6) are written in PDF format.

Frank

I already have several WP-based web sites, but have trouble organizing my files on HostGator (without losing track of them). I’m also challenged by regular site backup. Recently, I updated my WP version and had to have HostGator disable my plug-ins, which I now cannot enable. Would your troubleshooting segment in the intermediate WP course advise me of how to take care of such issues? Thank you!

-Halina

I don’t have specific instructions on how to link to Facebook since that is more HTML understanding than WordPress, but that is easy to setup. I’d be more than happy to show you how on your WordPress site.

Frank