WordPress Beginner – What’s hard for me

Posted by Wonder

October 7, 2008

The most difficult thing for me as a WordPress beginner is finding the place inside the admin panel when you configure or modify each aspect of your blog. I believe almost everything can be done from there if you know where to find it.

I’ve hand coded most of my sites almost since my first site in 2001 so this almost seems like “doing it the hard way” to me.

Right now, I’m having trouble configuring my multi-level navigation plugin. I’m pretty sure it’s not their fault and part of the problem may be that I simply don’t have the pages inside WordPress that I’m trying to link to. Looks pretty funky right now though.

The arrows don't mean you can go up

I’ve also been told that I chose the wrong theme for a beginner. This may be true but I’d rather “fight than switch”.

This is a bit off topic but not really as the theme you choose might be very different from one niche to another.

My friend Yan writes about choosing a niche for your blog. In any case, it’s one of the best blog posts I’ve read for awhile. Back to my friend Yan’s blog.

Just in case you’re wondering, having a local install does help. I’m doing a lot of stuff “live” by choice.

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