Best way to learn wordpress

Chimp Paradox · 3 Jan 2015 at 06:44

I am using .org for the blog part of my site. Can anyone make any recommendations where I can learn it (plus some basic html most likely).

THanks

antijoke · 3 Jan 2015 at 08:59

What are you trying to do exactly?

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jan 2015 at 10:33

Play and learn yourself. Ask yourself what is it you want to learn and just do it yourself.

Chimp Paradox · 3 Jan 2015 at 12:18

Www.pauldoranpictures.com

Its my website for my photography but I'm adding a blog to it

radderfire · 3 Jan 2015 at 12:34

I'm sure people will help you here, but other resources you can try are:

Web design help:

http://www.webref.eu/web-design-forums.php

PHP tutorials:

http://www.webref.eu/php-tutorials.php

You might also find some instructions from your web host. They might even have an online tool for installing Wordpress on your site.

Rgds

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jan 2015 at 12:35

Chimp Paradox said:
Www.pauldoranpictures.com

Its my website for my photography but I'm adding a blog to it

So what is it about it that you want to learn?

Pvt_Ryan · 3 Jan 2015 at 13:38

Setup a vm in virtualbox and play with it..

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jan 2015 at 13:53

Pvt_Ryan said:
Setup a vm in virtualbox and play with it..

That's what she says

Vegeta · 3 Jan 2015 at 13:58

Youtube and play around learning wordpress isn't hard it's any extra coding that's the difficult part if trying to modify themes etc.

Chimp Paradox · 3 Jan 2015 at 17:41

As you can see from my site its already installed and hosted, would just like to have a more sophisticated understandibg of html and the things I need to know to do some basic code editing and the way the "geography" fits together

welshdragon · 3 Jan 2015 at 18:02

Team Treehouse?

spenncerr · 3 Jan 2015 at 21:38

I would suggest not displaying the blog within an iFrame for one.

How is it you've setup this wordpress blog?

Pvt_Ryan · 3 Jan 2015 at 21:58

mrbell1984 said:
That's what she says

If only she did, then we would share an interest..

Chimp Paradox · 4 Jan 2015 at 08:00

spenncerr said:
I would suggest not displaying the blog within an iFrame for one.

How is it you've setup this wordpress blog?

Its through .com and its hosted via flywheel. I have heard other people saying dont use iframes, but there is no SEO downside so I dont see what the problem is? Mobile version displays fine too

Pvt_Ryan · 5 Jan 2015 at 18:36

Here you go hope it helps:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23178505/good-reasons-why-not-to-use-iframes-in-page-content

Chimp Paradox · 5 Jan 2015 at 19:21

its a myth its bad for seo

touch · 5 Jan 2015 at 19:35

Chimp Paradox said:
its a myth its bad for seo

It's not a myth.

It's not as bad as it used to be, where content inside iframes was completely ignored. I think google can now index content inside - as long as it's on the same TLD.
Just because it can be indexed, doesnt mean it's a good thing to do.

Using your own site as an example, if i search for:
"November 19, 2014 by [email protected]"
The first result is http://blog.pauldoranpictures.com/
Not http://pauldoranpictures.com/Blog as you would want it to be.

By using an iframe, you're also limiting yourself to 1 url ("http://pauldoranpictures.com/Blog"). You cant visit that page and load a specific page inside the iframe (without a lot more code).
On a normal blog, you can hit search results for each of your blog posts, your category pages, user's posts pages, tagged posts pages. Your site only has 1 page to get hit in search results.

Chimp Paradox · 6 Jan 2015 at 06:52

my understanding is that the tie up doesnt matter - because the blog is in a a different site to the main one - so each blog post will have its only url?

touch · 6 Jan 2015 at 08:47

Yes each blog post has it's own url but when your blog post urls show up in the search results they link directly to the blog site not the blog page of your main site.
You're effectively competing against yourself. Any links in the search results to blog.pauldoran.com are going to take visitors away from pauldoran.com. The main site is where you have the portfolio, about and contact pages, so that's where you want visitors to go.