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Welcome to WordPress.com: Beginner Resources August 15, 2006

Posted by LearningNerd in Blogging, Blogging 101, WordPress.com.
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WordPress.com’s administration panel looked simple enough, but I wasn’t quite sure what everything did. No worries, though: I found a helpful community and more documentation than I could read.

Video Introduction to WordPress

These flash videos from edublogs.org helped me get a feel for WordPress. (The British accent was also a plus.)

Official WordPress Resources

Definitely worth bookmarking, these sites answer every question you can think of.

WordPress Blogs

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If you know of any other useful resources, be sure to tell me!

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1. drmike - August 15, 2006

Greets:

We do *NOT* want to be sending folks over to the WP.org forums. Different software than what we run here at WP.com and they send folks back to the WP.com forums anyway.

Thanks,
-drmike
WordPress.com Support Forums Moderator

2. learningnerd - August 15, 2006

Just removed that link. Thanks for telling me!

3. timethief - August 16, 2006

This is a great post to send “newbies” to. I particularly enjoyed the videos which I didn’t even know existed. Thanks for your work. :D

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