WordPress Lessons Summary

We hope the WordPress Lessons will enhance a user's WordPress experience, not by replacing the technical documentation of the program, but explaining, in the most simple of terms, how to put that technical documentation into action on their site. Ideas for Lessons come from the WordPress Forums and personal experience of overcoming a challenge. If you are interested in submitting a WordPress Lesson, please add a link to your Codex User Page with a summary of your intent, and post the Lesson on a subpage of your User Page for review. We also recommend that you let us know of your intent and invite you to ask questions on the WordPress Documentation Mailing List.

We are fairly lenient in what represents a "WordPress Lesson", but we do ask that the following criteria be met:

• The Lesson affects the majority of WordPress Users.
• The Lesson applies to WordPress v1.5+.
• The Lesson highlights WordPress default features, templates, template tags, Loop, and built-in functions.
• The Lesson does not highlight or prominently feature plugins or hacks, though they may be used as examples beyond the built-in functions.
• The author of the Lesson is invisible. (Avoid "I did this" and use "You can do this")

The criteria is subject to change and all Lessons are subject to review and approval by the WordPress Documentation Team and must meet the Codex Guidelines.

We look forward to your submissions, ideas, tips, and techniques, and the knowledge that your contribution will help WordPress users overcome their anxiety and fear about using the program.

Thanks, Lorelle 13:52, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Keep WordPress Lessons in Lessons

WordPress Lessons were written to be related to but "apart" from the normal documentation of the WordPress Codex. They are written with the voice of a WordPress volunteer sitting next to the WordPress user guiding them through the process, step-by-step, rather than just offering a technical how-to.

These are the tutorials within the Codex and they need to stay within this section. Article links can be made from other Table of Contents and articles within the Codex, but please do not remove any links to the WordPress Lessons articles from the WordPress Lessons Table of Contents. We need one place where people can come to find all the articles to help them learn to use WordPress that is not intimidating.

Thank you and let's work on including more of these open and friendly articles to support the more technical manual documentation on the WordPress Codex.

Lorelle 00:59, 13 Mar 2007 (UTC)

Lessons Wanted

The following is a list of WordPress Lessons currently seeking content. If you would like to tackle one of these subjects, please "sign up" after the title with a link to your User Page created by putting 4 tildes (~) after the title, which inserts your User Name and a link to your User Page. This helps us avoid the confusion of having three people working on the same initial submission.

Features and Functions

• Auto-Approving Administrator Comments
• Permalinks Explored
• Power Search on Your Site (adding advanced and custom search techniques)
• Customizing Your Feeds
• Absolute and Relative Paths (how to link to graphics and other web pages within the WordPress site and explaining why graphics sometimes don't appear in the editing preview panel)

Templates

• Comments Layout
• Creating a Search Page
• Creating an Error 404 Page Reportica 17:10, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Working With Includes
• Create Custom Template Files
• Display Your Plugins
• Creating a Site Map

WordPress Tech

• Finding Server Info
• Converting HTML to XML (Intro to meet WordPress standards)

Website Development

• Keywords in WordPress
• Search Engines and WordPress
• Connecting Blogs - Blogrolls
• Understanding Feeds

Correction Needed?

One of the section headings reads "Stying the Code" - I think this should be "Styling the Code", but I'm not sure, so I didn't change it. (Isn't a stye something you get in your eye? :) ) BruceWebber 02:50, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the catch! And things like that you can fix, just do it carefully as the code in these particular pages are fairly complex. The rest of the Codex isn't as picky. Thanks! Lorelle 03:04, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)