I was a newbie to WordPress three years ago and I had little or no technical experience at the time. In a nutshell, I made a lot of mistakes using WordPress my first year, but my knowledge has grown exponentially since then I work in WordPress everything. For people just starting out and trying to use WordPress for a small business, startup or blog, I think there is a lot of misunderstanding out there about how to use WordPress, how to get over the fear of using WordPress and what the expectations should be.<\/p>\n
\n- I want to talk about my background and how I went from someone with no technical experience and being quite fearful of using WordPress to someone that is relatively fluent in it.<\/li>\n
- Have realistic expectations of using WordPress. A lot of people just think you upload a theme and you are done. I want people to understand that WordPress makes the process of setting up a site faster, but there a lot of things that need to be done and it takes time to build up traffic.<\/li>\n
- Do’s and Don’ts when setting up a WordPress site for your startup, business, blog, etc.<\/li>\n
- Present useful websites, resources for newbies to WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was a newbie to WordPress three years ago and I had little or no technical experience at the time. In a nutshell, I made a lot of mistakes using WordPress my first year, but my knowledge has grown exponentially … Continue reading Taking a Realistic Approach to Starting out in WordPress<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13658935,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1479583800,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[437],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[5049],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-438","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-brand-content-ui"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7r8Lt-74","session_date_time":{"date":"November 19, 2016","time":"2:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"437","slug":"james-soller","name":"James Soller","link":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/james-soller\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/438\/revisions\/719"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/437"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jimmyesl"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baltimore.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}