This series of posts for people who are new to blogging and WordPress explains how to get started, what a theme is, and how to choose a theme. It explains pages, posts, and categories from the perspective of choosing a theme.
If you're just getting started with WordPress, one of the trickiest decisions to make is what theme you want to use.
If you’re new to blogging, you may feel overwhelmed by the options, decisions, and learning curve involved. Here's the scoop.
Pages, posts, and categories—these are the basic building blocks of your blog. Once you understand them, everything else pretty much falls into place.
You're probably familiar with most of these terms, but since we're just getting started with WordPress, I thought a glossary might be a helpful reference.
Now that you understand the basic components of a blog page you're ready to choose a theme. There is no right or wrong choice; there are only choices that give your website the look and functionality you want—and ones that don't.