About
About the blog
If you wish you can call this a “meta-blog”: as in the early post-modern era authors used to write texts about writing their text… and it was called metatext. What I am trying to document here is the process of writing a book for complete beginners who want to blog using WordPress.
Whenever I tried to share my enthusiasm about blogging and WordPress with my friends, I had to realize: although they all have computers and use it, most of the concepts related to websites and, especially WordPress, were foreign for them. Make no mistake, my friends are like just everyone else: they browse the web, they use email for communication (many of them even use instant messaging), and they write and read documents created in a word processor (most likely MS Word). Some of them might even have tried eventually, to have a basic website on one of the free providers. In other words, they are proficient users of the internet and their desktop software but they have never tried to get into the blogging scene.
Oh, but doesn’t WordPress have an extensive online documentation called the Codex?
Of course, it does. However, all the instructions, especially the brief ReadMe that comes with the downloaded package, assume a certain degree of familiarity with web basics. They take it granted that all the future users of WordPress know about servers, domains, FTP clients, root directory, database connection, basic HTML and CSS and the like. Which is not the case! Most newbies are just as my afore-mentioned friends: they can get around their computer but the whole idea of owning a website and managing its technical details sounds scary.
I decided to write this manual exactly to ease those fears and to help anybody to understand how they can become a successful blogger using WordPress if they are willing to put a little bit of effort into the learning process. As with every new thing there is a learning curve and, unfortunately, there are no shortcuts.
About the author
Until I set up a separate page about myself, just a brief intro.
My name is István Horváth and I am a blogger from Canada. I started using WordPress more than three years ago, and I am also one of your veteran helpers in the WordPress Support Forums, under my web nickname - moshu. With posts in over 13,000 topics and a related blog design and hosting business my readers can be sure I have the necessary insight and knowledge to deliver the expected content.
