Below you’ll find links to pages in the WordPress.com Help Center. Also check out the help pages I published here:
WordPress.com Support
WordPress has by far the most comprehensive set of help pages, compared to Tumblr and Blogger, but it can be overwhelming for a new user to know where to start. Here are a few sections in the WordPress Support site you might find helpful:
- Writing and Editing (info on using pages, posts, categories, tags, etc.)
- Understanding the New Post screen
- Understanding the Visual vs. Text editors
- Options for editing and deleting posts
- Understanding categories vs. tags
- Creating hyperlinks in your posts
- Help with inserting images, videos, presentations, audio, and more into your posts
- Who Can Comment (settings to enable classmates to comment)
- Comments (more about enabling comments, moderating,notifications, etc.)
- Appearance (menus, themes, header images, etc.)
- Widgets and Sidebars
- Adding a list of links to the sidebar
- Recommended Widgets to add: Recent Comments and Categories
- Publishing Comics (tips for optimizing WordPress for a webcomic)
Searching Google for Help
Always use the full domain of WordPress.com when searching Google for help, rather than just WordPress. Here’s a sample Google search phrase: best readable theme wordpress.com
Here’s why: If you don’t include the .com, you’re likely to come across resources that are relevant only to those who’ve installed the WordPress app on their own servers (as I did for nearly all my web sites). That version is sometimes referred to as the “full” or “self-hosted” version, and most of the help resources that relate to that version will be of no use to you.
