is wordpress hard to learn?

I would say easy to learn but hard to master. There are so much cool stuff you can do in wordpress so you will always stumble in something new no matter how familiar you are whew wordpress

Depands on want you want to learn.

TRmethod,

So many comments say you over-paid or that you should just "fiddle around" to learn WordPress. Sure that could work but there is nothing wrong with taking a structured class if that is how you learn best. I too am someone who learns things best with a formal structured class-style method.

Now on to your question -- I find Wordpress easy enough that even I, the class-taking, tutorial, webinar loving geek, am able to get everything I need out of WP by exploring menus and looking up help files when I'm stuck. I have twenty-something blogs that I am fully responsible for and with the addition of some tools (for managing comments mostly) I get by. Who knows what else I could do if I took a class

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TRmethod,

So many comments say you over-paid or that you should just "fiddle around" to learn WordPress. Sure that could work but there is nothing wrong with taking a structured class if that is how you learn best. I too am someone who learns things best with a formal structured class-style method.

Now on to your question -- I find Wordpress easy enough that even I, the class-taking, tutorial, webinar loving geek, am able to get everything I need out of WP by exploring menus and looking up help files when I'm stuck. I have twenty-something blogs that I am fully responsible for and with the addition of some tools (for managing comments mostly) I get by. Who knows what else I could do if I took a class

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I can see a structured class for getting a hold of php, then maybe HTML and CSS. But with CSS and HTML it seems to me that you're better off learning syntax and the core concepts, then just working and learning as you go. Especially since which each new theme or plugin, the code structure can vary greatly as you try to customize and edit it, I just use Chrome's dev tools and I can dissect sites pretty quickly now. Before I would just edit random CSS classes/values in style.css and refresh the preview, you just learn as you go. There's no way to make sure you take the best possible path or anything like that while learning, ya just go and do it.

Btw wordpress is easy than blogger as you jst have to install plugins in wordpress

Just this hosting part is a bit complex in wordpress

$120 is way too high.

WordPress was made to facilitate non technical users. If you want to be a WP developer you need to learn PHP indepth.

It's very simple. Probably the best CMS from the world.

+1 for getting your money back.
Youtube has plenty of good tutorials.

Get WAMP (or similar) set up on your PC and try out Wordpress at home. Break it, fix it. work it out.

Oh, and if you need a hand setting up WAMP, ask here on again use YouTube.

What do you want to learn?

you didnt have to pay.... but if you did i hope it helps you to learn in a high level

What I don't get is why did you pay a course 120$ and asking after "Is wordpress hard to learn ?" Why didn't you go on youtube or somewhere else watch a few tutorial and start from here.

Best way to learn is getting your hand dirty, chance are you paid a course that teach exactly the same as a few good YT channels except that it was better marketed.If you really feel the need to have a paid course letter on buy it but to start just install and play around on a local installation with XAMPP.

You would have been better off with a 120$ PHP course ;D

Wish you would have made this thread BEFORE spending your $120! I guarantee EVERYTHING in that course could be learned online for free in multiple places!

Either way! Stick with it to make your investment worthwhile!

I found learning Wordpress fairly simple. Make a start, when you get stuck, seek help from YT, search engines and before you know it, you're self taught and learning new skills every day.

Looking back at those first few days of using WordPress, the software itself was not difficult to use but figuring out where to go to get plugins, themes, support, and documentation was.that WordPress had a shallow learning curve when I used the system for the first time and since then, that curve has become closer to being flattened.

By today it is pretty easy to 'learn' wordpress.

If you want to do real business with it you should also thrive for learning the underlying concepts (CSS, HTML, Javascript) to be able to customize things is you have to.

No you will learn WordPress in no time! First, learn the basics of how to use WP, set up plugins, etc. After that, learn HTML, CSS and jQuery from CodeCademy (free courses) and you will have all the skills needed to code themes. It's really easy, but if you never used CSS to edit a website then it might be difficult at first. Try using the Blankslate theme to get started, it's a completely blank WP theme framework that you can use to create themes from, so you only need to worry about editing the CSS code. Then you can learn more advanced stuff, I recommend the book "web designer's guide to wordpress" by Jesse Friedman. It'll cover everything you need to know and its more affordable then any course or lesson you will buy online.

Good luck! Keep at it, work on your own personal projects and get all the experience you can. You can make a lot of money by creating WordPress sites and you will find many freelance WP jobs on oDesk, Elance and Guru.

I hope I am not too late in providing you some useful information.

It is better to begin learning how to install and use Wordpress on your Windows-based PC first. It is almost same as installing and using it on a (Linux based) web hosting package.

Here is the link for you to go through... it is very easy almost a step-my-step method, so get started without any fears.

Once properly installed, you can add plugins, etc. to the dummy WP site. Add some Categories, Pages, Posts. Then find some more information on other Admin page items.

Here are some great links on Youtube.com for you to learn basics of Wordpress:

Google:

site:youtube.com Wordpress basics

site:youtube.com Wordpress tutorial learn OR beginner OR start

site:youtube.com xampp tutorial learn OR beginner OR start

site:youtube.com Wordpress plugin tutorial learn OR beginner OR start

site:youtube.com Wordpress use template OR theme tutorial learn OR beginner OR start

site:youtube.com Wordpress security learn OR beginner OR start

site:youtube.com cpanel learn OR beginner OR start

site:youtube.com buy OR register domain name and hosting

site:youtube.com Wordpress basic seo

site:youtube.com Wordpress advanced [keyword]
for e.g.:
site:youtube.com Wordpress advanced custom
site:youtube.com Wordpress advanced css
site:youtube.com Wordpress advanced selling

(e.g., for using custom fields and post types, creating plugins and themes, learning and writing codes in php, JS, html, learn about css; do lot of other development,modifications, understand your client's needs and creating accordingly, ... acquire other business skills, etc. etc.)

Almost anything you need to learn, it's there on Youtube, AND it's FREE too!
... so you get the idea... use site:Youtube.com and your keyword to learn almost any topic without paying anything.

Those are just a few of the basic "courses" you can go through. Then you can learn advance concepts like creating wordpress site with coding using Dreamweaver and/or Photoshop, etc. There are many good applications like Artisteer which can create good-looking WP sites (and many others CMS's like Joomla, etc.) without writing a line of code, simply using their advanced GUIs!

At the same time, you can learn how to market your creation, first to your friends, then to merchants locally, then globally using online marketplaces like Guru.com, freelancer.com, odex, etc. as a freelancer (solo or with a team of coders/developers/marketers... At that stage, to really take off and make a name for yourself, you will need to acquire expertise in many of the above departments, and also should have a good portfolio, and of course have good marketing and presentation skills, among lot of other skills.

Mind you, the above is just a beginning...

So, enjoy learning

Wordpress has grown quickly in part to how supportive the community is. Plugins and themes are actually ranked by their support. Plus you have so many people posting tuts and guides on other channels such as YouTube, WPtuts etc. Finding answers to problems is easy and stackexchange even has a forum specifically for wordpress questions. I would recommend asking questions in Wordpress' forums first though.

Wordpress is a great CMS platform for website building and content management. In addition, there's a huge flexibility in customising your Wordpress sites to make them gorgeous. Simply look at the abundance of free and paid themes available for you to design your Wordpress site. I love Wordpress!