Website Planning:
Smashing Magazine Comprehensive Website Planning Guide
Do Your Homework Before Overhauling Your Website
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org What’s the difference?
How a Web Design goes to hell
Domain Name Registration:
Web Hosting:
Siteground
Bluehost
Web Hosting Guide for Beginner’s
Think your host is pretty great now? Run your IP address through this site Reverse IP Domain Check to see how many other websites are hosted on your same web server. Too many sites on one IP address can cause problems with SEO, as well as cause your site to be “overblocked” if even one other site on your shared host contains some form of adult or explicit content.
WordPress Set-up:
WordPress.com
WordPress.org
WPBeginner
Genesis Framework for Beginners
Video Tutorials:
WordPress TV
Genesis Camp
WordPress 2015 Theme Setup
Recommended Themes:
I use the Studiopress Genesis Framework as my primary theme, with some of the following child themes (note: I am an affiliate for Studiopress and received a small commission if you purchase through these links)
Interested in popular plugins and themes? Check out the The GoDaddy Top 100 as recommended by WP Tavern, or search WordPress.org/themes.
Design and Inspiration:
WordPress.org Showcase
Studiopress Showcase
Dribbble
See a site you love and wonder what theme they are using?
What WordPress Theme is That? will display the theme as well as some of the plugins active on the site. Does not always show theme when highly customized.
Typography:
WordPress Help:
Content Development:
Copyblogger
Kissmetrics: Ingredients of Great Content
Writing Services: Deborah Lee Luskin
Blogging:
How to Make Money Blogging
How to Start a Blog
Blogging Checklist before you hit Publish
Image Optimization:
Pic Monkey
Shopify 10 Must Know Image Optimization Tips
Entrepreneurship:
How to be an Effective Entrepreneur
Logo/Branding:
Why you don’t need to make your logo bigger (excuse the title of this article, but it explains why the area for your logo is so small)
Recommended Reading: Alina Wheeler’s Book: Designing Brand Identity
Search Engine Optimization (SEO):
Google Ranking Factors
Woorank
MOZ: Beginner’s Guide to SEO
Security:
12 Ways to Secure your WordPress Website
Sucuri Sitecheck
Wordfence Plugin
Wordfence Security Learning Center
Backups:
Schedule regular backups with the Updraft Plus Plugin. Also check out Katrinah’s tutorial on Site Backups.
Referral Spam:
How to Get Rid of Referal/Ghost Spam
How to Block WordPress Referrer Spam in Google Analytics
Call-to-Action:
Hubspot: Great Call-to-Action Examples
Passwords:
Learn How to Code:
Command Line for Beginners
KnowTheCode.io
Code School
Lynda.com
W3 Schools CSS Tutorials
Rest API
The REST API will allow themes to load data without refreshing the page, allowing for a more app-like experience for the user.
A Day of Rest Boston
Human Made REST API Whitepaper
Editing a Theme
Studiopress Beginner’s Guide
Customizing with Chrome Inspector
Compare two files side by side with diffnow.com
Facebook:
See how your Share will look on Facebook
Tips for Uploading Photos to Facebook
Brattleboro WordPress Web Design / Developer Meetup
Brattleboro WordPress Meetup
Brattleboro Meetup WordPress.com Site
