Welcome to part one of "WordPress Beginner", a new series of articles aimed at you, the fledging WordPress blogger, to help you set up a blog using self-hosted WordPress. Over the next few weeks I'm going to explain what you need to do to set up your hosting, your WordPress installation, how to install themes and plugins, and give you a basic introduction to HTML and CSS.
Although WordPress is surprisingly (for a technical web platform) intuitive – once you get to understand how it works – it is true to say that the learning curve can appear rather steep, …
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