The Inevitable Question!
Sometimes I get asked the inevitable question, ‘Is WordPress complicated?’ My answer is always the same – everything is complicated or hard unless you know how to do it. Think back to your driving test, did you just get in the car for the very first time just before your test and expect to know it all and pass with flying colours? There are probably a few that could, but generally, most of us spend time learning how to drive beforehand.
So, Is WordPress complicated?
Now I’m being totally honest here, when I first heard about WordPress, I took one look and dismissed it straight away. There was no easy guide, and I really didn’t have any clue where to start. Is WordPress complicated in this situation? Yes. However, this was back in 2008, at the time I had a party ideas blog that I had run for the last year.
Starting out
I first built the site on a website template builder that was very restrictive. Each of the sites built with it looked identical and really outdated, whereas I wanted fun and pink, obviously!
This led to my husband creating a website for me from scratch using code so it could look exactly how I wanted it to look. However, every change had to be made by code, and although through managing the blog, I had to learn the basics of HTML and CSS, any big changes had to be done by him, and he just never had the time to do them.
I searched and searched for a solution that would allow me a website with no coding, look how I want it to, and that I could manage on my own.
As I said, I had come across WordPress before and dismissed it straight away. But then, after commenting on a post on Facebook, I won a place on a WordPress course.
That changed everything for me, within days!
Knowledge is Power
Is WordPress complicated? No! Being shown what to do, I had a website up within a week that met all my requirements, and even after the first day, I thought, ‘Why on earth did I think this was hard?’ It’s easier than all the other solutions I’ve used. I just needed to be shown how to use it.
Fast forward a few years, and a local business asked me to create a website for them, knowing I had run a blog and created my own in the past. I decided to use WordPress as all they had to do was purchase a domain and hosting (around £50 a year). Of course, as WordPress is free, if it all went wrong, they hadn’t really lost a lot.
They loved it and recommended me to another business, who then recommended me to someone else. The rest they say is history, and 7 years later I have worked on over 500 WordPress websites and I’ve been able to meet the needs of every one of my clients.
Sharing my Knowledge
Building websites for other businesses wasn’t enough for me, though. 3 years ago, I wanted to give others the opportunity to learn how to use WordPress and create their own websites. For me, having a bunch of how-to videos just wasn’t enough. The course I had taken was fully supported, so I decided I would run a live course and tailor the training to whoever signed up.
It was a success!
And my students loved my teaching style and how I just showed them what they needed to know for their website. I didn’t waste their time learning a bunch of stuff they would never use on their sites. The fact is, I made it simple and easy. By just showing them where to start and creating a structured way they could follow, to not only create their website vision, but also be able to fully manage it themselves too.
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So, is WordPress complicated?
No, it’s not!
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