Themewaves

WordPress Tutorials & Step-by-Step Guides

These tutorials come out of real client work, not a content calendar. Each one answers a question we have actually been asked — usually more than once — and walks through the answer in the order you'd hit it in practice. Start with the foundations below, then follow the links into the full write-ups.

Start here: the foundations

If you are early on, two things will save you more grief than anything else: knowing how to recover your site, and having a realistic sense of how long the learning curve actually is.

Working with pages and content

Once the basics are in place, most day-to-day questions are about controlling what appears where. These two cover the parts that trip people up.

Design and theme work

This is where our day job overlaps with the tutorials. If you are shaping how a theme looks and behaves, start here:

When a tutorial isn't enough

Tutorials get you a long way, but some problems are faster to hand off. If you'd rather skip the learning curve on a specific task, our development team can take it on, and the resources hub collects the downloads and reference material that pair with these guides. New write-ups land on the blog regularly — that's the place to keep an eye on.