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WordPress Documentation

Ask any designer, developer, scientist, teacher, professor, just about anyone and the worse part of the job is the documentation. We all rely on documentation and great documentation is a pleasure to use, while others are just plain nasty… Yes, I’m looking at you JQuery.

As part of any WordPress build, I normally include training which can happen in a number of ways, skype call, phone call, one-on-one meeting. I used to write word documents, then moved to Google docs and more recently, I’ve set up separate websites. Thanks to the folks at Shaken and Stirred, their Easy docs theme makes documentation easy to implement and I’ve put together some general WordPress documentation for everyone to use.

On this website, you’ll find instructions on how to create a new post, add links, pdfs document, image gallery, even crop images inside wordPress.

Screencasts are also another great way to demonstrate how anything works and I’ve put together a few of them using Jing, but then I discovered Micheal Pick. He’s put together 120 videos on WordPress.tv and his voice is way sexier than mine. Some of his videos are for WordPress.com though… so may not be relevant to you. If you need a refresher on the difference between WordPress.com and .org, here’s yet another video.

If you’re a WordPress developer and would like to provide your own documentation, I would encourage you to look at the Easy Docs theme and if you want my content, just let me know and I’ll send you the xml file.