[wp-docs] Overwhelming?

[James Huff]

The general standpoint is that WordPress is very easy to get the hang 
of if you just spend 30 minutes getting to know it.  The general point 
of the WordPress Lessons are to provide you with every last tiny 
detail, just in case you missed something.  Think of them as those 
books like, "Microsoft Office for Dummies", or "Internet Explorer: The 
Missing Manual".  Those are two programs that you shouldn't need a 
manual for, yet they still manage to turn out 200-300 page books that 
do come in handy for some users.


On Apr 25, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Scott Merrill wrote:

> I started at the WordPress Lessons page:
>    http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons
> which is chock-full of information.  I hadn't read "First Steps with
> WordPress" in a while, so I clicked there:
>    http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress
> also chock-full of information.  Reading all of these two pages (which 
> I
> didn't do) would take me a fair amount of time.
>
>> From First Steps, I clicked on "how all of this works", which takes 
>> me to:
>    http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress
>
> I've been using WordPress for about a year now, and feel fully
> comfortable with it.  But I feel overwhelmed trying to follow the
> documentation.  I've no idea what to suggest as a starting point for my
> mom, a fledgling WordPress user and a person entirely too busy to read
> all of this stuff.
>
> Don't get me wrong: it's _fantastic_ that we have such a wealth of
> information.  I wonder, though, if we can find a slightly more linear
> presentation method so as not to inundate the fledgling bloggers with
> too many links to too much information?
> Maybe we could tease out some of the information from Codex into a 
> (PDF?
>  HTML?) "WordPress Guidebook", which users could read offline (or 
> print).
>
> _Huge kudos_ to Carthik, Lorelle, and all the codex contributors.  I am
> simply amazed at the quality and quantity of the information.
>
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James Huff (MacManX)
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