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How to Make the Most Out of WPBeginner’s Free Resources

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If you’re new to WPBeginner, you’ll find a treasure trove of free resources that can help you excel at using WordPress. Since 2009, WPBeginner has been the go-to source for free WordPress guides, how-to tutorials, and videos aimed at beginners.

This article will guide you on how to effectively use WPBeginner’s resources. Learn to navigate our extensive library to find exactly what you need to improve your WordPress skills.

By the end of this guide, you’ll know how to access and utilize various tools and tips that WPBeginner offers, ensuring you make the most of every feature available.

Taking advantage of WPBeginner's free WordPress resources

If you haven’t started a website yet, then please take a look at the following guides:

If you already have a website, check out the resources below.

1. Subscribe to the WPBeginner Newsletter

Subscribe to WPBeginner newsletter

Signing up for the WPBeginner newsletter is the best way to stay updated with WPBeginner’s new posts and resources. When we write a new article, it will land directly in your email inbox (weekly).

You will also get links to other resources you may have missed.

2. Sign Up for Our FREE Video Tutorials

WPBeginner videos

If you are just starting out with WordPress, then our WordPress Beginner Videos should be your first destination.

We hate to see many big companies selling such basic education for hundreds of dollars. This is why we decided to make it available for FREE.

These HD-quality videos are built for beginner-level users. Our step-by-step video tutorials cover from the basics to advanced WordPress topics and will help you get started with WordPress in no time.

3. Join Our Facebook Group (WPBeginner Engage)

WPBeginner Facebook Group

With more than 94,000+ members, our Facebook group, WPBeginner Engage, is one of the fastest-growing WordPress groups on Facebook.

It is the most casual and often the fastest way to get WordPress help from our WordPress experts and other motivated website owners like yourself.

Our team members actively participate in the group to answer user questions. We also do Facebook Live sessions with our Founder and CEO, Syed Balkhi.

4. Join Our YouTube Channel

WPBeginner YouTube

With more than 298,000 subscribers, WPBeginner’s YouTube channel is the best WordPress channel on YouTube (over 1000+ free videos).

We regularly upload new videos with useful how-to tutorials aimed at beginner-level users. These videos are short, sweet, and easy to follow.

You will also get the video transcript, link to the text version of the tutorial, and you can even ask questions in the comments.

Joining our YouTube channel will help you stay up to date, brush up on your WordPress skills, and discover new tools and plugins for your website.

5. Allow WPBeginner Push Notifications

WPBeginner push notifications

Another way to stay in touch with important content is to get push notifications from WPBeginner.

Allowing push notifications will let you receive browser notifications on your desktop or mobile devices. We only use this notification for important pieces of content (not every post). You can check the article right away or later at your convenience.

If you have push notifications blocked on your browser, then you can enable them or selectively allow WPBeginner.

Here is how to turn on notifications in major browsers:

6. Follow Us on Your Favorite Social Media Networks

Follow WPBeginner on Social

We do our best to be present on all popular social media platforms so we can help you learn WordPress on your favorite platform.

You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram.

This way, you can participate in our community discussions, see the new posts we have published, get in touch with us, and leave your comments and feedback.

We like to hear from our users. Many of our post ideas come from user requests made on Twitter, Facebook, and our other social channels.

7. Got a WordPress Question? Here Is How to Find the Answer

WPBeginner search

In the top right corner of every page on WPBeginner, there is a search box. This search box is powered by Google Custom Search. It is fast and highly accurate.

Simply type in the question you want to ask us. There is a very good chance that we have already written about it.

Pro tip: To save time, some readers just Google their WordPress questions with wpbeginner at the end of each search term so that Google can show them the most accurate answer.

8. Can’t Find an Answer? Drop Us a Line or Tweet

Send us a message

If you have searched WPBeginner and didn’t find an answer to your question, then you can reach us using the contact form on our website.

You can also Tweet to us @WPBeginner.

Alternatively, you can post your question in WPBeginner’s Facebook Group. This way, you can share as much information as you like and get help from our experts and other users.

We will try our best to get back to you with an answer or point you in the right direction within one business day.

We love hearing from our users because that’s what keeps us motivated and inspired.

9. Need Plugin and Theme Recommendations?

Plugin and theme recommendations

Many beginners are concerned about which plugins they should use on their WordPress site or how to find the perfect theme.

We have created a Solutions Center, where our WordPress experts hand-pick the best WordPress products, plugins, and tools that you can use on your website.

Alternatively, you can visit WPBeginner’s Showcase section, where our WordPress experts select the best plugins and themes based on functionality and niches. Here are some resources to get started:

Want to know which WordPress plugins and tools we use on WPBeginner? Just check out WPBeginner’s Blueprint, where you will find all the tools and plugins we use to run WPBeginner.

10. Look Up Terms in our WordPress Glossary (aka WordPress Dictionary)

WPBeginner Glossary

As a beginner, it’s quite intimidating to not know what specific technical lingo means. That’s exactly why we created our WordPress glossary.

You can look up WordPress and blogging terms in our WordPress Glossary section. We have organized the most commonly used terms in alphabetical order with easy-to-understand descriptions for each term.

11. Get the Best WordPress Deals and Coupons

Coupons and deals

As the largest WordPress resource site, we have reached out to top WordPress companies for exclusive discounts and deals for our users.

In WPBeginner’s Deals section, you will find excellent WordPress hosting, theme, and plugin coupons.

We have also included special offers for most of the tools and services that we use ourselves to grow our business. All these deals will help you grow your business online with much less effort.

12. Use WPBeginner’s Free Business Tools

Free business tools

WPBeginner also offers a growing collection of highly useful and totally free business tools. These free tools help small businesses grow their websites and compete with the big guys.

Here is a list of free business tools offered by WPBeginner:

Together, these tools can save you thousands of dollars that you would otherwise spend on paid alternatives that do the same thing.

12. Want to Learn More About WPBeginner?

About WPBeginner

Are you curious about who runs WPBeginner? For instance, why is it free, and how it works? Just check out our About page.

We started as a small blog to help our clients learn how to use WordPress. Since then, WPBeginner has become one of the largest free WordPress resource sites for beginners.

You may also want to check out the personal website of our founder and CEO, Syed Balkhi. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram.

13. WordPress Professional Services

WordPress is quite easy, and with WPBeginner’s free resources, it gets easier even for absolute beginners.

However, we all need extra help now and then.

This is where WPBeginner’s Professional WordPress Services can help. For a small fee, you can hire professional WordPress experts to help you make a website, optimize speed and performance, get a professional SEO setup, or hire someone for emergency WordPress fixes.

Here is a list of services available:

14. What Else Do We Do?

The WPBeginner blog is managed by Awesome Motive Inc., the management company behind many other premium WordPress plugins and tools.

If you like our free tutorials, then please support us by using our premium plugins:

We hope this article helped you learn how you can make the most out of WPBeginner’s free WordPress resources. You may also want to take a look at how to learn WordPress in a week or less or our expert picks for the best free WordPress blog themes.

If you liked this article, then please subscribe to our YouTube Channel for WordPress video tutorials. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

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Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff at WPBeginner is a team of WordPress experts led by Syed Balkhi with over 16 years of experience in WordPress, Web Hosting, eCommerce, SEO, and Marketing. Started in 2009, WPBeginner is now the largest free WordPress resource site in the industry and is often referred to as the Wikipedia for WordPress.

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  2. Jiří Vaněk says

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    • Jiří Vaněk says

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