Title: Knowledge needed before starting WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Knowledge needed before starting WordPress

 *  [no1texan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no1texan/)
 * (@no1texan)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/knowledge-needed-before-starting-wordpress/)
 * Having zero / -0- knowledge and experience with websites and blogs, I am struggling
   with WordPress. Viewing videos for beginners or reading books and articles is
   still at a level above my understanding.
 * Is there an e-book or beginners book that starts with the very basics for a person
   in my situation, zero knowledge? I have made it to the Dashboard and intellectually
   know where to go to create a page or post. But I have lots of questions that 
   I can’t find answers.
 * Is WordPress for Dummies a good source of the very basics of WordPress?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Gabe Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabeyoung/)
 * (@gabeyoung)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/knowledge-needed-before-starting-wordpress/#post-3464859)
 * One place to begin is here: [Getting started with WP](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress).
 *  Thread Starter [no1texan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no1texan/)
 * (@no1texan)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/knowledge-needed-before-starting-wordpress/#post-3464873)
 * Thanks for the link-it looks exactly what I needed.
 * Here is bit more information which I did not put in my first post in order to
   not make my post too confusing. Last fall I paid a WordPress designer to set 
   up a website for me. The agreement was that he would set up the website in WP
   and then I would “manage” the site afterwords. The “manage” part is what I need
   to learn and reason for my post.
 * Using Getting started with WP, can I set up another separate WP blog/website 
   for learning purposes? Can I do this without effecting the website already set
   up?
 * Thanks again.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/knowledge-needed-before-starting-wordpress/#post-3464878)
 * > can I set up another separate WP blog/website for learning purposes?
 * Yes. Just install WordPress in another sub-folder. I have domains running 3 or
   4 installs of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [no1texan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/no1texan/)
 * (@no1texan)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/knowledge-needed-before-starting-wordpress/#post-3464884)
 * I should have given all this info in one post – looks like I am stringing it 
   out-not really. Only thinking about it when I get a reply.
 * WordPress is not on my pc. I have checked Control Panel and it is not there. 
   The way I get to the Dashboard is go online to [http://www.philcollinsstudio.com/admin](http://www.philcollinsstudio.com/admin)
   and sign in.
 * Should I have WP on my pc?
 * Thanks for your patience.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/knowledge-needed-before-starting-wordpress/#post-3464886)
 * No, you do not need anything on your computer if your site is on a server (which
   the above site is) – then it’s all done via your browser. IF you want to put 
   a COPY or that site or another site on your local computer, you can do that by
   setting up WP on a local install — see
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer)
 * But that site won’t be accessible on the internet, nor will it be connected to
   the live site on a hosted server.

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