Title: WordPress needs Basic User Friendly Manual
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress needs Basic User Friendly Manual

 *  [Michael Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-daly/)
 * (@michael-daly)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/)
 * I am a novice to WordPress -this qualifies me to make an early observation:
 * **WordPress** is great but
    UN-NECESSARILY UN-USER-FRIENDLY Already I notice 
   a culture of **user-blocks**.
 * I hope WP contact me. I have lots of ideas to fix this wonderful program.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800660)
 * Please post your feedback in the [Requests And Feedback forum](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback).
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-daly/)
 * (@michael-daly)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800664)
 * I will post my feedback Esmi.
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-daly/)
 * (@michael-daly)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800665)
 * After wasting days on related video posting issues, this is what I wrote to a
   Plug-in author today.
 * > Am I missing something! Like a User Manual? Or are users expected to chase 
   > the author.
   >  By the way, I find WP in general, un-necessarily difficult to 
   > learn. EG: I believe my problem posting the News videos [DemocracyNow! and 
   > PBS NewsHour] was because I was trying to post two videos in one Post (I guess).
   > I separated them into two Posts and copied and pasted the embed code in the
   > HTML window – Now they both work!! But why is such a basic limitation not easily
   > found or jumping up for the user somehow?
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800812)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page)
 * is the ‘user manual’
 * remember, WordPress is all volunteer-driven platform. As it grows, it’s up to
   people (like you and me) to update the codex. Anyone can edit it. But many many
   features have been added to WordPress over the years. And sometimes documentation
   doesn’t get made. People mean to do it and don’t get to it, etc. There are books
   out there and stuff you can order if you need to.
 * As for plugins, its up to each plugin author to write documentation. And even
   for themes…. they all function differently, and its up to the authors to write
   documentation if they feel it is necessary.
 *  [Tiago Duarte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiago150/)
 * (@tiago150)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800959)
 * I don’t want to criticise your opinion on this, but i must say that WordPress
   is one of the most user-friendly CMS/Blog/Whatever you want it to be.
 * In case of doubt go see Joomla’s admin panel for example 😉
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-daly/)
 * (@michael-daly)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800978)
 * Thank you for your reply Rev. Voodoo + Tiago. I will investigate codex more as
   I go. I like your idea of getting a book on WordPress.
 *  [Tiago Duarte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiago150/)
 * (@tiago150)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800980)
 * There are many tutorials online you can view aswell 🙂
 * I can link you some if u want 😉
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael-daly/)
 * (@michael-daly)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800986)
 * Tiago150: Thank you, maybe you can send a couple of links so I can find my way.
 * By the way,one thing/ I dont know if it can be done or if it is too advanced 
   for me but:
    I use Graphene theme – I wanted to change where and how the post
   DATE shows (i’d like plain text under the Head. Maybe I should contact the author?
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-needs-basic-user-friendly-manual/#post-1800992)
 * [http://wordpress.org/about/books/](http://wordpress.org/about/books/)
    here’s
   some of the available books
 * a link to your site would show us how your current date is formatted. But basically
   the date is displayed using some simple code like `<?php the_time('d M'); ?>`
   which can be edited, moved around, etc.

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