Web Zero to Web Hero
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Ask Anca is a column written by WordPress expert Anca Mosoiu. Anca is owner of Tech Liminal (where you can come and ask these types of questions in person every Friday at the WordPress Support Group).
This week, we’ll start covering one of the more fundamental questions involved in building a WordPress site:
“Hi Anca,
How do I pick a theme if I want to customize my site?
A. Designer”
This question has a complicated and lengthy answer that boils down to “it depends”1.
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(Ask Anca is a column written by WordPress expert Anca Mosoiu. Anca is owner of Tech Liminal, a co-working space and technology hotspot.)
“Hi Anca,
How does WordPress Work?
Lucy V”
Hi Lucy V,
While this is a deep and involved question, I like to start with a simple, graphical answer.
In a nutshell:
You edit content in the dashboard. It goes to a database, where the front end of WordPress combines it with a theme and your plugins. This produces a page that the readers will see.
Anca Mosoiu runs Tech Liminal, a technology salon in downtown Oakland, CA, where people just like you can get help with their websites, web applications, and general technology concerns. She is translating her background as developer, analyst, and information architect working on large-scale corporate web applications into practical, straightforward tools for the motivated entrepreneur and small-business owner.