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These are the short instructions, if you want more check out the extended upgrade instructions. If you experience problems with the Three Step Upgrade, you may want to review the more detailed upgrade instructions.

If you are new to WordPress and you're worried about where to start, you've come to the right place! Here is a very simple step-by-step plan for getting started with WordPress.

Before the advent of Themes, WordPress generated content using a single file, index.php, and files to support comment display and submission. A single style sheet controlled the presentation...

Not long ago, all web pages were designed with HTML tags. Then CSS took the presentation styles out of the HTML tags and into style sheets, expanding the visual capabilities of web pages. HTML has now grown into XHTML, a more mature and stable version, and ...

There's no doubt that your words, your posts, are the meat and potatoes of your blog or website. Those words, along with your lovely colors and pictures, tell your website's story.

The heading isn't your header, but a heading can be in your header. Confused yet? Ah, but you are here to learn.

It helps people move around your site when you have a clean navigation menu in the sidebar and/or the footer.

WordPress makes it easy to style your WordPress site with Themes, many of which are tested thoroughly on different computers and browsers before being released.

They say you can not judge a book by its cover, and yet every day people do. They pick up a book, look at the cover, and then are moved to either put it down, turn it over, or open it up just because of how the cover looks. Websites are also judged by their covers and the first impression ...

Besides the helpful WordPress forums and this Codex, there are many sites dedicated to helping WordPress users use WordPress even better. WordPress help is everywhere. So how do you find it when you really need it?