About this Tutorial

This tutorial was written by Brian Aguilar, a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. This tutorial was  written primarily for students at the J-School, but is intened for anyone just getting up to speed with WordPress for the first time.

After the basics have covered, we also cover some of the advanced plugins that make adding multimedia elements to WordPress sites a breeze.

Additional content by Scot Hacker, Webmaster, KDMC.

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