The Unofficial WordPress Manual — version 7.0
A complete, independently written WordPress user manual in PDF. Learn the dashboard, block editor, themes, plugins and maintenance — offline, at your own pace, in plain English. Download the Free Edition or get the Deluxe Edition with a year of updates.
The complete beginner-to-confident WordPress user manual.
- Full WordPress user guide in PDF
- Dashboard, posts, pages & block editor
- Menus, media, users & settings
- Written in plain English, with screenshots
Everything in Free, plus advanced chapters and a year of updates.
- 30+ extra pages of advanced material
- Plugins, themes & maintenance deep-dives
- Updated editions free for 1 year
- Support the free tutorials you love
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What’s inside the manual
The WP Tutoring WordPress Manual is the printed-manual experience WordPress never shipped with. Version 7.0 covers today’s WordPress — the block editor, the Site Editor, and the settings that actually matter — organized so you can read it cover to cover or keep it next to your keyboard as a reference:
- Getting around the dashboard without fear
- Posts vs. pages, categories and tags — and when to use each
- Writing and laying out content with the block editor (Gutenberg)
- Menus, widgets, media and users
- Installing and evaluating plugins and themes safely
- Settings, updates, backups and basic troubleshooting
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The WP Tutoring Unofficial WordPress Manual is an independent publication by ByRivers Tech LLC and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Automattic Inc., the WordPress Foundation, or the WordPress open-source project. WordPress® is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation, used here solely to describe the software the manual documents.
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