Welcome to your WordPress website

Your website is built on WordPress — the open-source platform that powers a large share of the web, from small businesses to major publications. This guide is your starting point for confidently updating and maintaining your site. You don't need to be a developer: most of what you'll do day to day is editing page and post content using simple, visual building blocks.

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A helpful guardrail: You can safely edit the content of your pages and posts — text, images, buttons, and layouts. We recommend leaving templates and site-wide settings alone unless you're confident, since changes there affect your entire site. When in doubt, reach out and we'll help.

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The best part about WordPress core

Your site runs on WordPress core — the most widely used website software in the world, and it's fully open source. That's not just a technical detail; it's a real, practical advantage for you:

• You can always find what you need, straight from the source. Because WordPress is open and standardized, there's a deep library of official, always-current documentation and training maintained by WordPress itself. You're never dependent on one company's private help desk.
• Learn it once, use it anywhere. The skills you build editing your site apply to any WordPress website. Nothing you learn is locked to a proprietary system.
• A worldwide community has your back. Millions of people use WordPress, so almost any question you have has already been answered somewhere — and new tutorials appear constantly.
• No lock-in, built to last. Your content and your skills stay portable. WordPress has been around for two decades and isn't going anywhere.

This is why we build on WordPress core: it keeps you in control and makes sure help is always within reach.

What you'll find in the WordPress training

When you want to go deeper, these free, official resources are the best places to start. Each one is maintained by WordPress, so it stays current as the software evolves:

• Learn WordPress — Structured beginner courses, lessons, and learning pathways that take you from first steps to confident editing, at your own pace.
• WordPress Documentation — The official how-to manual for using and maintaining your site.
• Support Forums — A community-based place to ask specific questions and search answers from people who've solved the same thing.
• The official WordPress YouTube channel — Short video walkthroughs, great for visual learners.

A great first step: watch Introduction to WordPress, the opening lesson in WordPress's free Beginner WordPress User course. It's short, kept up to date, and covers the essentials of getting comfortable in your site. If there's something specific you'd like to learn, let us know and we'll point you in the right direction.

https://youtu.be/3S-s_V_z8JQ?si=UIDDGUbfuJRQXHKW

Understanding the block editor

Your website uses WordPress's modern block editor, a visual way to create and edit content using pre-designed building blocks — no code required.