I have created a user guide from various articles, knowledge base articles, other guides and some of my own stuff which should help you get used to using WordPress as an end user. Click here to view it! It's a PDF and is about half a megabyte in size. Feel free to distribute it without permission.

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Often people want to customise what links are shown in the meta widget. By default when you put this on one of your sidebars it will display Login / Logout, Feeds and WordPress links. I find the easiest way to change it is to actually remove the meta widget from the side bar and use a text widget instead. When you use the text widget you can put in whatever links you like. For example, once you have activated the text widget onto your...

WordPress 3.0 released the ability to easily customise the menu system. This can be accessed through Appearance > Menus assuming your theme supports it. This allows you to build up a menu system which can relate to categories just like the system I use in my Blog menu above. All from the one Blog you can narrow down the posts that are displayed in a select category, in effect making it look like a separate Blog. Keeping your posts on...

From time to time you may want to allow people to jump up and down your page, like this – Jump Down! Cool huh? It’s also very easy to do. Create your page. I find it easier to add all the anchors in at the end because this way it’s easier for me to see where they will be suitable. Identify two anchor points. The first anchor point you want to identify is the starting position – the initial link (like Jump Down!...