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There are gobs and gobs of resources available to help you understand and use your Wordpress website. Some are good…some not so much.

Below is a list of resources I either use myself, have used with clients, or have checked out thoroughly.
These are resources I stand behind.

As with anything, I encourage you to do your own due diligence.

Best Wordpress Hosting: Hostgator. Hands down.

Blog Training:
Become A Blogging Maniac – live and digital library versions. This is where I got my start with blogging.

Wordpress Training Cafe – one of the owners of this site helped me early on in my blog setup days. Excellent tutorials and resources, plus a great discussion forum where you can get your questions answered.

Themes:
iThemes – some of the easiest themes to work with anywhere. Especially the Flexx Professional theme.

Studio Press – some of the most beautiful and professional themes I’ve seen. These have a very polished look and are designed to pull content to the front page so that your front page is constantly changing. Wordpress Training Cafe are strong advocates of these themes.

Shopping cart:
If you want to be able to sell products or services on your site you’ll need some sort of shopping cart system. To have a professional look, that also provides a database for autoresponders and email blasts:
1ShoppingCart

Membership Software:
Wishlist Member is a user-friendly plugin for Wordpress. It turns your site into a membership site, with any number of membership levels and email/newsletter broadcast capabilities. This is what I use on my sites.