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I’m sorry to hear that your designer did that to you, @sna2009. @bphelp pretty much covered it, so I won’t go into that. I will say, however, that keep up this attitude and you’ll go far. I don’t know many people that are actually willing to learn all of this, and seeing that you’re completely new and want to get the job done — it’s…[Read more]

@sna2009
Also depending on what you are trying to accomplish you will also need to learn some web basics like html, css, php, jquery, etc. There is plenty of info on the net for that and if you search on google you should find plenty of resources. Cheers!

@sna2009
Here is a link to the WP codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/
and to the BP codex

BuddyPress Codex

I would bookmark them both because you will find yourself referencing them often.
Good luck!

@sna2009
The codex is as good a place as any to learn WP and BP. You can search YouTube for videos as well. Lynda.com offers tutorials for a fee, as well as Tutsplus.com . Lisa Sabin-Wilson has several books called WordPress and BuddyPress for dummies but I am not certain how up to date they are with current versions of WP and BP.