In this post, I want to talk about skills that will make you much more effective at running a WordPress-based website. These days, websites are super important assets for most businesses and running a successful WordPress site requires a lot of different abilities. That’s because it involves so many aspects, from site maintenance over optimization to marketing.

When running a site by yourself or with a very small team, you have to wear a lot of different hats to make things happen. It’s why huge publications have teams that each concentrate on different aspects of site management. If you are not at that point, you need to prioritize learning what is most important.

In order to help you do that, below you find a long list of essential WordPress skills. They are ordered by beginner, intermediate, and expert-level skills and are based on my own experience of working with WordPress for 10+ years. A lot of them come from mistakes that I have made myself and/or seen others and my clients make.

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