Title: Overview document
Last modified: June 3, 2021

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# Overview document

 *  [VitualBob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitualbob/)
 * (@vitualbob)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overview-document/)
 * I’m a Concrete5 website maintainer and know that platform quite well. I did a
   test install of the latest version of WP and its all a bit opaque as to where
   to start – I just go round in circles. Different interfaces full of menus that
   don’t seem to do anything I want. Is there a top-level guide somewhere that explains
   the ‘logic’ of WP and its multiple interfaces and the menus and what they do 
   and what their submenus contain? Preferably screen dumps with arrows pointing
   to sections telling you what to do where. It would speed up my understanding.
   Thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overview-document/#post-14514249)
 * > I’m a Concrete5 website maintainer and know that platform quite well. I did
   > a test install of the latest version of WP and its all a bit opaque as to where
   > to start – I just go round in circles.
 * I bet if I installed Concrete5 for the first time today, everything would be 
   similarly “opaque” to me… as my brain would be expecting the things I’m used 
   to in WordPress, which may not exist in Concrete5.
 * This is where product documentation comes in handy.
 * As you seem to be a much higher-up in building websites (and only new to WordPress),
   perhaps you may want to choose your own “where to start” adventure from here:
   [https://wordpress.org/support/](https://wordpress.org/support/)
 * If you want a complete newbie “where to start” instead, kindly go here instead:
 * > [New to WordPress – Where to start](https://wordpress.org/support/article/new-to-wordpress-where-to-start/)
    -  This reply was modified 5 years ago by [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/).
 *  Thread Starter [VitualBob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitualbob/)
 * (@vitualbob)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overview-document/#post-14514428)
 * Thanks, the earlier versions of Concrete5 that I still use are very easy to navigate,
   the later version are non-intuitive.
 * What I’m looking for is illustrated cheat sheets. Standard documentation is not
   what I need to jump in as you can be scrolling endlessly through pages of text.
 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overview-document/#post-14514643)
 * > What I’m looking for is illustrated cheat sheets. Standard documentation is
   > not what I need to jump in as you can be scrolling endlessly through pages 
   > of text.
 * Unfortunately, I don’t know of any such all-encompassing cheat sheets that would
   cover just about anything anyone could possibly do in WordPress. Let’s hope someone
   else who does would chime in to help.
 * But if you were to ask a specific question or present a specific problem you’re
   stuck with, perhaps I could help address that.
 * My humble advice is to eat this elephant one bite at a time. Have a good plan
   of what you’re trying to accomplish (this is independent of what site builder
   you use), and focus on one piece of the plan at a time. Jump in and ask specific
   questions whenever you hit a roadblock.
 * At the high level, a WordPress site has three pieces:
    - WordPress itself (or the WordPress core)
    - [A Theme:](https://wordpress.org/themes/) this controls the “presentation”
      of your site. Note that by “presentation”, I don’t mean just eye candy, a 
      WordPress theme is also the template system that controls what content is 
      retrieved from the database and presented to the visitor.
    - [Plugins:](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) a site builder that powers more
      than 40% of all websites on the internet can certainly not please everyone
      and still remain usable. So the WordPress core is deliberately lean (some 
      would argue it’s becoming bloated now), but and the thousands of free and 
      commercial plugins fill the void by providing the specific features that individual
      site owners want.
 * Again, I believe the best approach is to take one step at a time, and ask specific
   questions you may have, or ask for help to address any specific challenge you
   may have along the way.
 * Good luck!

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