Title: WordPress Newbie help!!! Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # WordPress Newbie help!!! * [Bloggergrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggergrl/) * (@bloggergrl) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/) * Hey yall! * Ok so my web designer has completely bailed on me leaving me high and dry with a wordpress website that I haven’t got a clue about. Just yesterday while doing my blog updates a server error 503 popped up preventing me from uploading any more post. I don’t understand the terminologies or word lingos that are spoken through wordpress I definitely don’t know anything about the coding but Im completely stuck and don’t know what to do :*(. When she built my website she made it into her own project without breaking down the necessary information I would need to understand if ever I got into a jam.(In one now) I would be so greatful for a 101 session or to be directed * My personal website is AmberSocialLA.com and if you look at the very bottom of my site is pretty familiar to the same experiences that I had with her. Just as a reminder coming on here is intimidating enough and tutorials are like a foreign language Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [Cory Gibbons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corygibbons/) * (@corygibbons) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122409) * Do you have a specific question? * Otherwise you can get started by giving this a read: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress) * Thread Starter [Bloggergrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggergrl/) * (@bloggergrl) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122449) * Yeah there were a couple…. * 1.Server Error 503 (What does that mean) * 2.WordPress Terms (Is there a term dictionary) * 3.Where to find information for someone who knows nothing about WordPress * Thread Starter [Bloggergrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggergrl/) * (@bloggergrl) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122451) * I’ve tried to make my rounds reading all this information that’s given on here but it’s really not mapped out in a way for someone that is just trying to learn the basics without feeling dizzy * [Monalicia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monalicia/) * (@monalicia) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122453) * Looks like 503 is a temorary error with the server. I just got this from a wiki * 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable (because it is overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state. * Once WordPress is installed and set up, learning how to use it to manage content etc is not too hard and there are a lot of resources out there. * Coding is a whole different ball game though. Not sure why you would need to do coding? What exactly are you trying to code? I would think anything like that should be passed on to a developer. Perhaps find another one? * Thread Starter [Bloggergrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggergrl/) * (@bloggergrl) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122494) * Well because after my incident with her I changed my passwords and my GoDaddy rep had said that even with a password that it could flaw the coding in my website which could eventually make it crash. So after hearing that I had assumed that nearly everything that is maintenanced (I didn’t even think to consider before blogging) and updating what have you would considerably have to go through coding. I Googled the 503 concern but either there were no resources on how to find the problem and fix it or there were people referring to a Fhp or wp…some technology language. In this city (Los Angeles) trying to find people that understands wordpress is like 1 in a million and that ONE person wants to charge and arm and leg. So how do I figure out the 503 issue and how to reverse it? 🙁 * [Monalicia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monalicia/) * (@monalicia) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122557) * Does this help? * [http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5089/why-is-my-site-displaying-a-503-service-temporarily-unavailable-error](http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5089/why-is-my-site-displaying-a-503-service-temporarily-unavailable-error) * [Andy Templeton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andy-templeton/) * (@andy-templeton) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122558) * I am also very clueless when it comes to coding. * I have use some tech freelancers from oDesk.com. Post what you would like help with and you will get hundreds of responses. They are mostly in India. I use a guy that works for $5.65 an hour. I have seen some that work for $1.00 an hour as well as $20.00 an hour. They post their resumes, english skills and references. I have used a few of them with very good luck. I do not believe it to be exploitive of their low wages. I generally include a very nice bonus after the job is done. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122559) * In general, you don’t need to pay anyone to get to the bottom of a 503 error ( and, when you do hire someone for help with WordPress, close location is generally not necessary). * Your hosting provider should be able to help you pinpoint the cause of the 503 error. It’s either a server misconfiguration (their fault), or a particular plugin using up too many resources. * Contact GoDaddy, and they should be able to help you with this. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122561) * Your site is up – at least the front-end. Support for your theme is at [http://support.unitedthemes.com/](http://support.unitedthemes.com/) * Commercial themes are not supported here. Forum volunteers not given access to commercial products, so they would not know why your commercial theme or plugin is not working properly. This is one other reason why volunteers forward you to the commercial product’s vendors. The vendors are responsible for supporting their commercial product. * I have and still sometime look at_ WordPress for Dummies_. And this, [http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress) as recommended above by corygibbons. * Thread Starter [Bloggergrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloggergrl/) * (@bloggergrl) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122590) * Thank you all so much for your response. I’m going to take into consideration of everything that ya’ll mentioned. I tried going on my WordPress to see if just maybe something would upload and it did! * I’m not sure if its a fluke or temporary but now I can finally post some delayed reviews. But….I still don’t know why that occurred. I did find someone through a reference and James she isn’t going to charge me. She basically said the same thing with the plugin errors or possibly I have outdated something that my original designer failed to look into. * Unfortunately with Godaddy they’re not as informative as I would have hoped them to be they just send me here to figure it out. There is one representative that has been very nice enough to go a little to above and beyond but it can take a while for him to respond back so I just up being a sitting duck. Thank you again guys as I’m still trying to feel myself around this. * Mona I’m going to read up on that link too so thank you because I need be be more informative . * When y’all do a maintenance though how do you know what to maintain and what to do in order to maintain your site? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122594) * WordPress pretty much takes care of itself as far as “maintenance” in the traditional sense is concerned. The only thing I do regularly is back things up: [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups) * When something breaks, it’s most often a plugin or theme conflict, or something is messed up on your server. * WordPress has come a long way in 10 years. 🙂 Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘WordPress Newbie help!!!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [godaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/godaddy/) * [new](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/new/) * [server-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server-error/) * [Stuck](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stuck/) * [technical](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/technical/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-newbie-help/#post-5122594) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics