Frequently Asked Questions

Not at all. You can purchase an unbranded version of Easy WP Guide in Word document format so you can easily add your own branding to it before passing on to your own clients. The guide does mention that it is written by myself (along with a translation credit for Ana Ayelén Martínez if you purchase the Spanish version), so it would be appreciated if you left that in. Also, please don't try to claim the guide as your own or that you've written the content yourself. The content is still copyrighted to myself, since I wrote it, I'm simply providing you a license to use it for the purpose of helping your clients.

Absolutely. You can use the guide as is, or if need be, add further content to it if you find there’s an area not covered sufficiently for your circumstance. You’re also free to remove sections if it doesn’t apply to your situation, such as if you hide certain Dashboard features for your clients ease.

You're free to provide the PDF version of the Easy WP Guide to your staff or students when running a training session. If you plan on providing a version with your own branding though, please follow the Fair Use Policy outlined in the FAQ's below and purchase a separate license/guide for each block of 20 clients. If you're a website hosting company or a dedicated training organisation, please get in touch to discuss generous custom licensing options.

Yep! That's exactly what the unbranded (Word Doc) version of the guide is for. You can purchase an unbranded version of Easy WP Guide in Word document format so you can easily add your own branding to it before passing on to your own clients. The guide does mention that it is written by myself (along with a translation credit for Ana Ayelén Martínez if you purchase the Spanish version), so it would be appreciated if you left that in. Also, please don't try to claim the guide as your own or that you've written the content yourself. The content is still copyrighted to myself, since I wrote it, I'm simply providing you a license to use it for the purpose of helping your clients.

The brandable WordPress manual is designed for WordPress consultants to give to clients as a form of training under a license intended for use by freelancers and small studios. If you plan on providing a version with your own branding, please follow the Fair Use Policy outlined in the FAQ's below and purchase a separate license/guide for each block of 20 clients.

If you're a website hosting company or a dedicated training organisation, please get in touch to discuss generous custom licensing options.

If you purchase the unbranded version of Easy WP Guide with the aim to add your own branding, you're free to upload a PDF version of your branded guide to your website. I simply ask that you don't make the Word Doc version available for download. That's like providing someone with the source code to your website.

The guide does mention that it is written by myself (along with a translation credit for Ana Ayelén Martínez if you purchase the Spanish version), so it would be appreciated if you left that in. Also, please don't try to claim the guide as your own or that you've written the content yourself. The content is still copyrighted to myself, since I wrote it, I'm simply providing you a license to use it for the purpose of helping your clients.

If you're not interested in branding the guide but still want to provide a link for your clients, simply add a link to the Easy WP Guide website so your clients are able to find the very latest version.

Nope! By purchasing an unbranded version of the guide, you're simply purchasing a license to use my content. You don't own the content. The content itself still belongs to me and is copyrighted to myself. It wouldn't be fair for you to profit from all my hard work, now would it.

You can provide this guide to your clients, including tweaking it for your own use if you purchase a copy of the unbranded version, but sorry, you can't simply use part of my content (incl. images) for your own website. There's an awful lot of work that goes in to keeping the guide and all my images up to date so I can't just allow people to use them on their own website.

Prior to releasing a new version of WordPress, the core developers will release a few Beta* versions followed by Release Candidate* versions. Although these versions are very close to the finished product, features have been known to be removed, added or updated even with these late versions.

So that I'm working with the very latest copy of WordPress, I wont start updating the guide content until after the first Release Candidate has been released. On top of that, depending on what has actually changed in the new version, updating the guide content can take anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks. This, unfortunately, means that any new version of the Easy WP Guide wont actually get published until a week or so after each new version of WordPress is officially released. No need to worry though, if you've signed up to our newsletter, follow Easy WP Guide on twitter or like us on Facebook, we'll let you know as soon as its been updated and ready to download!

* Beta and Release Candidate versions are part of any normal software release cycle.

The Easy WP Guide is licensed under a Fair Use Policy. In short, this license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon my work provided you purchase the unbranded version of the guide. You can provide this guide to your clients but you cannot make the guide available for sale on your website or anywhere else.

The brandable WordPress manual is designed for WordPress consultants to give to clients as a form of training under a license intended for use by freelancers and small studios. If you wish to distribute this guide to more than 20 clients, please consider the work involved in creating and updating this guide and purchase a separate $17 license for each block of 20 clients. That works out to 0.85 cents per copy! How cheap is that!!

If you’re a hosting company or training organisation looking for commercial licensing please get in touch to discuss custom options. For more information on the usage, please check out the other Frequently Asked Questions on this page.

If you're looking to hire someone for some custom WordPress development, you can get in touch with me through my business, Maddison Designs.

I've had a couple of people mention that they haven't been able to get to the checkout page and/or they've received an SSL error. Some people have received a message along the lines of “An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made” or “Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server”.

After some investigation, it appears that this is occurring on older versions of Mac OSX and Safari and is related to the Apple “Goto Fail” bug. I would highly recommend that you update your version of OSX and Safari. Alternatively, try using a more modern browser such as Chrome or Firefox.

I love providing the Easy WP Guide to people like you, to help you or your clients learn how to use WordPress but, as you can imagine, running this site costs money. Furthermore, keeping the guide updated for every single version of WordPress takes a considerable amount of time. Given that WordPress has major updates, on average three or so times a year, the time it takes to keep the guide updated as well is significant. So while it was a tough decision to make, I'm sure you can understand the need to recoup some of that cost, and hopefully if the guide is helping build your business, I hope you believe the small fee to be worth it. For a small $17 fee you can distribute the unbranded version to 20 of your clients. That amounts to only 0.85 cents per client. How cheap is that, right!?! And don’t forget, you can still download the PDF version for free as well as read all the content online!

If you’re a hosting company or training organisation looking for commercial licensing please get in touch to discuss custom options. For more information on the usage, please check out the other Frequently Asked Questions on this page.

Unfortunately not. When each new version is released, if you want to distribute the updated guide to those same clients (or new ones), you'll need to purchase the guide again (if you plan on rebranding it). As I'm sure you can appreciate, there's an enormous amount of work that goes into each and every version of the Easy WP Guide so I can't just provide continuous free updates. For 20 clients, the $17 fee only amounts to 0.85 cents per client. If the guide is helping build your business, I hope you believe the small fee to be worth it.

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't give anyone permission to include my website content on their own site. The same goes for the downloaded PDF or Word Doc versions. If someone purchases the unbranded version and then rebrands it, I'm happy for them to upload a PDF version of the rebranded guide on their site, but you can't simply transfer the content to your WordPress site. I do have a version of the guide that people can read online though. Do your clients a favour and send them to the online version so that they're reading the latest version.

The brandable WordPress manual is designed for WordPress consultants to give to clients as a form of training under a license intended for use by freelancers and small studios. If you wish to distribute this guide to more than 20 clients, please consider the work involved in creating and updating this guide and purchase a separate license/guide for each block of 20 clients.

If you’re a hosting company or training organisation looking for commercial licensing please get in touch to discuss custom options. For more information on the usage, please check out the other Frequently Asked Questions on this page.

Sure do. Head over to the Shop page and you can view all the current and previous versions of the guide that are available.

When using the Word Doc version of the guide, if you find that the page numbers in the Table of Contents (ToC) don't properly match the corresponding pages properly, you simply need to regenerate the ToC. When you open the Word Doc version of the guide, if your computer doesn't have the same font that I used when creating the doc file, Word will automatically substitute the font for one that you do have. This different font may cause the page layout to change slightly due to there being a slightly different size in the font. To fix the page numbers you simply need to regenerate the ToC again. To do this, right-click the ToC and click Update Field. A small popup will then display and you can either elect to Update page numbers only or Update entire table. If you haven't changed the content, you can simply update the page numbers. If you've added or removed content, I would recommend updating the entire table.

Whilst I don't have a sample guide that you can download, if you want to see what content is within the guide, you can simply read the online version of the guide. All the content that is within the Easy WP Guide is also available to read, for free, on this website. The online version of the guide is updated whenever a new version of the guide is released. Every page also shows the date when it was last updated.