Last week Simon decided he wanted to download WordPress (and MAMP) for his new laptop, too, and did it in something like one hour, maybe even less. Something that cost us both nearly three days the first time. He proceeded to building a “Learning WordPress” website and carried on for two days, until he got stuck. Says he will come back to this project at a later stage.
Here Simon tells me how he is going to turn his website into a blog using the REST API:
Geeks out of the box 