Books

Due to the wpengine system being far too difficult for ageing beginners like me, it has been necessary to find other support. 

These books were the result.

1   WordPress TO GO _ Sarah McHarry here

1. Dates from 2016.
2. 143 pages
3. A book addressed to a learner by a person and not a machine.
   
4. Based on Siteground
5. Set it up but soon faced problems.  Wrote to the author who replied she is ill.
6. Wrote again on 5 July. 

2   WP for Dummies - Lisa Sabin-Wilson here more

1. A "door-stopper" and far too complicated for beginners.
2. 417 pages
3. A book addressed to the abstract beginner by a SEO of a vast company. You receive an auto-reply.
   
4. The book is useless to ageing beginners like me who have many more sites based on simple sitebuilder systems.

3   1-hour WordPress 2020 - Dr Andy Williams here

From the website

1. 1-Hour WordPress 2020 is a book that has a simple goal. 
2. Take anyone, even a complete beginner, and teach them how to build a fully functional WordPress website in an hour or less
3. An over-simplification.  The author bases the book on one WP system and directs you to an update to another system. Wrote to him and was given free access to one of his lessons.  Gave up after 30 mins.
4. It renders the book useless to ageing beginners like me who have various sites. - examples.  Have many more sites based on simple sitebuilders systems.
5. See Trying to learn WP on that page.
6. Chose the book per academic author.  Wrong choice.