Nowadays, when you need to know something, you google it. But what if it’s straight information you’re looking for, but a visual how-to? Well, the internet is still the answer, but there’s a wonderful little niche of How-To sites that can learn you right on how to do just about anything! 

Expert Village is the least visually attractive site on the list. They have an absolutely enormous number of videos, but this makes it a bit ungainly for browsing. I tried to search for a WordPress how-to and only came up with two videos. I found this site overall disappointing, but I suppose with if you’re interested volume, quantity can have a quality all it’s own.

5min is the Diggers favorite, with such videos as How to Make a Burning Laser, How to Hack a Vending Machine. There’s  quite a bit to learn on this site, though most of the videos could hardly be called educational. You can search the site either by video, or by Users (Studios) and they’ll give you a list of the top Users, and a main page full of categorized posts. There are 47 videos about optimizing a WordPress blog alone, so again, I think you’ll be able to find what you’re looking for. 5min raised 5 million dollars in January in Series A financing, essentially guaranteeing it will be around for a while.

Wonderhowto sports a fun interface and a very large number of videos. There are 36 categories and all of them have nearly one thousand videos, and some even top ten thousand. They’ve split up the main page by Fresh (new) Hidden Gems (overlooked) Hot (popular) and Top Grade. As a member, you’re allowed to grade the videos. While some of the content is more for entertainment than education, the massive amount of content paired with a pretty good search feature mean you’ll find what you’re looking for. A good example of this is when you put in “How to Play Poker” you end up with 343 videos, and the top 20 are lessons on how to play, or how to improve your game. When I searched for WordPress, I ended up with 89 videos, by far the greatest number of the three sites I reviewed today.

There are many other how-to sites on the internet, I simply chose the three I’d read about the most, or had personal experience with. They represent three tiers of performance, and usability. By Far, Wonderhowto is the best, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t others out there offering different video. So while this is a good place to start, the best method would be to use all three, and keep looking. Good luck!