WordPress Complete: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress
Product Description
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress
- Clear practical coverage of all aspects of WordPress
- Concise, clear, and easy to follow, rich with examples
- In-depth coverage of installation, themes, syndication, and podcasting
In Detail
WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.
If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.
You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog. In working through the book you’ll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.
What you will learn from this book?
- Installing and configuring WordPress on a local development machine or a web hosting service
- Managing posts and comments
- Working with Image galleries, calendars, etc.
- Organizing users and Communities
- Creating and Installing themes to control the page layout
- Linking to the outside world – Feeds, Syndication, and Podcasting
- Customizing Widgets and Plug-ins
- Using WordPress as a regular CMS
Approach
Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, the book takes you through the essential tasks required to create a feature-rich blog as quickly as possible. From initial setup to customizing modules, each task is explained in a clear, practical way using an example blog developed through the book.
Who this book is written for?
This book is a beginner’s guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to produce an impressive blog.
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This practical, hands-on book takes you from the basics of WordPress to how to modify important WordPress elements such as the sidebar. I have learned more from this book than I have from a year of culling through the online WordPress documentation.
Rating: 5 / 5
For $35, I expected something with far more detail and information. I’m a beginner to Wordpress, but I program in other languages. The book gave a bit of an overview, but in the end, I got what I really needed on the help pages.
Rating: 3 / 5
Hello,
i run several projects on the web.
Allthough i am not a programmer i always have to look about the
trends in programming and what is possible to reach and what is not.
Haydins book even let me make helpful changes in wordpress. Its a great guideline.
Higly recommended
Thank you for that. Jochen
Rating: 5 / 5
The two books :
WordPress Complete by Hasin Hayder
and
WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
are worthwhile sources for the individual that lacks the expertise to setup the WordPress program. Now don’t misunderstand what I say next. If you are a complete novice, get the books. Be fully aware that both books will NOT be sufficient to reach normal insanity while getting WordPress setup, if you’re requirements go beyond the norm. Am familiar to Blogging and a bit aware of WordPress usage, but it became a total nightmare to reach the results that I was looking for. Seriously lacking are examples of “how and where” to actually insert / place what was being expounded upon. Seemed that every set of “how to” was chopped off at the most critical point and leaves one floundering and frustrated, Both books and even the official sites lack the explicit “where to insert” the talked on code. Many so called experts suffer from the “I know it so well” syndrome” that they overlook the “critical” aspect from a novices point of view. To have elaborated on a specific subject, without giving the most crucial bit of information “showing an example of where” is, to me a cardinal offense. It is recognized that it is near impossible to cover every detail required for total success with an installation, but what is covered, SHOULD be presented with clear and full details. There is no middle ground here. You are either sailing along smoothly, or you are floundering from lack of crucial details. I was in the latter group. WordPress by the way is a neat program, and for most users, will be relatively easy to master. If you have certain specific needs, be prepared to sweat it through, along with much aggravation.
Rating: 3 / 5
Wordpress Complete book is full of promise but doesn’t quite live up to my expectations.
Still, it’s not bad.This book helped me to install and configure all the tools needed to get a development Wordpress site running at home.
This book really does a fine job of explaining what the out of the box tools can do and how the plug-in modules can further improve your online blog. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in building an online blog since WordPress and all the tools required are open source (free) and in many ways better than the costly competition.
My only criticism is that the author doesn’t explain how the plug-in actually works. he just provide the plug-in and doesn’t explain the logic of code. For example most of the plug-in that he introduce begin with add_filter() function but he doesn’t tell what add_filter() does and how the plug-in integrate into your WordPress system. However the online community was a tremendous help when I ran into a problem.
Rating: 3 / 5