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Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) Reviews
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This is a really comprehensive resource for all aspects of WordPress customisation, with extensive information on advanced template development, and LOTS of explanation on how the various page elements work. There are countless PHP examples given which you can use straight away in your site, although if you’re not au fait with PHP, the author provides plenty of explanatory notes to go along with them. The sections on producing widgets and plugins is particularly clear and thorough.
You can really go into this completely ‘cold’ in terms of WordPress development – there are some fantastic chapters on the basic under-the-hood workings of WordPress, particularly ‘The Loop’. It’s definitely the most accessible introduction / explanation of this that I’ve come across, and it’s really helped me to ‘get’ WordPress.
What’s nice is that it’s not written with a purely technical focus, but there are also some nice chapters on real world uses of WordPress – pushing it beyond the blog, and using it, amongst other things, as a fully-fledged Content Management System. The book is chock-full of ideas for squeezing the most out of your installation.
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Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) Reviews
Aimed at the experienced user wanting more from their self-hosted WordPress site, this book is for someone who is at easy with reading snippets of PHP, CSS and HTML code. Someone who has no problem listening to an expert talk freely about their specialist subject and someone who is familiar with the concepts about which the expert speaks. Unfortunately, that someone is not me.
I wasn’t expecting such a high level book; my heart sank when I realised. If you are a developer or a hacker then I am sure you will love this book.
I was hoping for some simple techniques or step-by-step techniques to go `beyond the blog’. As it is, this book is beyond my understanding.
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Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) Reviews
This book is helping me craft a website for someone, it’s been a really valuable resource. Clearly written and not patronising. It’s packed full of features that make it very easy to create the site you want from Word Press.
Given that a lot of hosting companies will install WP for you for free, saving you the hassle, or the knowledge if you don’t have it, being able to customise your install is the next step on the ladder. With so many impressive templates out there, it’s always nice to be able to create something yourself, without the reliance on other people. This book gives you the toolbox to be able to make a start on that.
As the author points out, it’s useful to have some knowledge of CSS, HTML and PHP before you start. I wouldn’t say this book is for the absolute beginner, but it’s very helpful if you know a bit of code, but don’t know how to turn it into the skills you really need to build a WP site. Well done. Miles better than the SAMS teach yourself in 24 hours books.
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Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) Reviews
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