Wordpress 3 Complete
This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who have slightly more advanced knowledge of WordPress. If you are new to blogging and want to create your own blog or website in a simple and straightforward manner, then this book is for you. It is also for people who want to learn to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress website. You do not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to pro
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The title says it all: this is a book about WordPress 3, and all of it. Almost all aspects of this famous CMS are explained, although of course some of those are just introduced with external links to resources (other books or web sites) which go deeper into the subject. From install, to configuration, to themes, to widget and plugins, the overview is quite complete and the book is worth its title.
Any WordPress user, from non-tech beginners to advanced developers, can benefit from this book. People who never used WordPress before can have a little difficulty in keeping the pace, but browsing through this book can give them a clear glimpse of its features.
I really enjoyed this book. The author knows what she’s talking about. She’s a knowledgeable WordPress user and also a good developer, and she can speak of different topics with accuracy. When she gives external links for more in-depth resoorces, you have the feeling that the only reason is because she would end up doing a 600-pages book; certainly, not because she wouldn’t be able to go deeper herself.
Writing is clear and understandable; given code and pictures are well-crafted. One of the best tech books i read.
If you work on the web, you simply have to know what WordPress is and how it works, and this is surely a very good book about it.
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WordPress 3 Complete
The reference to the word “complete” in this book’s title correctly suggests that almost anyone can read (preferably re-read) and then apply what is learned when creating a website or blog “from scratch.” In may case, I had retained professionals to do much of the work for me but reading this book as well as others published by Packt to become a much better-informed and more effective contributor to our collaboration. After identifying the “what” of that process, she devotes the bulk of her attention to the “how” and occasionally the “why.”
Chapter 1: A “super easy-to-use” briefing on what WordPress offers.
2: How to complete WP instalations and connections
3: How to add and then manage content
4: A briefing/walk-through on non-blogging content and applications
5: How to manage the website’s basic look
6: How to make your own theme (i.e. design and layout)
7: A briefing/walk-through on RSS feeds and podcasting
8: A briefing/walk-through on developing plugins and widgets
9: How to manage members of a community of users
10: How to create a non-blog website
11: Coverage of most important administrator tasks for WP-driven website
Note: I invoke the term “walk-through” for Chapters 4, 7 and 8 because Silver literally accompanies her reader through a step-by-step sequence to complete hundreds of incremental tasks that first involve installations and then modifications and refinements.
I also appreciate so much the fact that, whenever appropriate, Silver and her associates create a context, a frame-of-reference, when explaining how and why one (apparently small) component functions in rekationshion (i.e. coordination) with others. This is especially true of explanations of plugins and cross-connections such as are now being developed at my website [] that involve book reviews, interviews, and commentaries.
I also highly recommend other PACKt texts such as WordPress Theme Design, WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, and WordPress 3.0 jQuery. By no means have I gained a complete understanding of all that these books cover. Fortunately, I can rely on others for the expertise that I lack. However, to repeat, a careful reading of books such as these provide the information and guidance non-technicians such as I need to understand (a) options to consider and what they offer, (b) trade-offs and the probably implications of each, and (c) the most appropriate issues to keep in mind when working with professionals.
Those who purchase this book are provided with a wealth of value-added benefits and supplementary resources that are identified on Page 4 and then at various piints throughout the narrative.
I commend April Hodge Silver as well as her associates on their ability to guide a non-technician such as I to what Oliver Wendell Holmes once characterized as “the other side of complexity.” She does not dumb down the material. Rather, she carefully and (yes) patiently guides her reader through what would probably be a difficult process.
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WordPress 3 Complete
This book is well laid out and explains the core topics well.
However it is not for complete beginners, since when you get to Chapter 6, it assumes that you know how to edit HTML and CSS code.
The book also refers you to other Packt Publications, so the ‘Complete’ word in the title is a bit misleading.
It is still a good book, but some prior knowledge is needed.
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