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Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.
Wordpress 3 Complete will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website.
WordPress 3 Complete begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website.
Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site – from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you'll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website.
Once you're done with WordPress 3 Complete, you'll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site.
This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and enhance your blog or website using WordPress.
Wordpress 3 Complete will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website.
WordPress 3 Complete begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website.
Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site – from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you'll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website.
Once you're done with WordPress 3 Complete, you'll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site.
This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and enhance your blog or website using WordPress.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When an author puts the word 'Complete' as the title of a book one expects there to be nothing left out. Unfortunately, the author does seem to leave a lot out. And the coverage that is there is quite slim.
Overall the writing style is good. However I did have some trouble following the code samples as they seemed to be just cut and pasted in, with little regard to formatting. It can make them a bit difficult to follow.
I would have appreciated more coverage of templates. Overriding the functions.php file. There is some slight coverage of this but it is just in passing. There does not appear to be any coverage of control panels on themes - which was dissapointing.
For a book describing itself as complete - it isn't. Perhaps in the next edition the author can add in more content and it could get closer to complete.
But as a book for a quick start it is fine.
Overall the writing style is good. However I did have some trouble following the code samples as they seemed to be just cut and pasted in, with little regard to formatting. It can make them a bit difficult to follow.
I would have appreciated more coverage of templates. Overriding the functions.php file. There is some slight coverage of this but it is just in passing. There does not appear to be any coverage of control panels on themes - which was dissapointing.
For a book describing itself as complete - it isn't. Perhaps in the next edition the author can add in more content and it could get closer to complete.
But as a book for a quick start it is fine.
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Not very advanced - for the beginner
I thought that it would be more comprehensive, but it is basically a guide to set up and cusomize a wordpress-site or -blog from scratch, and it is perfect for those who has little... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Enox
Good, but not for Complete Beginners
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... Read more
However it is not for complete beginners, since when you get to Chapter 6, it assumes that you know how to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by MC SPANNER
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