WordPress Complete: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress (Paperback)
Product Description
WordPress is a simple and powerful way to start blogging. If you’re not an IT expert but want to use a state of the art blogging system to give your blog the best chance of success, while giving you the time to focus on content and your readers, WordPress is the right system for you, and this book is the right place to start. It will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and get you up and running with a state of the art blog as quickly and painlessly as possible.
WordPress is an open source blog engine released under 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 for make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximise its impact.
From this book you’ll learn about:
- Installing and configuring WordPress on a local development machine or a web hosting service
- Managing posts and comments
- Working with Image galleries, calendars, etc.
- Organising users and Communities
- Creating and Installing themes to control the page layout
- Linking to the outside world – Feeds, Syndication, and Podcasting
- Customising Widgets and Plugins
- Using WordPress as a regular CMS
Written in a clear, easy to read style, the book takes you 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.
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.
The table of contents is:
- WordPress and the World of Blogging
- Getting Started with WordPress
- Choosing and Installing a Theme
- Blog Your Heart Out
- Non-Blog Content
- Feeds, Syndication, and Podcasting
- Getting the Theme Tailor-Made for You
- Managing Users and Building Communities
- Widgets and Plugins
- Administrator’s Reference
About the Author
Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and expert in developing localized applications. He is currently working as a Technical Director in Trippert Labs and managing the local branch in Bangladesh. Beside his full time job, Hasin writes his blog at http://hasin.wordpress.com, writes article in different websites and maintains his open source framework Orchid at http://orchid.phpxperts.net. Hasin lives in Bangladesh with his wife Ayesha and his son, Afif.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Over-priced
For $35, I expected something with far more detail and information. I’m a beginner to WordPress, but I program in other languages.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nightmare In ProgressThe two books :
WordPress Complete by Hasin Hayder
and
WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
are worthwhile sources for the individual that…
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for beginning WordPress developers, bad for the rest of the world.
This book is over-priced, padded with useless screenshots and poorly edited. The first 100 pages – and some of the back hundred for that matter – are filled with distracting…
“Complete” in no way describes this book. I have yet to find any mention of tagging, sessions, pages, or many other important aspects of WP. Part of the problem is that the book’s index is almost non-existent. In all fairness, the author says that the book is for beginners; that said, the author spends far too much time reiterating the easy stuff (installation, how to create a basic blog entry, etc) that is explained for free on the WP web site (and dare I say in a much clearer way). Also, the figures look like they were printed-on-demand on a laser printer; this is not acceptable for a price tag like this (cf. O’Reilly’s production values). I returned it right away.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Unbelievably bad writing
It’s true that this book does have some useful information for those who are just starting out with WordPress; however, the writing is so bad that it’s almost painful to read…
This book reads more like a hardcopy of a bloggers notes to another blogger on how to install and customize WordPress. It spends more time glossing over descriptions and screenshots of other blog software and discussing the perceived shortcomings of WordPress mu (multi-user) than in discussing how to actually customizing a WordPress installation.
The screenshots often are on different pages than the text they go with, and most examples where the user might include more than a line or two of text simply copy and paste a single line over and over, usually extolling the virtues of the book’s publisher (which joins several others on my list to avoid in the future.)
Several pages are spent covering how to use several FTP clients, yet none is spent on the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), one of the core needs for any meaningful customization of a WordPress site.
Very little of the WordPress API is discussed.
The author “explains” creating your own “widget” with very little description of what they are, and virtually none of why you would do so. He then follows with a sample of a “plug-in”, yet a widget is in fact a specialized plug-in, so why are they presented in the reverse order? Very little is also done in terms of explaining how to customize a theme to allow the use of widgets, outside of providing a complete sidebar code page without showing which line(s) of code are the actual widget-enabling ones.
I realize that this is not a book about CSS or PHP, but neither is it a book about ftp software, which is after all a lot easier to use, yet more time is spent on how to use FTP than is spent on how to customize an existing theme.
Appears to be the better of the two books currently on the market that detail installing WordPress, but far from complete. Definitely needs a better editing job at the least. Certainly not worth $39.99.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly written and overpriced.
The author may have mastered WordPress, but he has not mastered the English language. The book often reads like a grade school book report.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Overpriced for Less Than Adequate Book
This book is written by an author with English as a second language, and it’s not difficult to tell English is not his native language, as the book is poorly written.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Practical, Hands-on Book!
This practical, hands-on book takes you from the basics of WordPress to how to modify important WordPress elements such as the sidebar.
The reason for me to buy this book was for the information on how to develop your own themes. But that information isn’t presented well. The coding example starts off relatively easy and well explained, but before long, it doesn’t really teach anything as much as it just tells you to plug in chunks of code into your files and then see what happens. And the book changes coding conventions to an abbreviated form somewhere along the way, just when it starts to get a bit complicated for a non-coder like me.
The rest of the book is all filler. Did you know that blog mean Web-Log? And that a person who blogs is a blogger? Well, if you didn’t, then the book might be worth its high price tag. But I just told you, so now you do.
I’m just grumpy because I lost my receipt and can’t return it now (bought mine offline).
Want to Develop your own wordpress theme?
Urban Giraffe’s article, tho old, has way better and more relevant information than this book. And it’s free.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Got me up and running in a couple of days
A very good introduction to getting WordPress functioning, and more importantly, installed in my mind so it actually makes sense to me.
5.0 out of 5 stars
WordPress complete
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…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Complete WordPress Book
WordPress is one of them any blogging tools out there today, but has gained steady popularity the past year or so and has lots of flexibility in terms of customizing it.