WordPress Complete Book: set up, customize, and market your blog
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
From the Publisher’s web site: 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.
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.
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April 30th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Is this book really worth it? I just started my blog and it needs help.
Charlie
April 30th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
It’s great for blogs created using Wordpress (www.wordpress.org), but your blog is a “Blogger” blog.
You’d probably be better off with a book like this:
Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide