January 17th, 2010
- ISBN13: 9780470568132
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Install WordPress and go beyond blogging
WordPress is so flexible that developers are now tapping it to create robust applications for content, contact, and e-mail management. Whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers WordPress from the basics through advanced application development. Learn how to use custom plugins and themes, retrieve data, maintain security, use social media, and modify your blog without changing any core code. You’ll even get to know the ecosystem of products that surrounds this popular, open-source tool.
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Enhance your blog’s findability in the search engines and beyond
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Discover hooks and leverage the WordPress event-driven programming interface
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Create WordPress widgets in only a few minutes
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Explore alternate uses of WordPress
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Enhance your blog with WordPress MU
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Ensure your plugins maintain future compatibility
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Create highly customizable and dynamic themes using template tags
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Learn best security practices as a user and developer
Companion Web Site
Visit www.wiley.com/go/wordpressbible for all of the author’s example files from the book.
Install, secure, and maintain WordPress
Extend WordPress with plugins and themes
Enhance your blog with WordPress MU
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
B. Henry says:
First of all, the packaging from Amazon is poor. When order a few hundred dollars of books, you expect them to be properly packaged and arrive without the pages bent up. The book does a good job of covering Wordpress, working with templates and plugins. Fairly intermediate level on all topics. It does miss some content that is readily available on the internet, such as the new post_thumbnail functionality. The paper used in the book is cheap, ink bleeds through the pages, cause of all the ERRORS I have to make note of in the book. When I pay money for a book it should not contain as many errors as this book has. I think DigginInto WP is a better book.
Rating: 2 / 5
Ryan Duff says:
Just got a copy of WordPress Bible and thumbed through it for over an hour. The content covered in the book is amazing. Its very readable for all audiences. On top of that, there are ways to extend WordPress that you’ve probably never even heard of. The Appendices alone are about 1/4 of the book. Awesome job!
Rating: 5 / 5
E. A. Shahzade says:
The internet is an amazing source of information.
The content; tutorials, examples, narratives for virtually everything
provides an amazing level of opportunity to be informed.
For those of us who remember the pre-wired world of beloved but dusty,
stale libraries, the web of information is literally epic.
But increasingly, there’s too much information on popular subjects.
There’s spam, thin content, mistakes, incoherent reviews.
And there are many excellent posts, ebooks, videos, etc.
Interspersed throughout even the valuable resources,
there’s a lot of unreliable, unstructured info.
With WordPress Bible, Aaron has given us back
our most precious commodity; time.
He is a deep WordPress expert, so the countless hours of trial
and error and mistakes a new or intermediate user would make, are avoided.
Rather than search and read myriad(often contradictory)
resources, WordPress Bible provides a trustworthy, thorough manual
for beginner to expert online publishing with WordPress.
#WPBible includes over 600 pages of thoughtfully edited progressive
instruction, and a companion website further furnishes all code files
mentioned in this tome.
If you buy only one Wordpress resource, this should be it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Andre Elvan says:
Being a seasoned php-, and web-developer in general, I picked up this book to learn more about how I can customize and extend Wordpress and use it as a cms in my projects. Sadly, I found myself skimming through page after page of useless information.
First, on the positive side, Part II learnt me alot about making plugins, widgets and the loop, and parts of Part III was good when it comes to understanding how templates are structured and working with javascript. Unfortunatelty, the code samples have several serious bugs (yes, the ones you download from the net too), so I found myself spending alot of time trying to find the bugs by looking at similar examples elsewhere.
The rest of the book seemed very light-weight to me. Some of the chapters I was looking forward to (like chapther 20 and 21), just described plugins you can use to achieve stuff. This doesn’t really add any real value for me, I was expecting to learn the conceptual ideas behind tweaking wordpress into being used in different ways. Also, the book is 650 pages or something, but there’s not much real content in there, pages being dominated by cross-references, notes and tips.
I’ll probably keep using the book as a reference because of appendix A and B, but I regret spending so much time skimming through the book.
Rating: 2 / 5
J. Nelson says:
I bought this book for the purpose of learning how to customize a WP blog into an existing website. This book failed. It was not helpful at all. The term “bible” connotates it will be a great encompassing reference tool. It is not. It did not cover customizing a WP blog in a comprehensible manner at all.
This book may be about 600 pages with appendices but you can read it in about 3 hours. I was very unimpressed and was largely a waste of time & money imo. At this point, all I gained out of this book was how to do a couple plug-ins that are useful.
Rating: 2 / 5