Product Description

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. This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who are slightly more advanced. It's for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner, and it's also for people who want to learn how to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress web site. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9809 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

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.

April has been designing and developing new web sites from scratch since 1999, just before her graduation from Columbia University. Early in her career, she worked for several web companies and startups, including DoubleClick and About.com. Since 2004, she has been self-employed through her company Springthistle Design and has worked with a staggering variety of companies, non-profits, and individuals to realize their web site dreams. In her professional work, April's focus is always on usability, efficiency, flexibility, clean design, and client happiness. WordPress is the best solution for many of Springthistle's Clients, though April also develops custom web applications using PHP and MySQL. More about April's professional work at http://springthistle.com. In her free time, April enjoys developing recipes in the kitchen, bicycling, and relaxing with her daughter, dog, and darlin's wife.

Customer Reviews

Perfect for people new to WordPress
WordPress 2.7 is a perfect primer for people who have experience with the web, but not with WordPress. It covers everything from download, installation and usage, to more advanced topics such as creating your own WordPress themes and plugins. It covers all the basics quite thoroughly and is very easy to read and understand.

It may say it's for WordPress 2.7 in the title but 90% of the stuff in the book will be relevant for a good couple of years. It's not that relevant for more experienced WordPress developers, but for people new to WordPress and people who want to get into blogging it would be a great head start.

Good starting point
This is a pretty good basics guide to getting to know Wordpress and is defiantly useful for anyone starting out with it, although you can learn all of this online as Wordpress has a really good community if you prefer books this is a good way to go.

I was hoping it would be more technical about how to use Wordpress functions when making themes which it did to some degree but not as much as I would have liked, I think the Designing Wordpress Themes book by the same publisher would be better for what I was looking for although I've not read that yet.

Still a good book if you're looking for the basics of Wordpress and how to use, install and design basic themes. Good starting off point before learning more on the Internet as you need to.