Author:Aaron Brazell Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0470568135 Availability:
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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.
Enhance your blog's findability in the search engines and beyond
Discover hooks and leverage the WordPress event-driven programming interface
Create WordPress widgets in only a few minutes
Explore alternate uses of WordPress
Enhance your blog with WordPress MU
Ensure your plugins maintain future compatibility
Create highly customizable and dynamic themes using template tags
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
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Not a good buy on any level:
This book is not for programmers and it's not for novices. I've been a developer for decades. I'm new to Wordpress, so I bought Wordpress for Dummies - a great introduction to "using" Wordpress. Then, I decided I wanted to go deeper and check out the structure and coding opportunities within Wordpress. This book was been a huge disappointment. It is not in the same league as the other books in the "Bible" series. My advice - don't waste your money.
Another great book for Wordpress noobs:
This book is fairly comprehensive Wordpress 2.7 with a few added bits for more recent copies (not 3.0, unfortunately). It goes into a little detail about a lot and a lot of detail about a fair bit. Like all of the other tech "Bibles", it is not a gentle reader or companion, even though it is written in fairly easy to understand language. I got it as I was getting going on theme design for Wordpress and some things have come in pretty handy, but mostly, you can find all of the same information online in the... more info
Not what I expected:
I am totally new to wordpress but not in web development, I was encouraged to by this at the local bookstore(barnes & noble, sorry amazon don't want to wait) because I saw people here said good things about this book. The first few chapters is okay, although the examples are too basic but you will get the idea on how to start making your own plugins, widgets and themes. I must agree to other reviewers that the code has lots of typos or errors. The book said no worries whatever version you have, but for... more info
needed a dummies guide:
There is nothing wrong with this book if you're in IT person and coder. I needed a "dummies" book, though.
