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WordPress Bible |  | Author: Aaron Brazell
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 58104
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 672
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0470568135
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
EAN: 9780470568132
ASIN: 0470568135
Publication Date: February 8, 2010
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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. -
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 Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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 Intermediate book that gives a good overview of the functionality September 8, 2010
Scott L. Petrovic (St. Louis, MO)
This book is pretty good. The author does a good job covering the topics he presents and makes them easy to understand. It also talks about security, setting up server configuration files, backing up databases, data cleansing, and other best practices. The main issue I have is the lack of depth of so many different areas of the CMS. Wordpress is so massive, that I can see why this book is not exhaustive. The word "Bible" is such a high bar in my mind, maybe nothing will really be able to size up to that word.
After reading this book, I feel that it is a good launching pad to do other research into plugin development, theme development, and customizing Wordpress with different plugins or installations (Wordpress MU, Buddypress, etc). I can tell actually doing it will take much more research and effort than what is explained in the book (I have also read a Wordpress theme development book that confirms my suspicion).
I would recommend this book for intermediate web developers who are wondering what types of things Wordpress can do. It won't get too technical, but enough that you can see how it operates. You can take what you want and buy other books that are more specialized after that.
 Not a good buy on any level August 17, 2010
Edward Hansen
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 July 27, 2010
Michael L. Olivier (Asheville, NC)
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 Wordpress Codex. The pictures in the book are nice, but in black and white which makes it a little less attractive.
Overall, worth it for someone who is wanting to get started in the guts of Wordpress. A good addition to all of the (free) online tools, how-to tutorials, and the like.
 Not what I expected July 12, 2010
J. Francisco (CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 me as new to wordpress it is a big deal especially when the code breaks(just go to [...] and search the topic).
The back cover says "Whether you're a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers WordPress from the basics through advanced application development". Programming pro, I don't think so! samples are not that impressive to consider you as a programming pro or even entry level programmer! a blogger more likely.
This book is totally not for wordpress developer or designer. The book will only give you lots of idea on what the wordpress can do and best practices on how to make a wordpress blog site(sorry Aaron and those people from the credits page).
needed a dummies guide June 25, 2010
Jayme M. Soulati (Dayton, OH)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is nothing wrong with this book if you're in IT person and coder. I needed a "dummies" book, though.
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