WordPress Bible
WordPress Bible Product Description
Install WordPress and go beyond blogging
WordPress is so flexible that developers are now tapping it to create robut sapplications 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
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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
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
I have purchased some of the Bible computer book series in the past and have generally found them to be useful for whatever level of experience and expertise one might have.
This Bible is different. Unless you are very sophisticated in the world of coding, web/blog construction, don’t even think of getting this book. If you wish to build a blog buy a different book. If you wish to build widgits, plugins, or other code-level structures, this is for you.
I wanted to build a moderately sophisticated blog using wordPress and feel that I totally wasted my $31.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you are just starting out with WordPress, then the best book I’ve found for that is Lisa Sabin Wilson’s “WordPress For Dummies” (WPD). WPD will carry you surprisingly far into the installation, use, maintenance and extension of WordPress. It is now in its second edition with a third expected soon.
For most people, WPD will suffice.
But If your needs are more demanding, then Aaron Brazell’s “WordPress Bible” is a good place to go.
Brazell gets much deeper under the WordPress hood than Sabin-Wilson. – and this content is not for the neophyte.
The content is eclectic, with a lot of emphasis on building plugins. Installing WordPress is covered, but not in the same supportive way you’ll find in WPD. Some chapters are head-scratchers: why are nine pages devoted to the WordPress help system (“Codex”) and other support groups? Chapters like “Extending WordPress with Plugins”, “Widgetizing WordPress”, “Understanding the WordPress Database Class” and the doozy “Dissecting the Loop and WP_Query” give you what you need to know to write and manage plugns. Another chapter talks about using WordPress as a Content Management System, which I found helpful, and wish was three times longer.
Overall, “WordPress Bible” is a valuable addition to any serious WordPress library. My one criticism of the book is about Wiley, the publisher: they have a adopted a design that makes it look as if the type is printed in gray, which I find very difficult to read for more than a few minutes at a time. Wiley does not respond to customer comments. Because of this flaw, I will buy Wiley books only when they appear to be best in class.
Jerry
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the perfect companion to your keyboard and mouse as you dive into WordPress to not only write blog posts, but create plugins, create themes, work with functions, create widgets and more. This is very easy to read, it’s updated up to 2.9 version and nothing will be different when 3.0 comes out as it does cover other things like WordPress MU and buddypress. I love this book and was looking forward to it so bad, I drove across the state to pick up the only copy left in NJ. Congrats to Aaron on a great piece of work and I am glad i heard of it on the wptavern podcast.
Rating: 5 / 5