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WordPress 3 Complete

By : April Hodge Silver
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WordPress 3 Complete

By: April Hodge Silver

Overview of this book

<p>Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.</p> <p><em>Wordpress 3 Complete</em> will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website.</p> <p><em>WordPress 3 Complete</em> begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website.</p> <p>Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site – from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you'll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website.</p> <p>Once you're done with <em>WordPress 3 Complete</em>, you'll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 3 Complete
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Grigore Alexandru is a XHTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT programmer, with major WordPress knowledge and coding skills, currently working at OSF-Global Services in Romania. He is currently studying at the FEAA College in the A.I Cuza University in Iasi, Romania, learning economical sciences.

Alex perfected his skills during the work at OSF-Global services, learning in depth about CSS/XHTML coding skills, as well as jQuery programming and other web based tech. Currently, Alex is developing for the company at which he currently works and also for ThemeForest WordPress and HTML sections.

Srikanth AD is a web developer, SEO consultant, and tech blogger. He is passionate about web development and optimizing websites for better search engine visibility and ranking.

He contributes articles and reviews pertaining to web design trends, web applications, and other resources across multiple blogs. He has written articles for some of the popular blogs, such as MakeUseOf, TheNextWeb, QuickOnlineTips, and 1stWebDesigner.

Portfolio: http://www.srikanth.techonaut.com.

Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group.