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WordPress 3 Complete 49303rd Edition

by April Hodge Silver (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars 29
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  3. Edition
    49303rd
  4. Publisher
    Packt Publishing
  5. Publication date
    January 21, 2011
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    7.5 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches
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About the Author

April Hodge Silver

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.

In her free time, April enjoys developing recipes in the kitchen, bicycling, and relaxing with her daughter, dog, and darlin wife.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1849514100
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing; 49303rd edition (January 21, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781849514101
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849514101
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 out of 5 stars 29

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fafield
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2011
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Are you interested in building your own website / blog based on WordPress 3? I highly recommend this book as a complete introduction to WordPress for those wishing to roll their own sites. This clearly can be a very broad topic and the author gets the balance right between breadth and depth. While this sometimes leads to terse discussions of topics, it does make the book far more readable and, with care, one discovers that even the terse discussions provide enough insight to provide access to the capability in WordPress. While I do have considerable experience in computing, I had zero prior experience with WordPress, no experience in php and only limited experience in html. With the aid of this book I was able to build my own site after a fast cover-to-cover reading with additional in-depth re-reading of specific topics in the book and through links to the wordpress.org codex.

How could the book be improved? I would like to see more examples of tailoring / modifying themes to meet specific needs. Perhaps that can be the topic of a next book from this capable author.
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qiuquepr69
4.0 out of 5 stars The simplest book to understand about Wordpress.
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2011
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The book is really good, for people that never work with wordpress. It will guide you to every process including how to install your own theme. Simplicity at its best, chapters are well explain and it will teach the different ways to install workpress.
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John R. Bradford
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2011
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I have found this book to be totally useless when I was searching for Wordpress.com information. For example, when I searched for information about specific Widgets, I found only an image of the Dashboard Widgets page and no details about any of the specific widgets. Save your money and go to the Wordpress.com site for detailed info and videos.
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greytourist
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2011
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The glowing reviews that induced me to purchase this book have been followed by reviews that more closely mirror my own disappointment. Indeed, the book is concise, easy to read, and covers a lot of stuff appropriate to wordpress.org users, but is far too vague in guiding the user through the details of wordpress website implementation. Chapter 10, pertaining to setting up a non-blog or mixed website using wordpress as a CMS, one of the claimed strengths of the book, is particularly irritating. It basically throws out working with potentially capable available themes and dives straight into hard-core html and css coding. Many users of Wordpress, particularly the beginners that this book claims to be written for, would appreciate and might be better served by a less draconian approach that capitalizes on the excellent theme programming that is already out there.
I would characterize the book less as a detailed tutorial and guide to Wordpress and more as a general overview better used by the "IT-confident user" mentioned in passing in the introduction to leverage his/her html and css coding skills "to produce an impressive website". Indeed, much of the details seem to have been left to a companion guide often referenced in the text.
In truth, I have found no Wordpress guidebooks that have been both truly tutorial and truly comprehensive in their approach such that the Wordpress codex, that confusing cornucopia of infomration, either need not be referenced or can be utilized more effectively. It appears that the world of html/css and Wordpress programming is changing so rapidly that it is extremely difficult for any printed guidebook to be adequate to the task of training beginners wanting to do anything but simple blogging. It seems that the only practical way to get something special done in Wordpress, like in Joomla or Drupal, is to pay an expert to help you, and to preface that with a good hands-on course on basic html/css coding. Book-learning? Phfah.
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Sjwils
5.0 out of 5 stars Who needs WordPress for Dummies?!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2011
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Don't even bother with WordPress for Dummies when WordPress 3 Complete is an awesome tool with visuals and complete guide to designing and developing websites! My co-workers have the WordPress for Dummies and guess who's book they want to borrow now? Yeah, get your own buddy! I love it!
- sjwils
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M. Winnert
3.0 out of 5 stars It's Okay
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2013
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With WordPress you have to have a site already hosted and this program on it. I don't have that so I didn't find it as helpful as I would have liked.
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Big Red
5.0 out of 5 stars good guide
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2013
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Helpful, informative but not overwhelming. Easy to follow and understand. I would recommend it to people who need to learn word press, with or without additional schooling.
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AJG
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2013
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Very readable but no obvious advantages over the on-line documentation.
A good read however, so if you want a paper book, this is good.
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Mario Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Utile
Reviewed in Italy on November 22, 2016
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Questo libro mi e' stato Utile per lavoro.
Ben scritto, m ain lingua originale quindi sconsigliato a chi non conosce bene l'inglese.
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peter caines
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect book to give you good foundations with wordpress
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2012
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i got this book after being disappointed with "smashing wordpress - beyond the blog". what a difference, it is filled with the fundamental aspects to get your wordpress website (or blog) up and running.

The thing l liked most is that you actually build a working website as you go through the chapters, i already had a website design of my own, so i just replaced their demo site with my design, and it was fine.

Great for both Beginners and experts, although i recommend knowing css and html. It does cover PHP but it tells your step by step what to write so dont let this scare you off.

Perfect book that leaves you wanting to know what else can wordpress do!!!
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Dragutin Jukic
2.0 out of 5 stars The author wasn't up to the main task to show readers how to make web site in WORDPRESS although she hinted that by book title.
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2013
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Too much usless talk,not practical teaching..She should teach reader how to build website.That is the title of the book,Teach readers by one general,(common ) example of websiteUntill all website function ara done.That would be very helpful and practical teaching.Than author would still have time and space to paralel practical showing with pure tecnical(professional jargon.This way readers would uderstand much faster tecnical presentation. Thank You for giving me chance to say my opinion.
Drago( Charly) Vancouver, 02/11/2013
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Annika
2.0 out of 5 stars only for blogs
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2013
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From the reviews I expected to be able to set up and customize a static web site using info in the book. Seemed like good info for setting up a blog but no detailed information about a normal web site, or how to customize themes. It pretty much jumped from the blog info to how to develop your own theme, with a LOT missing in between. Found much better infoon the wordpress web site. Will be sending it back.
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