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Don't let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson.
This book is the perfect guide to
- Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
- Installing WordPress
- Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
- Working with the text editor
- Styling paragraphs and creating lists
- Working with media files
- Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
- Working with image galleries
- Adding video and audio
- Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
- Making your site stand out
- Helping others connect to your site
- Becoming search engine friendly
- Optimizing your site
- Backing up your site
- Installing and activating plugins
From the Back Cover
A unique introduction to building web sites with WordPress
WordPress is today's most popular open source blog publishing application, but its powerful features, simple interface, and easy expansion make it a great content management system for all types of web sites. This unique book-and-video package provides you with beginner-friendly tutorials for building and maintaining a WordPress web site. You'll discover how to customize WordPress to meet your needs and you'll see how critical—and simple—it is to expand and update content in order to make your site as effective as possible.
Walks you through installing the software, provides an overview of the administration interface, and covers the basic settings you'll need to get started
Examines the ins and outs of uploading images, video, documents, etc., and using them on your site
Demonstrates how to customize the look of your site using cascading style sheets
Reviews helpful techniques for optimizing your site and making it search-engine friendly
Explains how to track your site's statistics, keep your plugins and themes up to date, and practice smart backup habits
Addresses installing, activating, and troubleshooting plugins
Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
On the DVD
Don't just learn—do!
The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.
You'll learn to:
Plan your site for WordPress
Write and add a new post
Handle revisions
Add new pages & sub pages
Work with image galleries
Manage media files, posts, categories, and widgets
Link to other sites
Approve, edit, and delete comments
Customize the design and layout
Optimize your content
Extend WordPress
Please see the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.
Inside This Book
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5.0 out of 5 stars
24 Hour Trainer. No kidding.,
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This review is from: WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Paperback)
I found the author to be clear, concise and to the point. It was an easy read enabling me to launch a website, yes that's right, simply by learning the WordPress tool. The book was organized in a way where I could build my competencies for what I needed to do quickly,getting up and running, and then fine-tune my skills as needed. I really liked the videos, as they were another way (for me) to learn the material. Excellent Resource.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Common sense teaching,
By B. Com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Paperback)
I was somewhat hesitant to buy a tutorial book that had not been reviewed yet (this book is copyright 2010 and came out Dec. 09), but I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised. This book offers from-the-ground-up instruction with all the basics from how to install Wordpress to customizing a template.The author, George Plumley, has a pleasant style that is neither condescending to the newbie or goofy like I have found some of the "yellow books" to be. I haven't found any fluff here, just solid step-by-step advice and lessons. I really was just following along and not thinking about whether the book is "good" or "bad", just going through it. Then, in Lesson 7: Working with the Text Editor, I found myself recognizing one of the many gems in this book. As someone who has struggled with more than one text editor until I found out that if you copy/paste from someplace else you need to get rid of the formatting first, I know that this author had the non-geek in mind when he wrote this. His advice is to open a text program such as Notepad and paste the text in there, then copy/paste from Notepad into the editor in Wordpress and the excess coding will be stripped away. Now, this is basic information for a lot of people, but remember the first time you tried to figure out why that Word formatting kept showing up in your Wordpress text editor? Yes, this author had that person in mind and gently drops in a paragraph with a couple of sentences in it addressing the problem and suggesting a solution. I have hired a designer to do websites in Wordpress for a couple of clients and I wanted to learn to do it myself. I am confident that I'll be able to do it myself next time, thanks to the information provided in this book. The author spends some time going over some of the basics of site planning and organization, basic design, SEO, and backups. If you are a budding website builder, you'll get a lot of time-tested information here. Yes, many books go deeper into each of these subjects, but for the person wanting to put their first site together or get a refresher on the basics, why buy another book if you don't have to? There's plenty of meat to digest here. The CD is a great bonus, too. If you have dabbled with Wordpress but knew you were only scratching the surface, do yourself a favor and invest in this book. Certainly, there are those that will say that all of this information is available for free on the web. Yeah, but not in step-by-step form and not in a format you can carry along with you when you're waiting somewhere or need to find the information quickly. I don't know this author, but I do know that if he writes any other books about a subject that I'm interested in, I'm quite likely to buy it based on my experience with this book/CD combo. I buy and read a lot of techy type books and if I ever owned a book that deserves "6 stars", this is it. This is the gold standard by which all tech-related books should be measured for common sense writing style. 34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding Source for using Wordpress,
By D. Rosenberg - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Paperback)
I am just amazed at how thorough this book is, yet how easy it is to use and understand. Everything is in layman's terms and shown, as well as having written explanations.I was initially bummed at the price of the book but now that I'm using it I realize what an absolute STEAL it is at this price. I am SO thankful I found this guide. 22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful tool,
By M. Fulkerson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Paperback)
Pre-release customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program
This "24-hour trainer" guide in how to optimize your Wordpress page is not only incredibly helpful, but it's easy to understand and follow along. I have been managing a Wordpress site for about a year now, and while experience is always the best way to learn, this book will be a huge help for beginners. Those who have been maintaining a Wordpress site might not be willing to splurge on this book, but I think even the most experienced Wordpress bloggers can find value in what it has to offer.For one, EVERYthing is covered in this book, even things you wouldn't think of. The troubleshooting in this book is intuitive, and doesn't necessarily reflect trying to fix technical problems. The author imagines a problem arising, and he addresses it. Additionally, it's not a complete bore to read as most of these technical books can be. It's easy on the eyes, and you'll want to try things out, even if you had no plans to do so. It also comes with a DVD where you literally sit down and watch how these techniques are applied. It couldn't be any more thorough. Highly recommended! |
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