Teach Yourself Visually WordPress [Paperback]

Janet Majure (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 22, 2010 | ISBN-10: 047057092X | ISBN-13: 978-0470570920 | Edition: 1

Get your blog up and running with WordPress

Are you itching to share your thoughts with the world through blogging but aren't sure how? Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress introduces you to one of the most popular, easy-to-use blogging platforms: WordPress. This book's clear directions and visual approach helps you to quickly get started in WordPress and then take full advantage of all its features. Janet Majure, an experienced and popular WordPress user, demonstrates key points with examples from her blogs.

• Provides visual step-by-step instructions for creating and setting up a WordPress site
• Explains how to create engaging written and visual content
• Shares advice on customizing sites through use of plug-ins and themes and custom site editing
• Details more advanced procedures for self-hosted bloggers, including buying a domain, getting a Web host, and installing WordPress

The blogosphere beckons! Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress Brimming with clear instructions and exciting ideas for building a successful blog on WordPress.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 130 WordPress tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on WordPress in no time.

You'll learn to:

• Research blog names and topics

• Customize your blog's Dashboard

• Create posts with text and media

• Extend your options with widgets

• Develop a comment policy

• Troubleshoot and fix your blog

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task

• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (March 22, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047057092X
• ISBN-13: 978-0470570920
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable and empowering September 8, 2010

By HT

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This book was a valuable companion to me as I wandered into the WordPress world with no experience at all. Like many people, I find it easier to work through a new program on-screen and not by reading about it. However, this book provided "screen shots" and entertaining graphics that led me through every challenge in setting up a WordPress blog. It gives detailed information in an easy to understand and to implement form. It made learning WordPress a fun and easy process.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the Basics January 12, 2011

By Labarum VINE™ VOICE

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"Teach Yourself WordPress Visually" is a book that is a good beginning point for someone who wants to start blogging but has little or no web experience. It walks you through the ins and outs of a basic Wordpress setup along with some screen captures to illustrate the points. This is purely an elementary level book and would be of little use to someone with more experience. Those expecting more will undoubtedly be unimpressed and/or disappointed.

As for Wordpress itself, I have found it an excellent choice for blogging. The emphasis here is more on that available at Wordpress.com but users with specific needs may wish to consider getting space from a webhost where you would have much more control. This is dealt with only passingly in the book albeit this is understandable given the overall purpose.

For those novices looking for a start with Wordpress, this is a very good choice. For more advanced users, you would probably be able to figure out everything in this book on your own and need a more advanced survey of the platform's capabilities.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully illustrated, disappointingly simple December 6, 2010

By Mrs. Wilson

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I use WordPress on a domain that I purchased, and I've been writing and using it consistently for about nine months. Unfortunately, most of the advice/instructions in the book are things I figured out on my own, some easily, and some not so much. If you're getting ready to set up a blog and haven't started yet, I'd say this book is probably worth the time and money. If your blog is already up and running, though, most of this will probably not be new to you.