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Ric Shreves (Author)
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Publication Date: December 14, 2011

Over 100 recipes to help you enhance your WordPress site!

  • Take your WordPress site to the next level with solutions to common WordPress problems that make your site better, smarter, faster, and more secure
  • Enhance your SEO and make more money online by applying simple hacks
  • Rich with screenshots and practical tasks that you will find quite useful

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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. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't?

WordPress 3 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems so that you can translate your site to one of the best. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks - from themes to widgets and from SEO to security.

With this update to the WordPress 2.7 cookbook, you will learn many WordPress 3 secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solving a particular problem.

You will learn to install and customize themes, work with plugins, customize content display, enhance interactivity with the user and build communities. Then, the book also teaches you to earn revenue through online sales and advertisements. You will also find recipes for SEO and enhancing usability, and the book finally winds up with information on the inevitable maintenance and security.

This book helps you to get solutions to common WordPress problems, to make your site better, smarter, faster, and more secure.

What you will learn from this book

  • Turn any free WordPress theme into a powerful and polished premium theme by changing colors and fonts, inserting your custom logo, and more
  • Learn how plugins and widgets work, and how you can create your own
  • Integrate popular services into your site including Twitter, facebook, and FeedBurner
  • Learn proven techniques to attract more readers and comments
  • Incorporate advertisements into your RSS feed and add a shopping cart to your site
  • Tips and tricks to secure your site and optimize it for SEO

Approach

This is a Packt Cookbook, which means it contains step-by-step instructions to achieve a particular goal or solve a particular problem. There are plenty of screenshots and explained practical tasks to make comprehension quick and easy.

Who this book is written for

This book is not specifically for developers or programmers; rather it can be used by anyone who wants to get more out of their WordPress site by following step-by-step instructions. A basic knowledge of PHP/XHTML/CSS/WordPress is desirable but not necessary.

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About the Author

Ric Shreves

Ric Shreves is a web application development consultant and tech author. Based in Bali, Ric is a partner at water&stone, a digital agency specializing in open source CMS web projects. Ric has been building CMS websites for over 10 years, and during that time has been involved in projects for a number of global brands, including BASF, BearingPoint, Colgate-Palmolive, Tesco Lotus, FPDSavills CBRichard Ellis, Mercy Corps and many others. Ric has published a number of books on open source in general and on open source content management systems in particular. The WordPress 3 Cookbook is his fourth book for Packt.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 14, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849514607
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849514606
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #877,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ric Shreves is a partner at water&stone, an interactive agency specializing in open source technologies. He's worked with content management technologies for more than 10 years and previously served as the Chairmen of the non-profit Mambo Foundation. Ric's written several books on technology and worked as a tech journalist and columnist for a number of publications, including ComputerWorld. He lives in Bali, Indonesia.

You can visit his personal site at http://RicShreves.net and his company site at http://www.waterandstone.com

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Even if I think of myself as an experienced WordPress developer, I've found many hints on new plugins to check out and some good advices on website development. This sounds great in the messed up sea of WordPress resources.

That said, the book is mainly meant for beginner to intermediate WordPress developers, so expect recipes for the most basic installation and customization tasks as well as insights on SEO optimization and advertising (expecially useful for Marketers and SEO specialists).

Beside that, the book covers most of the scenarios where WordPress get used. For example, I've really enjoyed the chapter about BuddyPress and social community building, and there're many hints on how to enhance the basic functionalities of pages and posts.

Still speaking as an experienced developer I'm disappointed by the choice of the author to suggest plugins even for those little customizations which involve little coding, but I get the author's intention to suit the content for those approaching WordPress for the first time and i think this cookbook may find a prime spot on their desks.
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I really enjoyed reading and implementing several of the recipes on my own WordPress websites and I really suggest you take a look at the WordPress 3 Cookbook as it has some nice pearls in it...
I used to build WordPress as a side business and the "recipes" from this book would have saved me many hours of learning.
However you do need to be aware that you should have a code editor and FTP program. I recommend PSpad and FileZilla. Luckely you get access to the code used in this book via the Packt website.

This WordPress Cookbook takes a very practicle approach on the tasks you need to work through your WordPress website setup.
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After the setup of WordPress, users usually want to get the best from it and this book can help them.
As the book is a "recipes" collection, probably it's not a book to read from beginning to the end, but the Table of Contents will guide the reader to the right tips when it is needed. The first 5 chapters are for more general web sites, with tips for everyone, while the last four chapters are dedicated to more professional web sites.
Every recipe is explained in a schematic way, to be clear for everyone, experienced or beginner user of WP. Sometimes this can be boring (basic step are repeated in every recipe) but that help people to understand what to do.
I (a beginner WP user) appreciated a lot second and fourth chapters, how to install and customize themes and content display, something that it's useful very often: when I have a doubt I got the book and in a few minutes it resolve the trouble, as a good reference should do.
Also chapter five is very useful to spread your pages into social network and so on.
The plugins chapter is good, but it's impossible to speak of every plugins available, and perhaps there are some good alternative to those explained by the authors.
Last chapter, "Managing Maintenance and Improving Security", instead, it's a little bit short, in my opinion. Security it's a big problem on the Web.
To conclude, this is a good book that can be used as a reference but also to discover what WP can do. Also experts of WP can find some useful tips, but beginners will appreciate it more.
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