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Matt Beck (Author), Jessica Neuman Beck (Author)
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Publication Date: October 21, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0321792661 | ISBN-13: 978-0321792662 | Edition: 2
WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2E uses a visual approach to teach the essential elements of WordPress, one of the world's most popular publishing platforms. This book gives readers the tools they need to create beautiful, functional WordPress-powered sites with minimal hassle. Using plenty of screenshots and a clear, organized format, authors Jessica Neuman Beck and Matt Beck walk new users through the installation and setup process while providing valuable tips and tricks for more experienced users. With no other resource but this guide, readers can set up a fully-functional and well-designed WordPress site that takes advantage of all the features WordPress has to offer.

This new, fully updated version covers all the key new features of WordPress 3, including an improved welcome screen with enhanced security and usability; internal linking to articles on one's own blog; support for individual author templates; improved menu interface allowing for changes to be made from inside the WordPress dashboard; and the new, easily customizable Default Theme, Twenty Eleven, with support for child themes and header and background adjustments. It also covers more advanced features, such as improved content management with Custom Post types, which allow WordPress theme developers to create custom content types outside of pages and posts; and integration of the WordPress Multi-User into the WordPress core so that users can create and manage hundreds of blogs.

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About the Author

Jessica Neuman Beck is a writer, editor, and Web designer. She is the managing partner at CouldBe Studios, a small-business-focused Web design agency located in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in Shopify and WordPress sites.

Matt Beck is Jessica's business partner at CouldBe Studios, a designer, and a PHP/MySQL developer. He has a solid background in IT and MIS management, including lots of experience with WordPress design and customization.

Find out more about Matt and Jessica at: www.couldbestudios.com

Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (October 21, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321792661
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321792662
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I was looking for a very quick introduction to WordPress, and I was fortunate to chance upon this book.

The authors have done a stellar job in creating an extremely approachable guide to WordPress. This is one of those books with a very high Return On Investment for your time spent reading it. Plan on spending about a weekend, and make sure that you have a hosting service handy (ideally with cPanel and Fantastico) to try out the examples.

The book is targeted at WordPress 2.7 - and does a very decent job of describing all that you need to know about installing, configuring, and using WordPress. If you want to know how to manage your posts, pages, tags, categories, links, media, widgets, plugins, RSS feeds, and themes - this book covers it all.

The only downside that I might point out is that the book devotes a lot of space to the creation of custom themes - which could be considered a topic that is simply too complex for a visual style workbook. There's a lot of ground to cover here in addition to just WordPress ... PHP, HTML, CSS ... and this is where the book tends to lose some of its simplicity and purity of focus. (Note that if you're somewhat familiar with these technologies, you should have no problem following along.)

Notwithstanding that caveat, if you want to get a quick grasp of the lay of the land, this book works out just great. It was a highly enjoyable read for me - hence my 5-star rating.

Happy Blogging!
~Damodar
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WordPress Visual Quickstart is a thorough, step-by-step guide to installing, configuring and managing your own WordPress site. It will walk you through everything you can do with the basic WordPress configuration, as well as talk about some of the extensibility of the application. As a reference book for the beginner, you can hardly go wrong with it.

One thing to be aware of is that the book really is more functional than conceptual. The book does not attempt to guide you through the decision-making process when setting up your site, and only rarely makes recommendations for configuration choices...nor does it have a lot of sidebars explaining concepts like linkbacks and their importance, or talk in depth about best practices and the most effective ways to structure/organize your site (using pages vs. categories vs. tags etc.) I would have liked to see a little more discussion on some of these concepts -- but then, it does follow the most common pattern of VQSG's by Peachpit.

If you're new to Wordpress and to blogs, I'd suggest purchasing this book in combination with a more conceptual overview of the available Wordpress functionality.
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Easy, simple instructions January 22, 2010
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Having previous experience with WordPress but still struggling with some basic concepts, I found the book to be a good way to look over the parts of WordPress I had missed or needed work on. Contains simple step-by-step instructions, good for those less inclined towards complex instruction such as myself. I was rarely in the dark when going through the steps.

Worth your time.
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Publisher pedigree promised much, but this book delivers little.
I wanted to really like this book. I grabbed this book on impulse from the library, as I've had a great experience with Visual Quickstart books in the past. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Molly Rose
Some books are to be tasted: WorkPress overview by Jessica and Matt...
One of my father's favorite quotations was "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Joel Solkoff
Update for WordPress 3*?
I really liked the organization and ease of use of this book and keep looking for a revision for WordPress 3*. I hope that the authors will create one.
Published 7 months ago by Pixel
Great for beginners!
I ordered this book a little over a week ago because I was curious about Wordpress. Before this book I had no prior knowledge of Wordpress. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Cody
wordpress:visual quickstart guide
The service was good. i received the book, which was packed carefully, in a new condition. thanks to the seller!
Published 23 months ago by ann
Quickstart? Hardly. Quick yes, but hardly starts at the beginning
Wordpress, as the saying guys "takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master." I had hoped the Visual Quickstart Guide would maybe help me move to at least the apprentice... Read more
Published 24 months ago by D. Greenbaum
Excellent guide for the beginner to intermediate user
What the Authors Jessica Neuman Beck and Matt Beck have assembled here is a complete guide to installing and creating your WordPress blog. Read more
Published 24 months ago by M. A. Filippelli
Not what I expected
This book is written for a beginner! I was looking for more details on creating and modifying my own themes. Read more
Published on March 2, 2010 by Dani Brown
Great Book
This is a great book for those of us that are "online reader" challenged, I like to make lots of notes on the pages and scribble all over with arrows and underlining! Read more
Published on February 2, 2010 by Daniel L. Wiese
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