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A complete and thorough guide to the largest self-hosted blogging tool: WordPress

Has learning WordPress become a pressing issue for you? If so, then turn to WordPress Bible, a complete resource on everything you need to know to learn WordPress from beginning to end. You'll start with the basics of WordPress, such as the principles of blogging and social media interaction. Then the pace ramps up to more intermediate-to-advanced topics including plugins, WordPress Loop, themes and templates, custom fields, caching, security, and more.

Written by a popular WordPress consultant, this comprehensive guide is timed to publish with the release of the latest version of WordPress, ensuring that you have the most up-to-date information available on the largest and most-used blogging tool in the world.

  • Serves as the definitive guide to every aspect of WordPress, the most popular self-hosted blogging tool in the world
  • Covers everything, from the basics of installation to more advanced topics such as plugins and security
  • Includes coverage of the most recent release of WordPress, keeping you up to date on all its latest features
  • Addresses themes and templates, WordPress Loop, custom fields, caching, and more
  • Author is a popular WordPress consultant

You'll be hard-pressed to find another resource as thorough and comprehensive as WordPress Bible.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0470568135
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0470568132
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Wiley
  5. Publication date
    February 8, 2010
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.4 x 1.42 x 9.3 inches
  8. Print length
    672 pages
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Install WordPress and go beyond blogging

WordPress is so flexible that developers are now tapping it to create robust applications for content, contact, and e-mail management. Whether you're a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers WordPress from the basics through advanced application development. Learn how to use custom plugins and themes, retrieve data, maintain security, use social media, and modify your blog without changing any core code. You'll even get to know the ecosystem of products that surrounds this popular, open-source tool.

  • Enhance your blog's findability in the search engines and beyond

  • Discover hooks and leverage the WordPress event-driven programming interface

  • Create WordPress widgets in only a few minutes

  • Explore alternate uses of WordPress

  • Enhance your blog with WordPress MU

  • Ensure your plugins maintain future compatibility

  • Create highly customizable and dynamic themes using template tags

  • Learn best security practices as a user and developer

Companion Web Site

Visit www.wiley.com/go/wordpressbible for all of the author's example files from the book.

Install, secure, and maintain WordPress

Extend WordPress with plugins and themes

Enhance your blog with WordPress MU

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

About the Author

Aaron Brazell is a leading WordPress and social media consultant, with clients ranging from enterprise software companies to small- and medium-sized businesses. He has worked on large-scale WordPress installations from both a technical/scaling perspective to complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the software plugin API. He maintains a large business and technology blog in the Washington D.C. area, Technosailor.com.

Mark Jaquith is one of the lead WordPress core developers and an independent Web services consultant. He has consulted for major clients through his company, Covered Web Services, and is the author of several popular WordPress plugins, including Subscribe to Comments and Page Links To.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (February 8, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470568135
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470568132
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1.42 x 9.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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3.7 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the content amazing, valuable, and relevant. They also describe the book as clear, concise, and easy to understand. However, some customers report unbelievable number of typos in the code and too much of the coding is unexplained.

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Customers find the content amazing, readable for all audiences, and a valuable addition to any serious WordPress library. They say the information and concepts remain relevant and are eclectic. Readers also mention the book helps them with their work.

"...and this content is not for the neophyte. The content is eclectic, with a lot of emphasis on building plugins...." Read more

"...All in all, a good reference, and refresher." Read more

"...wordpress 3.1 has been released, the information and concepts in this book remains relevant...." Read more

"...Also, the book is 650 pages or something, but there's not much real content in there, pages being dominated by cross-references, notes and tips...." Read more

6 customers mention "Ease of reading"6 positive0 negative

Customers find the book easy to understand and follow. They say it's clear, concise, and readable for all audiences. Readers also mention the book is well-written and easy to digest for an expert or layman alike.

"...a gentle reader or companion, even though it is written in fairly easy to understand language...." Read more

"...in such as way as not to talk down to beginners, but still make it easy to grasp...." Read more

"...Folks, it's easy to understand, even if you're not a programmer and at the same time will satisfy the most hard core programmer with tips on how..." Read more

"...for an experienced geek like myself, but the WordPress Bible is well written and easy to follow...." Read more

4 customers mention "Code errors"0 positive4 negative

Customers find the code in the book unbelievable. They say it has typos on every other line and too much of the coding is unexplained.

"...Unfortunatelty, the code samples have several serious bugs (yes, the ones you download from the net too), so I found myself spending alot of time..." Read more

"...However I had to work through an unbelievable number of typos in the code. It seems like every other line had a typo...." Read more

"...I must say, this book has caused more stress than help. The book is riddled with typos and the code examples have errors! Lots of them!..." Read more

"Fairly good book on Wordpress, but has lots of code errors!..." Read more

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Jerry Saperstein
5.0 out of 5 stars The book for somewhat advanced WordPress information
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2010
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If you are just starting out with WordPress, then the best book I've found for that is Lisa Sabin Wilson's "WordPress For Dummies" (WPD). WPD will carry you surprisingly far into the installation, use, maintenance and extension of WordPress. It is now in its second edition with a third expected soon.

For most people, WPD will suffice.

But If your needs are more demanding, then Aaron Brazell's "WordPress Bible" is a good place to go.

Brazell gets much deeper under the WordPress hood than Sabin-Wilson. - and this content is not for the neophyte.

The content is eclectic, with a lot of emphasis on building plugins. Installing WordPress is covered, but not in the same supportive way you'll find in WPD. Some chapters are head-scratchers: why are nine pages devoted to the WordPress help system ("Codex") and other support groups? Chapters like "Extending WordPress with Plugins", "Widgetizing WordPress", "Understanding the WordPress Database Class" and the doozy "Dissecting the Loop and WP_Query" give you what you need to know to write and manage plugns. Another chapter talks about using WordPress as a Content Management System, which I found helpful, and wish was three times longer.

Overall, "WordPress Bible" is a valuable addition to any serious WordPress library. My one criticism of the book is about Wiley, the publisher: they have a adopted a design that makes it look as if the type is printed in gray, which I find very difficult to read for more than a few minutes at a time. Wiley does not respond to customer comments. Because of this flaw, I will buy Wiley books only when they appear to be best in class.

Jerry
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Michael L. Olivier
4.0 out of 5 stars Another great book for Wordpress noobs
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2010
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This book is fairly comprehensive Wordpress 2.7 with a few added bits for more recent copies (not 3.0, unfortunately). It goes into a little detail about a lot and a lot of detail about a fair bit. Like all of the other tech "Bibles", it is not a gentle reader or companion, even though it is written in fairly easy to understand language. I got it as I was getting going on theme design for Wordpress and some things have come in pretty handy, but mostly, you can find all of the same information online in the Wordpress Codex. The pictures in the book are nice, but in black and white which makes it a little less attractive.

Overall, worth it for someone who is wanting to get started in the guts of Wordpress. A good addition to all of the (free) online tools, how-to tutorials, and the like.
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Andre
2.0 out of 5 stars Not impressed
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2010
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Being a seasoned php-, and web-developer in general, I picked up this book to learn more about how I can customize and extend Wordpress and use it as a cms in my projects. Sadly, I found myself skimming through page after page of useless information.

First, on the positive side, Part II learnt me alot about making plugins, widgets and the loop, and parts of Part III was good when it comes to understanding how templates are structured and working with javascript. Unfortunatelty, the code samples have several serious bugs (yes, the ones you download from the net too), so I found myself spending alot of time trying to find the bugs by looking at similar examples elsewhere.

The rest of the book seemed very light-weight to me. Some of the chapters I was looking forward to (like chapther 20 and 21), just described plugins you can use to achieve stuff. This doesn't really add any real value for me, I was expecting to learn the conceptual ideas behind tweaking wordpress into being used in different ways. Also, the book is 650 pages or something, but there's not much real content in there, pages being dominated by cross-references, notes and tips.

I'll probably keep using the book as a reference because of appendix A and B, but I regret spending so much time skimming through the book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good book but lots of typos
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2010
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As soon as I got this book I skipped straight to Chapter 6: "Widgetizing WordPress". I have to say I was pleased at how quickly I was able to create my first widget. So from that perspective this seems to be a good choice for my goal of creating my own widgets and themes. However I had to work through an unbelievable number of typos in the code. It seems like every other line had a typo. I can almost tolerate that if it's a book about a language that I already know well; I can just fix the typos as I go along. But my knowledge of PHP is pretty elementary - mostly just what you can pick up from reading WordPress templates. This book is targeted at "Beginner to Advanced" levels. A book for beginners needs to have rock-solid code samples that people can learn from instead of getting frustrated because the code they copy from the book doesn't work. So unfortunately what could have been an awesome book ends up getting the "Nice Try" award.
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Melissa A. Case
5.0 out of 5 stars Makes WordPress Easy-Peasy ... Even For A Non-Geek Like Me.
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2010
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I am by NO means a techno-geek. I do, however, run a business in which my clients often ask for advice in setting up WordPress sites for their companies. But where's a web novice to turn?

Enter Aaron Brazell.

Mr. Brazell, while exceedingly thorough in his explanations of the popular blogging platform, presents his material in such as way as not to talk down to beginners, but still make it easy to grasp. I've been reading the text for several days now, and have learned more than I could have imagined when I thought to order the it (typically, when I attempt to read a technical manual like this one, I can see the words on the page, but they register as, "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.") Not so here.

Clear. Concise. Easy-to-follow. A stellar effort by Mr. Brazell that I would *highly* recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about WordPress -- whether neophyte or expert.
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D. A. Wells
4.0 out of 5 stars Good resource.
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2010
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This is a good resource if you need to know, or look up, something in particular. It is not a step-by-step guide, so if you are new to Wordpress, you may want to get a starter book first. Most of the explanations are pretty thorough, but sometimes things are sort of skimmed over, where apparently it is assumed you already know the basics without having certain things explained. All in all, a good reference, and refresher.
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CCRacer
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent WordPress reference
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2010
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Having not used WordPress previously and not been involved with web based technologies in recent years, I found the WordPress Bible really well structured and thought out. It takes you through every stage from installing to running modified themes etc and is the ideal book or manual to have by your side. Its not too techie and is easy to understand with well written instructions and illustrations to help you achieve what you want. Well worth the money.
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McC1
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2014
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This book is highly technical and a little above my head at the moment but like all the bible books is well written and I have no doubt I will use it more as i learn more.
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S. D. Barnett-cormack
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference and introduction
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2010
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Gives an excellent all-round introduction and provides a good reference. The only thing I could wish for, personally, would be a better guide to writing skins, but I realise that, for Wordpress, this would require vastly more space.
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