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Used by millions, WordPress is the world's #1 blogging tool for a reason it gives you the tools you need to customize your blog and make it truly one of a kind! Whether you're creating a new blog or you just want to get the most out of your current one, WordPress For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is the last word on WordPress.

Blogging basics choose a platform, create an account, select a theme, configure your settings, publish your thoughts, interact with your followers, slam the door on spam, and archive your posts
- Right here, write now write, revise, and publish posts, and learn about links, tags, and creating categories
  - Make the most of your posts with media edit and insert photos and quickly add and organize audio and video
    Get interactive easily insert polls and let readers rate your posts
    Widgets & more tap into text, RSS, and social media widgets, and get plugged in to plugins
    Now you're stylin' customize one of the many WordPress themes with new headers, backgrounds, fonts, and styles
    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org let WordPress host your blog for free or link WordPress with your domain
    Open the book and find:
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    The anatomy of a template tag
    Ways to enhance your blog with themes, polls, ratings, and widgets
    How to manage multiple blogs and users
    Tips for tackling spam with Akismet
    Advice on optimizing for search engines
    How to use WordPress as a content management system
    Ways to style with CSS
    Learn to:
    Create and maintain a WordPress blog
    Use the new features and upgrades in WordPress
    Customize your blog with themes and plugins
    Apply tags and CSS to create a unique presentation

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Lisa Sabin-Wilson is founder of E. Webscapes Design Studio. Working with WordPress since 2002, she has designed over 1,000 personal and professional blogs and Web sites. Lisa is a frequent panel member and guest speaker at blogging and social media conferences, including SXSW and WordCamp.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 3rd edition (January 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 394 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470592745
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470592748
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 1 x 9.75 inches

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Customers find the book excellent and a reference source. They say it does a good job of explaining the WordPress environment, with great documentation and clear, intelligible directions. Readers also mention the book is great for beginners and the gold standard for learning, managing, and using WordPress.

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Jerry Saperstein

Still the very best for learning and using WordPress

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2010

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This is Lisa Sabin-Wilson's 3rd Edition of her bedrock "WordPress For Dummies". I own all three editions and each is thicker and filled with more knowledge than the prior edition. If anyone asks me how to learn, manage and use WordPress, this is what I recommend.

It is truly A through Z coverage. Sabin-Wilson is, in my opinion, one of the best technical writers around. Her language is clear, uncluttered and free of artifice.

Logically enough, she begins at the very beginning explaining what WordPress can do for you. To her credit, she doesn't hold it out as a panacea for all that ails you. She doesn't promise you that you'll earn millions or will win public office. Sabin-Wilson simply tells you how to set up your blog and then moves progressively into the minutiae of creating and managing a WordPress blog. (And yes, operating a blog is like most other things in the world - a series of small details that you must repeatedly (i.e., daily or thereabouts) attend to. In fact, one of the chapters is appropriately entitled "Establishing Your Blog Routine".

"Wordpress For Dummies" is thorough. The WordPress Dashboard is explained as is the use and, perhaps more importantly, the customization of themes. (With WordPress, your blog or website can look however you like it, but getting it right is not necessarily simple.)

Another important Sabin-Wilson covers in some detail is using WordPress as a Content Management System. Although she treats it in some detail, I personally wish that she would write a book on this subject alone.

In all, none of the other WordPress books I've read - and there are quite a few of them - measure up to the standard that Linda Sabin-Wilson has set in all three editions of "WordPress For Dummies". Each edition has been extensively revised to stay as current as possible with WordPress releases.

A total delight to read and use, it is, in my opinion, the gold standard for learning, managing and using WordPress.

Jerry

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Great Introduction To WordPress - For Anyone

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2010

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I was in a bit of a spot when I found WordPress for Dummies. In a web development class at our Tech College, we were tasked with building a WordPress site. This was a college course, and we were doing work for a real client.

No one on the team had any WordPress experience except me, and I was only a user with a WordPress blog. We accepted the challenge, and during the process I read portions or all of five books on WordPress looking for information on using WordPress as a Content Management System.

Ms Sabin-Wilson's book was the best of the lot, being at that time the only book on the market addressing the new features in WordPress Version 3.0. I used her code to structure new templates for a couple of the static pages. The book is a good introduction to neophytes and experienced web developers.

A couple of key features were left out of the book, possibly because they may not have been finalized in her pre-publication information. These were Child Themes and the new Multiuser feature.

Fortunately, I stumbled across the new Child Theme feature in 3.0 on the WordPress.org site. This feature was key to completing the web site, and doing it in a professional way without hacking source files.

The new Multiuser feature is not covered in Dummies, although I think Ms Sabin-Wilson did briefly discuss that there would likely be changes in this feature. She did discuss Multiuser in the context of the Multiuser being a separate package prior to WP Version 3.0. Version 3.0 handles Multiuser beautifully, and you can launch as many blogs with different themes as you wish from one WordPress installation, at the same basic URL, of course. This is perfect for colleges and similar groups.

Without WordPress For Dummies, Third Edition, our web development team would not have been able to complete our assignment as quickly, nor as nicely as we did. We all got A's, of course.

I recommend this book without any hesitation, and have done so with many others in our local WordPress users' group.

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David Wilkin

Too much wasted space on lists that you can not use because Author does not give you enough about it

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2011

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Why could this book not have been more helpful then it turned out to be...

The author had moments when it should have been. The entire point of this book is to make our use of WordPress.Org something that if we don't master after reading the book and can make a website as well as the authors, at least start the process of making our own websites. A dummies book for just Wordpress.com and blogging would take all of 50 pages and Dummies can't charge you $25 for that.

What goes wrong, oh so much. One is that there is not enough dummy humor. Always useful to break up the monotony of computer learning. But that is a minor point. The major problem of Sabin-Wilson is that she thinks to start telling the readers how to master their use of the software. A good thing, except that she fails miserably at telling us how to use the items.

She will have endless tables throughout the book that will tell us the name of a parameter, the information the programming tag. Such as charset, Character settings set in Settings/General, <?php bloginfo ('charset'); ?> and then does not tell us how to use that, or any of the other long lists and wasted pages of text she devotes to such lists. Even the programming code she took us through in her putting a theme together does not work, and has inconsistencies from her step by step instruction to the code she copied and pasted at the end of it.

Those are the features that should have made this book a powerful tool. Instead it becomes fluff letting you know that Wordpress is powerful but you need to spend money again to find a teacher who actually covers the material in how you can use it. Not who give you lists of the nouns and verbs you can use, but without the rules of what a noun or a verb is in the context of comparing grammar to Wordpress programming.

I have been programming in a lot of languages long enough to know that I can push it and get something out of this book. I can use the list of tens, but this book is not worth $25. If it is worth $10, that is a stretch.

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patricia kean

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2015

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too detailed and too much to read - try a bit and it may get you in trouble

Janet from Croxley Green

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2011

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I normally find Dummies books really helpful but I was disappointed with this one. I found it went into excruciating detail about things that are obvious, eg "Click the Save Changes button .... If you don't click Save Changes, your changes aren't saved." Doh, really?! But then it glossed over complex things so that I was none the wiser. I'm now going to try the tutorials on[] instead.

Mark Barnard

Infuriating... just doesn't deliver on its promises

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2011

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Suffering from the same over-optimistic, saccharine tone adopted by most "Dummies" guides, this book just can't make up its mind what it wants to be. It covers relatively straightforward topics in too much detail then glosses over the meaty stuff. The layout of the book doesn't lend itself to large amounts of code and tables, so it becomes frustrating to follow instructions that spill over several pages.

I've found the online tutorials provided by ThemeShaper more helpful. There's also a useful introduction to WordPress by Brian Wood on Adobe's Dreamweaver Developer Centre (you don't need Dreamweaver to read the tutorial).

With better editing and a more helpful balance of content, this could have been a halfway useful book. But if you want to delve into the complexities of WordPress (and I'm beginning to ask myself why I ever did), there's got to be a better all-in-one reference work. I've just yet to find it.

Peter

Might be better now.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2014

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Didn't really cover the stuff I wanted at the time.
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