WordPress 24-Hour Trainer

While WordPress is currently the world’s number one blogging software, this is not a book about
blogging. In WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, you learn how to use this open-source software to build and
maintain a website, whether it’s a blog, has a blogging section, or has nothing at all to do with blogging.
I treat WordPress as a content management system — a system you can customize in a number
of ways to make it do exactly what you need. Whether you’re building a website for yourself or for someone else, you need to be concerned about two
things: the ease of setting up the site and of maintaining it. This book will show you how WordPress
offers both.

Smashing WordPress

The whole point is really to prove that WordPress is so much more than a blog-publishing platform. You can build just about anything on it, and you should as well if you like fast deployments and great fl exibility. It is not always the perfect choice, but it should defi nitely be considered at all times. Th e ease with which you can both build and use this platform is a selling point, just as is the living community that can back you up when you run into problems, and the fact that this is open source at its finest

WordPress in Depth

In less than a decade, WordPress has become the most important toolaround for blogging, which itself is the channel for one of the greatuncensored, unedited, unrestrained outpourings of creativity in humanhistory. WordPress blogs often serve as a home for breaking news orinsightful comments that affect other media. As such, WordPress isimportant to people who don’t like blogs or who don’t even likecomputers.WordPress is a serious and tremendously flexible tool—and also a frameworkfor creating more tools. WordPress blogs include some of thebiggest websites around, as well as spur-of-the-moment creations thatattract a few posts, perhaps a few comments, and then go the way ofthe dodo.Along with the blogs themselves, one of the amazing things is thepower of blogs as a network, referring to each other, with blog entriesand comments forming a mesh—well, a web, actually—of comment,criticism, and encouragement. (Even a criticism can serve as a form ofencouragement, inspiring a blogger to answer a complaint or to post abetter entry next time.)