Web Designer's Guide To Wordpress

by Jesse Friedman

Legions of web designers and developers are choosing WordPress for building sites. That's because it's powerful, reliable, flexible, scalable—and more. This book is your complete guide to mastering WordPress theme development, covering everything from installation to leveraging the community and resources to improve your WordPress skills for years to come. You'll learn how to:
With detailed explanations, real-life examples, and step-by-step tutorials, you'll find everything you need to build and deploy WordPress-powered websites with no prior server-side or WordPress development experience.

Genres: Website Design

288 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2012

Reviews

[Curtis Newbold · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was largely disappointed in this book. I used it for a course of mine on web design. The book sells itself as a beginner's book, but uses terminology and code far beyond the beginner. I regret that I chose this book based on reviews and not having read the book first (I was in a rush to order a book for a course I had not yet taught).

On the flip side, for the developer who knows PHP, HTML, and CSS, the book is far too basic. I'm really unclear who the author is trying to reach with this book. To make it worse, the interior font is a light gray color, incredibly frustrating to read.

[Thaddeus Nowak · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is somewhere between three and four stars, but closer to four, so I rated it that way.

It gives a good overview of creating your own theme. However, I would have liked to see more code in the book and for the author to have gone into more depth.

There are a lot of links in the book back to a webpage for more details and explanations. However, I was reading it when I was not on-line, so I will have to go back and review the on-line details when I have time. My personal preference would have been to include the "additional details" in the book itself.

Another area that would have been good to include is child themes. There is a mention of them, but no details. Child themes are a good place to start in learning and building a theme. This book is designed for those wanting to create something completely from scratch.

The examples and code in the book are good and it was worth the read.

[Srinivasa Rao D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Referenced site is not accessible

Images in book point to the site - http://wdgwp.com. Site is not active or redirecting to other site. Content is good.

[atom_box Evan G · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm getting a lot out of it by pairing it with an Udemy course on Wordpress. Neither alone would be powerful but together they are dynamite; they make a synergy.

The author has an authoritative background but he translates everything well for a beginner. He has been giving major conference talks for years and so that helps him boil things down into concise and clear paragraphs. The book gets into wireframes and site architecture pretty early, which is exactly what I wanted.

My version was from 2013, but by pairing it with the current Udemy course, everything really clicked. I'm using it to build my first two freelance sites ever. (Found the clients on Craigslist and my local university job board.)

[T English · Rating 3 out of 5]

Woefully outdated, the links in the book are all 404 with no forwarding.

[Jason]

Exactly what you'd expect from the title. A great introduction to Wordpress for designers. It covers all the basics and then some of theme development. You really don't even need to know php to understand it. Highly recommended for a designer wanting to jump into WordPress.

[Heshimu]

Ok

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had a decent amount of useful information. I may refer to this one again in the future.

[Dale Johnson]

A good basic technical grounding in developing WordPress themes for the WordPress community.

[Simo]

From beginner to Professional Wordpress Developer