In this incredibly in-depth guide to WordPress, Matt Wolfe (of TheWPClassroom.com fame) gives an amazing amount of detail on pretty much everything you need to know to get started with WordPress. From all of the basics of getting a site online to advanced strategies of traffic generation and monetization.
Gone are the days of hiring expensive coders to fix your website or spending thousands of dollars developing membership sites or ecommerce sites. WordPress makes these things simple to do YOURSELF .
With WordPress Revealed, you will
As an added bonus, Matt interviews several experts in business and blogging on exactly how they use WordPress in their businesses. You'll learn from some of the most accomplished website owners on the internet about their strategies to monetize websites as well as their tips for getting started and the plugins that they couldn't live without. This section alone is easily worth 4 times the cost of the book.
Some of the expert interviews
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I highly recommend this book, if you are new to WordPress and trying to get a gauge on where you need to go. Off the get-go Matt tells you what is relevant to getting started, which is what I was looking for. If you are looking for an encyclopedia on WordPress (when it was founded, by who), this is not your source.
Best part of this book (Kindle purchase), is that I highlighted key points that I see myself still going back to over a month after I finish reading it, even on my phone. Matt also uses laymen's terminology in the book, which was a huge plus for me.
If you are looking to get started right away with a WordPress site and just need the "meat", this is the book for you.
Easy read if you're thinking of starting up a WordPress site, but a lot of it assumes you're using a .org (paid- for), rather than .com (free) site, so much of it is irrelevant. Also - as with pretty much any marketing/technology book, it's slightly out of date already (in 2014) having been originally published in 2012.
All in all, a nice, quick read that will get you up and running with the basics in no-time: whether you go with a paid-for site or not.
Finally a book that is written for non-computer experts. Matt Wolff explains the basics so very clearly, step-by-step and gives recommendations so that beginners could set up a website in a single day. Will recommend this book highly for my computer-illiterate friends.