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WordPress for Journalists and Bloggers
WordPress For Journalists and Bloggers
The guide to setting up a blog, news or magazine-style website quickly and simply
This book is written by a journalist who loves building websites but who knows there are many journalists, writers and bloggers who have better things to do with their time, such as researching and writing stories.
It is for anyone who wants to set up their own website without having any technical knowledge and without distractions.
The book sets out in plain English how to set up and run your own website quickly and easily at minimal cost. This isn’t a massive techy tome covering WordPress in intricate detail, it is a concise book which gives you a simple way to build your own website without any technical knowledge.
There is a great opportunity to set up your own website for your own purposes, whether that is to offer a news service or showcase your abilities. You might be active in social media but to have your own website is an impressive addition to your credentials and to have WordPress experience is a sought-after transferable skill.
As well as being able to run your own website, you will also gain insight into using a Content Management System, which will give you valuable experience if you work or want to work for one of the many news organisations which use a CMS to manage their websites.
You are taken through all the basics from selecting and registering a domain name to setting up and customising your website. There are screenshots to illustrate points but everything is clearly set out in the text so you should be able to follow all the steps easily even if you are reading on a smartphone.
The first half of this book will show you how to set up a website using the default WordPress TwentyTwelve theme, which is a free theme with every WordPress installation. The work you do in this section will be carried over into the second half when the book looks at more themes. One of the great things about WordPress is that you can change the look of your website whenever you like by simply changing the theme but your original content will remain.
The book is written in a narrative way rather than a modular form, so you can follow one process to build your website rather than having to dip into several modules.
Ebooks can be difficult to navigate but this one has been structured simply with descriptive headers to build a comprehensive table of contents which will help you find your way around if you are looking for a particular topic.
The second half of the book looks at more themes. All these themes will add more functions and flexibility to your website and you will start to gain a better understanding of just how powerful WordPress can be.
WordPress itself just continues to grow. It is a free, open source system that provides a solid framework for building websites but the basic simplicity of WordPress belies its potential. May 2013 is the tenth birthday of WordPress and nowadays it is used by around one-fifth of all new websites and on about 17% of the world’s top one million websites. Many of the world’s top news websites use WordPress, so you’re going to be in great company.
The guide to setting up a blog, news or magazine-style website quickly and simply
This book is written by a journalist who loves building websites but who knows there are many journalists, writers and bloggers who have better things to do with their time, such as researching and writing stories.
It is for anyone who wants to set up their own website without having any technical knowledge and without distractions.
The book sets out in plain English how to set up and run your own website quickly and easily at minimal cost. This isn’t a massive techy tome covering WordPress in intricate detail, it is a concise book which gives you a simple way to build your own website without any technical knowledge.
There is a great opportunity to set up your own website for your own purposes, whether that is to offer a news service or showcase your abilities. You might be active in social media but to have your own website is an impressive addition to your credentials and to have WordPress experience is a sought-after transferable skill.
As well as being able to run your own website, you will also gain insight into using a Content Management System, which will give you valuable experience if you work or want to work for one of the many news organisations which use a CMS to manage their websites.
You are taken through all the basics from selecting and registering a domain name to setting up and customising your website. There are screenshots to illustrate points but everything is clearly set out in the text so you should be able to follow all the steps easily even if you are reading on a smartphone.
The first half of this book will show you how to set up a website using the default WordPress TwentyTwelve theme, which is a free theme with every WordPress installation. The work you do in this section will be carried over into the second half when the book looks at more themes. One of the great things about WordPress is that you can change the look of your website whenever you like by simply changing the theme but your original content will remain.
The book is written in a narrative way rather than a modular form, so you can follow one process to build your website rather than having to dip into several modules.
Ebooks can be difficult to navigate but this one has been structured simply with descriptive headers to build a comprehensive table of contents which will help you find your way around if you are looking for a particular topic.
The second half of the book looks at more themes. All these themes will add more functions and flexibility to your website and you will start to gain a better understanding of just how powerful WordPress can be.
WordPress itself just continues to grow. It is a free, open source system that provides a solid framework for building websites but the basic simplicity of WordPress belies its potential. May 2013 is the tenth birthday of WordPress and nowadays it is used by around one-fifth of all new websites and on about 17% of the world’s top one million websites. Many of the world’s top news websites use WordPress, so you’re going to be in great company.
161 pages, Unknown Binding
First published March 4, 2013
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