WordPress for Web Developers: An Introduction for Web Professionals

by Stephanie Leary

WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most of WordPress. You'll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.  


Then you'll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins.


WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of WordPress’s built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You'll learn



 

574 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 26, 2013

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a developer by profession, of software and the occasional website. However, WordPress itself was new for me, and this book was exactly the intro I was looking for, to wrap my head around the structure of files in the install, where to go to edit different functionality and visual aspects, etc. I felt this book covered the right range of topics with the right depth, without spending time on the basics that I already know or diving so far deep that I lost the big picture perspective. Post-read, I felt prepared to dig in and tackle the tasks I needed to complete, and further explore the places I wanted to learn more about. If you are new to code development or web development, this book is NOT going to break things down to a level you will find value from. But as the title clearly alludes to, if you are a web coder who is just new to WordPress - this book is a great introduction to WP for you!

[CT Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too out of date to be useful.

[Avaneesh Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book on wordpress development. Highly recommended