Wordpress Explained: Your Step-By-Step Guide

by Stephen Burge

Today, millions of websites rely on WordPress - from personal sites to the very largest organizations. Now, with WordPress Explained, you can build and run a great WordPress website, blog, or content management system -- even if you're an absolute beginner. Top WordPress trainer Stephen Burge has taught thousands of WordPress and web nobody knows more about guiding you up the WordPress learning curve. You'll master WordPress hands-on, through a complete case study, crystal-clear screenshots, simple explanations, and on-target analogies, all extensively tested with real WordPress beginners. Burge walks you through installing WordPress, mastering the Dashboard, creating your site, adding content, controlling users, enforcing security, building out links, managing comments and discussion forums, posting via email, testing performance, adding powerful additional site features, optimizing your site for search engines -- even selling products through your site. Throughout, he focuses on what you really need to know, and skips the arcane WordPress tasks and features that would only get in your way. WordPress Explained is visual, intuitive, packed with hands-on practice exercises, and backed with online videos to help you learn even more, even faster. If you're busy and non-technical... if you want to learn WordPress and have fun doing it... if you like direct hands-on learning more than abstract theory... this is the WordPress guide you've been searching for!

380 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2015

About the author

Steve Burge is from Portsmouth in southern England and now lives in Atlanta in the US.

Between leaving England and arriving in the US, there were a few stops in between, including Wales, Mexico, Japan and Australia. Steve paid for his travels by working as a teacher and a web designer.

Steve now combines teaching and web design by running OSTraining.com which teaches people how to build websites. OSTraining clients include Apple, Pfizer and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Education and Commerce.

Steve has published two books: Joomla Explained and Drupal 7 Explained. More are coming including Joomla 3 Explained, Drupal 8 Explained and WordPress Explained.