Get your website up and running and beautify it with WordPressAbout This BookBuild a WordPress site quickly and effectivelyCreate impressive WordPress themes and plugins and get to know how it worksExpand the features of WordPress to create non-blogging websites and administer themWho This Book Is ForIf you want a website at low cost, without the need to hire a team of developers and designers, then this book is for you. It will help you take your first steps into the world of website creation.
What You Will LearnLaunch your website quickly with the help of a quick WordPress installation guideCreate content that is optimized for publishing on the WebCreate a quality website with a proper assembly of important subpagesInstall and work with plugins and widgetsInstall and create attractive themes for your websiteCreate custom menus to improve the user experience of your websiteUpload multimedia content such as images, audio, and video easily and effectivelyBuild your first plugins and widgets to add features to your websiteExpand the features of WordPress for creating non-blogging websites and administer themIn DetailWith WordPress, anyone can build an optimized website with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time.
This book will serve as a practical guide for everyone who intends to become an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. Beginning with the basic features of WordPress, the book lays a solid foundation to deal with advanced and complex features. It then moves on to helping you choose and install various themes.
Gradually, with increasing complexity, the book goes into the development of your own themes, acting as a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development.
Concluding the learning curve with miscellaneous tasks such as community blogging and administrating the established site, this book empowers you with the ability to maintain your site.
First half of the book is too easy and needs to be more concise. The second half of the book , especially the codes illustrated, is too difficult, or should I say indecipherable, for people new to PHP.