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Author: Janet Majure
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Get your blog up and running with the latest version of WordPressWordPress is one of the most popular, easy-to-use blogging platforms and allows you to create a dynamic and engaging blog, even if you have no programming skills or experience. Ideal for the visual learner, Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, Second Edition introduces you to the exciting possibilities of the newest version of WordPress and helps you get started, step by step, with creating and setting up a WordPress site. Author and experienced WordPress user Janet Majure shares advice, insight, and best practices for taking full advantage of all that WordPress has to offer.
- Presents completely updated coverage of new mobile blogging solutions
- Shares advice on customizing sites through use of plug-ins and themes and custom site editing
- Details more advanced procedures for self-hosted bloggers, including buying a domain, getting a web host, and installing WordPress
- Demonstrates key points with examples from the author's own WordPress blogs
Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress, Second Edition clears the air around any blog fog you may find yourself in and gets you started with creating your own dynamic WordPress blog today!
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- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: Visual; 2 edition (March 9, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007KGE6FW
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One of my graphic designer friends raved about the first edition of this book, and I can see why. "Visual" is not an understatement with this series: it includes almost more images than text, and in bright full color, too. The illustrations and well-laid-out text boxes are certainly one of the book's great strengths. Though a few of the screenshots are too small to be read at the size they appear in print, most of the illustrations aid considerably in following the steps in each chapter. The "Tips" boxes that appear at the foot of many pages to answer frequently asked questions are also very helpful.
Chapter 1, "Introducing WordPress," helps you decide between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (commonly referred to as WordPress.org), explains some core WordPress terms like pages, posts, permalinks, and the dashboard, and provides tips on choosing strong passwords, specific blog topics, and good site names. Many of these are not WordPress-specific tips, but they are important considerations for people who want to build good blogs or websites.
Chapter 2 focuses on setting up a WordPress.com blog. If you already know you want to use self-hosted WordPress, you can skip this. If you're looking for a book that can help you with your WordPress.com site, however, you'll be glad to know that this one addresses WordPress.com in all but a few chapters.
Chapter 3 covers both manual and "one-click" (control-panel based) installation of WordPress on your web server, using Bluehost and Simple Scripts for its screenshots. (The process is essentially the same for other hosts using Fantastico or Softaculous.) There's a troubleshooting section for common installation problems.
I know this is supposed to be a beginner's guide. When I bought it, I considered myself a Wordpress beginner. But this book has nothing in it that you can't figure out for yourself. You can "teach yourself visually" by looking at the Wordpress dashboard. It's all in front of you. Everything in this book is already explained there, except for the part about setting up a mySQL database. This doesn't make much sense. If you need the level of hand-holding provided in this book, choose a provider that offers automatic Wordpress installation. If you want to deal with FileZilla, mySQL, or PHP, this isn't the book for you anyway. What I was looking for was something in between. I could figure out how to set up the website for myself. What I needed was a guide to customizing and making the page behave the way I wanted it to. This book showed trivial things like how to create a post, how to format a post, how to move widgets around. I already knew all that. It seems if you can't figure out the very basics, you should blog on BlogSpot instead of WordPress. I probably should have looked for something advanced, but I was brand new to Wordpress and it was driving me crazy. Every time I searched the Wordpress forums, they talked about tweaking the php source code and my eyes would glass over. I ended up learning PHP anyway, because it was easier than trying to find a plugin for everything I wanted to do. Nothing I learned about Wordpress functionality came from this book. I feel like I wasted an unreasonable amount of money for something that had no value to me.
On the positive side, I have to say that Teach Yourself Visually is very nicely presented. It's well organized and visually inviting. As a technical writer, I can tell that a lot of skill went into the layout to ensure a user-friendly result.