Books

Here are all the WordPress books we know about, linked to Amazon (where we spend all our money) for your one‑click pleasure.

  • How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer

    How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer

    Collis Ta’eed & Harley Alexander

    Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.

    Rockable Press | 2009

  • WordPress MU 2.7: Beginner's Guide

    David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress

    David D. Busch & Rebekkah Hilgraves

    Perfect for professional photographers, avid amateur shutterbugs, and even non-photography bloggers who want to include photos on their blog sites, this book will help you get up and blogging quickly and easily.

    Course Technology PTR | 2009

  • WordPress MU 2.7: Beginner's Guide

    WordPress MU 2.7: Beginnerʼs Guide

    Lesley A. Harrison

    This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com—a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves.

    PACKT Publishing | 2009

  • WordPress 2.7 Complete

    WordPress 2.7 Complete

    April Hodge Silver, Hasin Hayder

    If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured blog or non-blog web site in no time, this book is for you. It will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and get you up and running with a state-of-the-art blog as quickly and painlessly as possible. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so you can build your complete web site.

    PACKT Publishing | 2009

  • WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner's Guide

    WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide

    Vladimir Prelovac

    From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials.

    PACKT Publishing | 2009

  • WordPress for Dummies

    WordPress for Dummies

    Lisa Sabin-Wilson

    Are you a wannabe blogger? A seasoned pro migrating your blog to WordPress? Looking to do more cool stuff with your existing WordPress blog? Then this fun guide is for you! WordPress for Dummies is a veritable smorgasbord of WordPress information, ideas, tools, resources, and instruction on everything you need to create and maintain your dream blog.

    For Dummies | 2009 (Second Edition)

  • Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

    Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

    Scott McNulty

    Having your own blog isn't just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to get one. but to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort.

    Peachpit Press | 2008

  • WordPress for Business Bloggers

    WordPress for Business Bloggers

    Paul Thewlis

    This book will take you beyond the basics of WordPress, helping you take full advantage of its rich and powerful features to transform your basic blog into a more advanced and professional blog as quickly and painlessly as possible.

    Packt Publishing | 2008

  • WordPress Theme Design

    WordPress Theme Design

    Tessa Blakeley Silver

    This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up your WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up your theme's template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live.

    Packt Publishing | 2008

  • WordPress 2 Visual QuickStart Guide

    WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart Guide

    Maria Langer and Miraz Jordan

    This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.

    Peachpit Press | 2006

  • WordPress Complete

    WordPress Complete

    Hasin Hayder

    A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress.

    Packt Publishing | 2006

  • Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

    Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

    Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, and Jared W. Smith

    Whether you want to build a community with a content management system, a bulletin board, or a blog, Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress will instruct you. This authoritative guide is based on open source software.

    Apress | 2005