WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 2 Edition

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 2 Edition



eBook Details:

Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: Wrox; 2nd edition (August 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118066901
ISBN-13: 978-1118066904

eBook Description:

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition

As an open source content management system, WordPress allows users to easily build feature-rich web sites with no programming experience.

This unique book-and-video package is a friendly, self-paced beginners guide to the latest release of WordPress. Lessons are focused on

practical, everyday tasks that users will need to create and maintain their sites: entering new content, creating new pages, managing menus,

making content search-engine friendly. Plus you’ll find lots of tips based on years of experience teaching people to use WordPress.

The eagerly anticipated second edition, completely updated for WordPress 3.1

You’ll also learn how to extend the functionality of WordPress by using the thousands of plugins available. Connecting to social media,

creating membership and e-commerce sites, setting up events calendars, making your site mobile-friendly these are just some of the plugins

you’ll be introduced to. Each lesson in the book is supplemented by an instructional video on the accompanying DVD, intended to enhance your

learning experience. Plus, a trouble-shooting appendix addresses various issues to help you solve any challenges you may face.

If learning the new WordPress is a pressing issue for you, then this book-and-video package is exactly what you need.

Packs double the punch with a book-and-video combination that’ll quickly get you up and running with the latest version of WordPress
Walks you through nearly 40 lessons covering all aspects of WordPress, each with supplementary videos on the accompanying DVD
Zeroes in on the key functions of the software-the ones you’ll be using the most-and explains them in clear, user-friendly language

If learning the new WordPress is a pressing issue for you, then this book-and-video package is exactly what you need.

The eagerly anticipated second edition, completely updated for WordPress 3.1

As an open source content management system, WordPress allows users to easily build feature-rich web sites with no programming experience.

This unique book-and-video package is a friendly, self-paced beginners guide to the latest release of WordPress. Lessons are focused on

practical, everyday tasks that users will need to create and maintain their sites: entering new content, creating new pages, managing menus,

making content search-engine friendly. Plus you’ll find lots of tips based on years of experience teaching people to use WordPress.

You’ll also learn how to extend the functionality of WordPress by using the thousands of plugins available. Connecting to social media,

creating membership and e-commerce sites, setting up events calendars, making your site mobile-friendly these are just some of the plugins

you’ll be introduced to. Each lesson in the book is supplemented by an instructional video intended to enhance your learning experience.

Plus, a trouble-shooting appendix addresses various issues to help you solve any challenges you may face.

From the Back Cover

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition: Learn to build, update, maintain, and expand a WordPress website

WordPress is an increasingly popular open-source content management system that exists in either a self-hosted or hosted version and allows

you to build and maintain a feature-rich website. This unique book-and-video package serves as a friendly, self-paced learning experience on

the capabilities and newest features of the self-hosted version of WordPress (though much of it also applies to the hosted version). Veteran

author George Plumley teaches you how to customize and extend WordPress in a number of ways in order to make it do exactly what you need.

The valuable lessons featured in the book focus on everyday tasks and are supplemented on the instructional video to enhance your learning

experience.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, Second Edition:

Demonstrates how to enter new content, create new pages, and make content search-engine friendly
Details techniques for breaking up large amounts of text, writing a post, and creating a sub page
Explores plugins that help you connect your site to social media, make your site mobile friendly, and more
Addresses creating and managing menus and displaying links
Explains how to find files in the media library
Walks you through running multiple websites from a single installation

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for

programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

You’ll learn to:

Plan what you need to do before starting your site
Install WordPress
Enter your content and publish it
Upload images, video, documents, and more
Navigate through various types of content
Deal with links, comments, RSS feeds, social networks, and multiple users
Work with themes
Optimize your site
Make sure your software is up to date
Add functionality with plugins

About the Author

George Plumley is a web developer and designer who has been helping small business clients build and update their websites for more than 15

years. His signature consulting tools are his training videos, including more than 100 on WordPress.