WordPress For Beginners: Build, Optimize And Design A WordPress Website Or Blog From Scratch, In 3 Easy Steps! (Stoked About WordPress Series)
‘WordPress For Beginners’ is a newbie guide that lays out in complete detail the exact steps needed to build a full-fledged website (using wordpress.org). Start building a website from scratch and then add layer upon layer of WordPress goodness!
***Take a look inside the book (Chapter 2) to get an idea about the kind of website we will be creating!***
(Please note the book was previously titled Stoked About WordPress)
We won’t just talk theory but also use 50+ screensh
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Informative and easy to follow guide,
Overall, I think the author has succeeded achieving both goals. The instructions are detailed, simple to understand, and written in a friendly conversation tone. She explains terminology, provides examples, and even provides a web site where she is willing to answer questions that the book has not answered.
The book covers a lot of topics from basic set up to optimization of performance. You will not need to read the book cover to cover to get started. You can gradually improve your site by learning additional chapters. I really liked the cheat sheet at the end of the book “A website in 10 minutes” – it is always rewarding to get something working fast and then come back and tune various things as you learn more and more.
If there was one thing that I would have liked to see in the book which is not there is the comparison of WordPress to Blogger pointing how they are different and why someone might choose one over the other.
Overall, if you want to become a WordPress expert this is a great place to start.
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|Great read with some excellent in depth info,
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|For those new to building a website,
If you have never purchased a domain name this will tell you all about how to do that.
If you have never purchased hosting for a website before, this explains all about it and makes a couple of recommendations for a hosting service.
This explains the C-panel some hosting services use, and explains Fantastico, a feature of the C-panel that allows you to install things automatically on your site with the press of a button, WordPress being one of them.
This explains what a WordPress Theme is, and where to get them.
This explains what plug-ins are and how to use them.
I didn’t know this book was so basic so for me, half an hour with it was all I needed. This not only tells you how to use Fantastico to install wordpress, it also tells you how to manually install it for better site security.
This is for beginners to making any type of website, and for those this is a wonderful book. It is super easy to read and gives step by step instructions on everything you need to know and do to get your WordPress site on the internet. It will walk you through making your first site in an hour or two at the most. Of course this is a basic no frills site, but that’s what a first site will be for anyone.
I was hoping for some more advanced instructions than this and that is no fault of this book. I simply didn’t realize it was so basic. I will certainly put a few things in this book to use. For anyone who is brand new to making their first website, this is the book to get. Nothing could make the process any easier than this does.
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