Whether you’re promoting your business or writing about your travel adventures, Head First WordPress will teach you not only how to make your blog look unique and attention-grabbing, but also how to take advantage of WordPress platform’s more complex features to make your website work well, too.
You’ll learn how to move beyond the standard WordPress look and feel by customizing your blog with your own URL, templates, plugin functionality, and more. As you learn, you’ll be working with real WordPress files: The book’s website provides pre-fab WordPress themes to download and work with as you follow along with the text.
- Get your site up and running by setting up a MySQL database and creating configuration files
- Work with the WordPress platform to create posts and pages, learn the difference between tags and categories, edit content, moderate comments, and manage spam
- Explore how to extend WordPress with plugins and templates
- Convert custom designs (in HTML and CSS) into functional themes and use them in WordPress
We think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First WordPress uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.
About the Author
Jeff Siarto is a recent graduate of Michigan State University earning a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Digital Media Arts and Technology. His research interests included user experience design, standards-based web development, open courseware systems and open source software. He currently lives in Chicago where he works as a freelance web developer and hopes to continue work on Oryoki, his thesis and open courseware management system built in Ruby on Rails. When he isn’t glued to his MacBook you can usually find Jeff in the Kitchen making a mess of things or tinkering on his guitar in a fruitless attempt to impress his girlfriend. Jeff is also a leap-year baby, wannabe wine enthusiast and all around geek.
Book Details
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (August, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596806280
- ISBN-13: 978-0596806286
