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| WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Book & DVD) |  | Author: George Plumley
Publisher: Wrox
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 26,041
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dvdr
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0470554584
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780470554586
ASIN: 0470554584
Publication Date: November 23, 2009
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Product Description
Don't let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson. This book is the perfect guide to - Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
- Installing WordPress
- Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
- Working with the text editor
- Styling paragraphs and creating lists
- Working with media files
- Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
- Working with image galleries
- Adding video and audio
- Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
- Making your site stand out
- Helping others connect to your site
- Becoming search engine friendly
- Optimizing your site
- Backing up your site
- Installing and activating plugins
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 Common sense teaching January 13, 2010
B. Com (Texas)
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
I was somewhat hesitant to buy a tutorial book that had not been reviewed yet (this book is copyright 2010 and came out Dec. 09), but I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised. This book offers from-the-ground-up instruction with all the basics from how to install Wordpress to customizing a template.
The author, George Plumley, has a pleasant style that is neither condescending to the newbie or goofy like I have found some of the "yellow books" to be. I haven't found any fluff here, just solid step-by-step advice and lessons.
I really was just following along and not thinking about whether the book is "good" or "bad", just going through it. Then, in Lesson 7: Working with the Text Editor, I found myself recognizing one of the many gems in this book. As someone who has struggled with more than one text editor until I found out that if you copy/paste from someplace else you need to get rid of the formatting first, I know that this author had the non-geek in mind when he wrote this. His advice is to open a text program such as Notepad and paste the text in there, then copy/paste from Notepad into the editor in Wordpress and the excess coding will be stripped away. Now, this is basic information for a lot of people, but remember the first time you tried to figure out why that Word formatting kept showing up in your Wordpress text editor? Yes, this author had that person in mind and gently drops in a paragraph with a couple of sentences in it addressing the problem and suggesting a solution.
I have hired a designer to do websites in Wordpress for a couple of clients and I wanted to learn to do it myself. I am confident that I'll be able to do it myself next time, thanks to the information provided in this book. The author spends some time going over some of the basics of site planning and organization, basic design, SEO, and backups. If you are a budding website builder, you'll get a lot of time-tested information here. Yes, many books go deeper into each of these subjects, but for the person wanting to put their first site together or get a refresher on the basics, why buy another book if you don't have to? There's plenty of meat to digest here.
The CD is a great bonus, too.
If you have dabbled with Wordpress but knew you were only scratching the surface, do yourself a favor and invest in this book. Certainly, there are those that will say that all of this information is available for free on the web. Yeah, but not in step-by-step form and not in a format you can carry along with you when you're waiting somewhere or need to find the information quickly.
I don't know this author, but I do know that if he writes any other books about a subject that I'm interested in, I'm quite likely to buy it based on my experience with this book/CD combo. I buy and read a lot of techy type books and if I ever owned a book that deserves "6 stars", this is it. This is the gold standard by which all tech-related books should be measured for common sense writing style.
Outstanding Source for using Wordpress January 4, 2010
D. Rosenberg (Michigan)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I am just amazed at how thorough this book is, yet how easy it is to use and understand. Everything is in layman's terms and shown, as well as having written explanations.
I was initially bummed at the price of the book but now that I'm using it I realize what an absolute STEAL it is at this price. I am SO thankful I found this guide.
Very helpful tool January 28, 2010
M. Fulkerson (Portland, Oregon)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This "24-hour trainer" guide in how to optimize your Wordpress page is not only incredibly helpful, but it's easy to understand and follow along. I have been managing a Wordpress site for about a year now, and while experience is always the best way to learn, this book will be a huge help for beginners. Those who have been maintaining a Wordpress site might not be willing to splurge on this book, but I think even the most experienced Wordpress bloggers can find value in what it has to offer.
For one, EVERYthing is covered in this book, even things you wouldn't think of. The troubleshooting in this book is intuitive, and doesn't necessarily reflect trying to fix technical problems. The author imagines a problem arising, and he addresses it.
Additionally, it's not a complete bore to read as most of these technical books can be. It's easy on the eyes, and you'll want to try things out, even if you had no plans to do so.
It also comes with a DVD where you literally sit down and watch how these techniques are applied. It couldn't be any more thorough.
Highly recommended!
A Must Read For Beginners February 10, 2010
Sylvia M. Hubbard (http://SylviaHubbard.com Detroit, MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow! And Wow!
I've gone through the gambit of lots of beginner guides. I'm a fanatic about finding out how to do things.
I really had not expect to be so impressed and actually learn even more about [...] in such a simple matter.
Not only do they have instructions, a video to show you exactly what to do, but they also have these gray boxes throughout the book to highlight even more pointers that are cautions, tips, and more!
I would recommend this instructional guide. Now I won't guarantee that you'll learn EVERYTHING in 24 hours, but this book provides detail coverage of [...] with great resources inside to help you figure out the massive open platform.
Highly recommended for beginners
The Only Book on Wordpress A Beginner Need's April 30, 2010
Manzanita Lodgepole (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I say I'm new to Wordpress, it's as if I'd been wrapped in cellophane, lying in a cardboard box, like a new item on a shelf. I only wish i'd found this book first but I don't think it was on the market yet. It's the only book a beginner needs. Each chapter is like a little classroom where you learn a specific lesson. At the end of each chapter (or lesson) the author gives you supervised practice with step-by-step instruction. It's wonderful. He doesn't talk down to you ( although my ego could take that because of my zero level of knowledge) nor does he reach to a level far above the average person's head. I felt completely at ease with every chapter.
For instance, I like to do videos but I was always having trouble. The author explained so simply why mine didn't have controls when embeded directly. I was trying to put the round pegs in the square holes again. The whole book just made everything easier for me to understand.
The absolute zenith is a DVD that was included. It goes through each chapter showing all the boxes that you'll be working with. To me, it was as if a little bit of Wordpress information heaven dropped into my laptop. Now, I'm positive not everyone begins blogging at the lowly level that I started with. Even if you have your blog up and going with WP, I'm sure you'll be amazed at the new gems of information you will find. I don't know how anyone can understand on their own, all the reasons behind the working of WP and this book clearly defines them all.
I bought a lot of books before I came upon this one. I gleaned a bit of fragmented information here and there and spent a lot of money. Don't let the price on this book scare you away. $44.99 sounds a little pricey for a book BUT it's well worth it. I wasted many times that price before I found this book. Here's the good news. You can buy the book on Amazon for $29.69.
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