This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites. Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates. In this guide WordPress expert Scott McNulty walks readers through the entire process: installation and set-up, dealing with content, tweaking your blog with themes and plug-ins and more. He then provides in-depth coverage of the different types of Blogs available with WordPress (photoblogs, podcasts, group blogs, Tumbleblogs) and finally provides troubleshooting tips for common mistakes, excessive traffic, database issues and backing up.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 23 Ratings

Don't buy wordpress books-- go to wordpress.org - 2009-07-16
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Wordpress 2.8 is a different beast and the Automattic guys release new versions frequently. Thus, by the time things get to a book format, it's too late.

Reading a book about wordpress is like dancing to learn how to read-- if you want to build a blog, read blogs. If you want to swim, get in the pool and get instruction.

Beware - Wordpress has changed since this book was published! - 2009-05-06
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This book was delivered yesterday - I'm on page 40 and already frustrated.

The Wordpress dashboard and all the admin layouts have been changed since this book was published. It seems that not only do actual pages look different than they look in the book, but Wordpress has changed where various stuff sits. So he'll be talking about something, for example, on the dashboard - and that thing no longer sits on the dashboard, it's under some other menu.

That said, I'm sure I'm better off with something to guide me than nothing at all.

still in need of a solid wordpress how-to book - 2009-09-25
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For all this book was hyped about to me by other reviews, etc., I found it to be lacking in some serious ways.

First, there are some crucial points in setting up a wordpress blog that you need to know, part of the initial steps of setting up files on your computer, downloading, zip files, etc. These are only BRIEFLY covered at best...the author really misses the point that most people are going to require instructions on the basics of file and computer knowledge, not just getting around wordpress knowledge.

Second, the author jumps around too much. Every other paragraph is something about "this is covered later on" or "see another chapter for advice on this subject". I found myself skipping ahead, then trying to go back, losing my place. He often piles too much knowledge at once on a certain step, then fails to follow through with the rest of the knowledge needed to actually complete the task.

I hope someone will create a "comprehensive" wordpress book, that covers all the angles, every step from absolute start to finish, and that'll be a 5 star book.

Best book on WordPress I've read! - 2009-06-06
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This is, by far, the best book I've read on setting up a WordPress blog. Scott McNulty explained all of the options and buttons that scared me at first. :) His humor helped equalize the tech terror I felt before this book. His suggestions for the 5 important plug-ins were right on the money and free to boot. Thank you, Scott!

An excellent read - 2009-04-13
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This book was a required reading for a graduate course on Web content. It was my favorite reading assignment out of two years worth of information studies. Scott McNulty is amazing. I laughed out loud from beginning to end and I could not put this down. It is the perfect combination of instruction, experience, and humor. I highly recommend this as a fun read as much as a manual on how to build a blog. Scott McNulty (a.k.a. "Dr. Awesome") is my hero.

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