Web Designer’s Guide to WordPress: Plan, Theme, Build, Launch (Voices That Matter)
Legions of web designers and developers are choosing WordPress for building sites. That’s because it’s powerful, reliable, flexible, scalable—and more. This book is your complete guide to mastering WordPress theme development, covering everything from installation to leveraging the community and resources to improve your WordPress skills for years to come. You’ll learn how to:
Install WordPress and work on a development server Create site plans and content architecture Develop basic
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Excellent source for developers!,
I’ve been designing and developing web sites for ~15 years now – mostly by hand (you know: barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways). I’ve done plain HTML sites, classic ASP sites, and ASP.NET sites (and, I’m ashamed to admit, I dabbled for a bit in… <gasp>… FrontPage and Dreamweaver). I’ve wrestled with DNN a bit and used Kentico to build a couple shopping carts. But most of my coding has been ASP / ASP.NET. I love the ability to control EXACTLY (as exactly as one can on the web, that is) what displays, and where.
But recently, I’ve needed to build a couple pro-bono sites that the owners will need to maintain themselves. So I was looking for a CMS solution, and decided to give WordPress a try, even though I’ve never done anything in PHP before. I installed WP and added a couple themes, then started poking around under the hood. My deep-seated need for control immediately sent me scurrying to Amazon to look for a guide that would help me learn how to get in and tinker with things with minimal breakage.
Friedman’s book is that guide. It was a quick read, with enough detail to be helpful but not so much as to bog me down. It has lots of links to helpful online sources. And now I feel confident that I can get done what I need to get done in WordPress. I also have a sense of the depth of what else is out there.
(Regarding the links – I had tried a couple of the links, and they worked. Then the links stopped working. I was getting 404 errors on the author’s site. I submitted feedback via the contact form on his site and had a response back probably within an hour. By the next day, the links were working again. It’s nice when an author stands behind his work.)
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|Great Book for the “Not Too Code Savy” designer!,
If you are looking for a book that will help build a foundation of WordPress knowledge then this is your book. You learn everything from how WordPress works, to how to create a theme, to how to use existing code in the form of plugins to your advantage with step by step code examples along the way.
A must have for every designer that uses WordPress!
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|Solid foundation for learning WP, some minor annoyances.,
I started reading this book after inheriting a WP based website created for a non-profit. The initial design is precariously balanced and breaks often, and it became apparent I needed to learn more about WP to fix the mess. This book gives solid foundations for WP themes in a well though out manner, walking through and laying out the steps simply enough for someone with minimal amount of coding background (me). The book gives enough information to get the job done without being overwhelming, but the Advanced chapter is nice for someone who wants a taste of some other cool stuff to do with the platform.
I would agree with the other reviewers that the typeface used leaves something to be desired. It’s hard to read for a long amount of time. Too faint, too thin. Another personal gripe – referring the reader to go online for more content SO much. I get that it’s a book based on the interwebs, but some things could have been succinctly written in off in a sidebar section.
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