Top 8 WordPress Books
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It’s often customized into a Content Management System (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites. (source: wikipedia)
Here you can find a selection of the top 8 WordPress Books.
1- WordPress Web Design for Dummies
By: Lisa Sabin-Wilson
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (June 15, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470935030
- ISBN-13: 978-0470935033
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Establishing a WordPress Foundation
- Part II: Choosing the Right Tools
- Part III: Working with WordPress Themes
- Part IV: building Your Custom Web Site
- Part V: The Part of Tens
Introduction
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) on the web. Users of the WordPress platform can easily publish their content on the Internet because of its intuitive user interface. A large segment of the WordPress user community wants to delve a bit dipper into platform so they can not only publish content, but also make their web sites look fantastic through the customization, design, and manipulation of their WordPress themes. In fact, as a WordPress designer and consultant, two of the most frequent questions I hear from my clients are “How can I design my own theme for WordPress?” and “How can I design and build my entire web site with WordPress?”
This book answers those questions and unlocks the mysteries of designing Web sites with the WordPress content management system. If you have ever tried to tweak an existing WordPress theme file, or even design your own WordPress theme from scratch, and have found it to be intimidating or too difficult to understand, this book breaks it down for you in a friendly and easy-to-understand manner.
2- SMASHING WordPress
- Paperback: 350 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (June 15, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1119995965
- ISBN-13: 978-1119995968
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Getting Started with WordPress
- Part II: Designing and Developing WordPress Themes
- Part III: Using Plugins with WordPress
- Part IV: Additional Features and Functionality
3- Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal
By: James Pearce
- Paperback: 552 pages
- Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (April 12, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470889519
- ISBN-13: 978-0470889510
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: The World of the Mobile Web
- Part II: General Mobile Techniques
- Part III: Major CMS Platforms
- Part IV: Enhancing and Launching Your Site
- Part V: References
Who this book is for?
This is where you come in. You are probably a web developer or administrator with some experience using common technologies like HTML. CSS, or JavaScript, and who probably use an existing content management system like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla!. You’re intrigued by the possibilities of adapting or building a website for a mobile audience, and want to figure out how you might get started.
This book assumes you are relatively technically literate, although you don’t need to be an experienced developer to benefit from the advice or, hopefully, to understand the examples. In fact, one of the huge benefits of having used a content management system in the first place is that you may be quite happily running and maintaining a website without ever having had to write software yourself! If that’s you, then this book should still be appropriate. We talk extensively about how to use off-the-shelf plug-ins and modules to mobilize your websites, and these days, you can get a very long way without having to write a single line of code.
All I ask is that you aren’t daunted by the prospect of the mobile web. Mobile devices (and simultaneously, HTML5 and its related technologies) are changing the way we think about the web as whole and some might feel threatened that their existing tools, infrastructure and skill sets are at risk of becoming obsolete. Not at all! You might be pleasantly surprised at how familiar most of the technology we discuss is – I almost want you to be underwhelmed with how easy it is to establish an online mobile presence! And much of what I want to do i this book is to provoke a change in mindset, rather than learn an entirely new set of tools. The mobile web is different enough from today’s desktop web to require us to revisit a log of our assumptions about how we build sites, and at the bray least I hope you are receptive to the idea of thinking carefully about what your mobile users might really want from these new sites and experience you will be building.
4- Beginning WordPress 3
By: Stephanie Leary
- Paperback: 350 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (May 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9781430228950
- ISBN-13: 978-1430228950
Contents at a Glance
- Introduction
- Chapter1: About WordPress
- Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading
- Chapter 3: Dashboard and Settings
- Chapter 4: Working with Content
- Chapter 5: Importing Content
- Chapter 6: Creating a Basic Theme
- Chapter 7: Creating an Advance Theme
- Chapter 8: Creating Widgets
- Chapter 9: Creating Plug-ins
- Chapter 10: Users and Roles
- Chapter 11: Performance and Security
- Chapter 12: Custom Content Types, Taxonomies and Fields
- Chapter 13: Setting up the Network
5- WordPress Bible
By: Aaron Brazell
- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 8, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470568135
- ISBN-13: 978-0470568132
Contents
- Part I: Getting Started with WordPress
- Part II: Working with Plug-ins
- Part III: Working with Themes and Template Tags
- Part IV: Creating Content
- Part V: Keeping up with the Joneses: Maintenance and Upgrades
- Part VI: Alternate Uses for WordPress
- Part VII: Looking at the WordPress Ecosystem
- Part VIII: Appendixes
6- Head First WordPress
By Jeff Siarto
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (July 30, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596806280
- ISBN-13: 978-0596806286
Table of Contents
- Intro
1- Getting Started: WordPress From Scratch
2- Changing your blog’s look and feel: A question of style
3- Content management with WordPress: Beyond the blog
4- Users, categories, and tags: Keeping things organized
5- Video and plug-ins: Getting things moving
6- Podcasting and syndication: Spreading the word
7- Securing WordPress: Locking things down
8- Making WordPress fast: Tim for the passing lane
- Leftovers: The top ten things (we didn’t cover)
Who is this book for?
If you can answer “Yes” to all of these:
1- Are you familiar with blogs in general, or currently use WordPress to publish and manage blogs and websites?
2- Are you familiar with the concepts of web hosting, file transfer (FTP) and have a basic understnding of HTML and CSS? Do you want to learn how to build not just a blog, but full-fledged WordPress site?
3- Do you prefer stimulating dinner party conversation to dry, dull, academic lectures?
this book is for you.
7- Teach Yourself Visually WordPress
By: Janet Majure
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (March 22, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 047057092X
- ISBN-13: 978-0470570920
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introducing Blogging and WordPress
Chapter 2: Set Up Your WordPress.com Blog
Chapter 3: Set Up your Self-Hosted WordPress.org Blog
Chapter 4: Choose Your Self-Hosted Blog’s Settings
Chapter 5: Know Your Blog’s Dashbard in Detail
Chapter 6: Creat Written Blog Content
Chapter 7: Create Visual and Audio Content
Chapter 8: Extend Your Options with Widgets and Plugins
Chapter 9: Make your Blog Content Appealing
Chapter 10: Build Traffic to your Blog
Chapter 11: Tweak Your Theme
Chapter 12: Use WordPress for Content Management
Chapter 13: Maintain Your WordPress Blog
8- Professional WordPress Design and Development
By: Hal Stern, David Damstra, Brad Williams
- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (April 5, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470560541
- ISBN-13: 978-0470560549
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: First Post
- Chapter 2: Functional Overview
- Chapter 3: Code Overview
- Chapter 4: Tour of the Core
- Chapter 5: The Loop
- Chapter 6: Data Management
- Chapter 7: Plug-in Development
- Chapter 8: Theme Development
- Chapter 9: Content Aggregation
- Chapter 10: Crafting a user Experience
- Chapter 11: Statistics, Scalability, Security, and Spam
- Chapter 12: WordPress as Content Management System
- Chapter 13: WordPress in the Enterprise
- Chapter 14: Migrating to WordPress
- Chapter 15: WordPress Developer Community
Who is this book for?
It was the dichotomy between the almost trivial effort required to create a WordPress-based blog and publish a “first post” to the world and the much more detailed, broad understanding required to effect mass customization that led us to write this book. Many books on the market provide guidance to beginning bloggers by walking you through the typical functions of creating, configuring, and caring for your WordPress site. Our goal was to bridge the gap between an expert PHP developer who is comfortable reading the wordPress codex in lieu of manual and casual wordpress users creating a public persona integrated with social networking sites and advertising services, with a tailored look and feel.
In short, we hope to appeal to a range of developers, from the person looking to fine-tune and a WordPress theme to a more advanced developer with a plug-in concept or who is using WordPress in a large enterprise integrated into a content management system. We do this by exploring WordPress from the inside out. Our goal for this book is to describe the basic operation of a function, and then offer guidance and examples that highlight how to take it apart and reassemble that function to fit a number of needs. WordPress users who are not hardened PHP developers may want to skim through the developer-centric section, whereas coders looking for specific patterns to implement new WordPress functionality can start in the middle and work toward the end.
