WordPress For All, 2nd Edition

Want to create your own website? Not sure where to start? Confused by buzzwords and jargon?

This up to date book (recently updated to cover WordPress 3.6) will take you step-by-step through everything you need to know in order to quickly and easily create your own fully functional, attractive and professional looking website. What’s more, you’ll be able to do all of this without having to understand or write a single line of code.

The author has been actively developing websites in WordPress since it first came out in 2003, and continues to develop websites in WordPress for himself and his clients.

In this book he will show you how you too can use WordPress to create the website you want.

Here’s Just Some Of What You’ll Learn In This Book…

• Choosing the best domain name, and why getting this right is so important
• Different types of hosting account, and the key things to look out for when choosing somewhere to host your website
• Different (but easy) ways to install WordPress, as well as how to to set up WordPress in single site and multi-site mode (something most books shy away from)
• WordPress concepts fully explained.
• Before you even create a single post or page you’ll discover how to confgure WordPress so that it is set up correctly,
• Options for getting your site looking exactly the way you want it, including how to build your own stunning WordPress theme — without having to write a single line of code!
• How to change, enhance, and add to WordPress’s functionality through plugins, to get your website to behave exactly as you want.
• Securing your site against malware, attacks, and spammers
• Setting up your website up for optimal SEO configuration. Having worked as a SEO consultant the author has plenty of great advice to share with you that you won’t find elsewhere.
• How to easily create the essential pages that every website should have for your site to look credible to customers and the search engines
• Different ways to add images and video to your site
• How to write and publish your content, or schedule it to be auto-published at a later date and time
• Plus lots more!

What Type Of Website Will You Be Able To Create After Reading This?

The book takes you step by step through setting up an example website. It covers the core principles that you need to know to create any type of WordPress site. The author is fully versed in creating business and personal websites, such as ecommerce, membership, sales page, affiliate, and niche websites, and guides you through what you need to know about each of these, and advises on the most effective way to set them up.

Is This Book Right For You?

If you want to do plugin or theme development in PHP, or hand code posts, pages, and just about everything from scratch, then this is definitely not the book for you. This book is perfect for you if you are the sort of person who wants to build a great looking website quickly, without messing about with programming code. Using the techniques and tools shown in this book you will be able to build a well optimized, great looking website that does exactly what you want. You’ll be able to create your own themes, and build your own website with confidence, all without touching a single line of code. If you want stunning results but are more confident typing a letter, than you are at writing lines of programming code, then buy this book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. About This Book
Chapter 2. The Basics
Chapter 3. Choosing And Buying A Domain Name
Chapter 4. Hosting
Chapter 5. Installing WordPress
Chapter 6. Before You Login – Explaining The Concepts
Chapter 7. Logging In For The First Time
Chapter 8. Themes
Chapter 9. Adding The Functionality
Chapter 10. Housekeeping
Chapter 11. Adding Content
Chapter 12. Multiple Authors
Chapter 13. Security
Chapter 14. Specific Site Use
Chapter 15. Conclusion