Books

Here are all the WordPress books we know about, linked to Amazon (where we spend all our money) for your one‑click pleasure.

  • WordPress for Business Bloggers

    WordPress for Business Bloggers

    Paul Thewlis

    This book will take you beyond the basics of WordPress, helping you take full advantage of its rich and powerful features to transform your basic blog into a more advanced and professional blog as quickly and painlessly as possible.

    Packt Publishing | 2008

  • WordPress Theme Design

    WordPress Theme Design

    Tessa Blakeley Silver

    This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up your WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up your theme's template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live.

    Packt Publishing | 2008

  • WordPress for Dummies

    WordPress for Dummies

    Lisa Sabin-Wilson

    Are you a wannabe blogger? A seasoned pro migrating your blog to WordPress? Looking to do more cool stuff with your existing WordPress blog? Then this fun guide is for you! WordPress for Dummies is a veritable smorgasbord of WordPress information, ideas, tools, resources, and instruction on everything you need to create and maintain your dream blog.

    For Dummies | 2007

  • WordPress 2 Visual QuickStart Guide

    WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart Guide

    Maria Langer and Miraz Jordan

    This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.

    Peachpit Press | 2006

  • WordPress Complete

    WordPress Complete

    Hasin Hayder

    A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress.

    Packt Publishing | 2006

  • Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

    Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

    Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, and Jared W. Smith

    Whether you want to build a community with a content management system, a bulletin board, or a blog, Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress will instruct you. This authoritative guide is based on open source software.

    Apress | 2005