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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780321591937
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0321591933
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: December 01, 2008
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press
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Having your own blog isn't just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to get one. but to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you set it up. In this book by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you learn how to:
- Install and get your WordPress blog running.
- Set up your site to ensure it can easily grow with you and your readers.
- Be the master of user accounts.
- Manage your site with the WordPress Dashboard and extend its capabilities with plug-ins.
- Make the most of images.
- Work with pages, templates, and links and—of course—publish your posts.
- Deal with comments—if you even want readers commenting at all.
- Find a theme—or build one yourself.
- Maintain your site and fix common problems.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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