Product Description

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.

Unlike other blog hosts, WordPress gives you the ability to create a blog that is tailored to your own tastes and needs. Sure, the codes, tags, and terminology can seem a little intimidating at first, but WordPress for Dummies breaks it all down to show you just how intuitive, friendly, and extensible the software really is. This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to:

• Sign up for a free WordPress account
• Set up and use a hosted blog with WordPress.com
• Install and set up the WordPress.Org and WordPress.MU software for single- and multi-user versions
• Find great themes, plugins, and consultants that will help you achieve JUST the kind of blog you want
• Use tags to work with WordPress templates
• Combat challenges with comments, trackback spam, and “splogs”
• Add special technologies to your blog, such as RSS feed, podcasting, vlogging, and photoblogging
• Find online support, tips, and resources for WordPress software

Whether you want to keep family and friends updated on your latest adventures, post pictures of your new puppy, or communicate your passion with millions of readers worldwide, WordPress for Dummies is your passport to creating the kind of blog that will keep your visitors coming back for more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1803 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Includes coverage of WordPress MU community software

Create a hosted, self-hosted, or multi-user blog, explore plugins, and more.

WordPress is powerful software known for helping bloggers share their thoughts online. Whether you want to set up a blog in the WordPress community, add a blog in the WordPress community, add a blog to another site, or build your own blogging community, this book shows how WordPress can  help. With this book, you'll soon be navigating WordPress templates plugins, and themes with no problem.

Discover how to:

• Personalize WordPress settings
• Understand common template tags
• Manage and moderate comments
• Deal with spam and trackback
• Troubleshoot common problems

About the Author
Lisa Sabin-Wilson has worked with the WordPress software since its inception in 2003 and has built her business around providing technical support, hosting, and design solutions for bloggers who use WordPress. She reaches thousands of people worldwide with her WordPress services, skills, and knowledge regarding the product. Lisa operates a few blogs online, all of which are powered by WordPress.
Her personal blog (justagirlintheworld.com) has been online since February of 2002; her design business at E.Webscapes (ewebscapes.com) has been online since 1999. She also provides a successful Web hosting service, Blogs About Hosting (blogsabout.com), which caters to blogs and bloggers on a global scale.

Customer Reviews

Blog Beyond Best with Wordpress for Dummies
Kudos to Lisa-Sabin Wilson for an excellent training manual on
WordPress. From blogging basics to typing templates, the author
provides practical,clear guidance. Thoughtful organizing of the instructional material into three distinct units: WP Hosted Service,
Self-Hosting with WordPress.org and Implementing WP for Multi Users,
allows readers to dive directly into the information best suited
for their particular blogging setup.

Catherine Eujon
[...]

A Great Wordpress Tool!
This book was very helpful in figuring out how Wordpress works and what you can do with it. I was very happy to find useful examples and explanations of the inner workings of the software. I especially recommend the section on using Wordpress as a content management system.

I recommend this book as a way to get started and a place to go when you get confused over blog specific lingo and the like.

Comprehensive and easy reference book
i have dozens of wp sites and bought this book for one of my bloggers. it is a very useful 'how-to' companion for anyone working with wordpress and blogs.