Digging Into WordPress ( The Book )

Share | | By: Marcio Rocon | Date posted: Saturday, December 12th, 2009

There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. From your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through maintaining a site throughout the years, this book is packed with truly practical information.

A Lifetime Subscription

When you buy this book, you will instantly get the most current version. But also, you are getting a lifetime subscription to all updated (PDF) copies of the book. Updates will automatically be emailed to you as they are released.

Lots of Code Samples

We go into depth about the anatomy of a WordPress theme. How they work, and how to write the code you need to do the things you want. This means real code that you can sink your teeth into, as well as copy and paste. Beyond theme building, we introduce many tricks your functions.php file can pull off and show you ways to increase performance and security through HTAccess.

Things You Will Learn

How to get things set up right
Building themes and how they work
Keeping sites secure and optimized
Using WordPress as a CMS
Integrate things like Twitter and Delicious
Making the most out of WordPress

Download free book sample

The demo features the Table of Contents and part of Chapter 3

Learn More About the Book

Written by WordPress veterans ( Chris Coyier – css-tricks.com ) and ( Jeff Starr perishablepress.com ), Digging into WordPress is 400+ jam-packed pages of everything you need to get the most out of WordPress. WordPress is great right out of the box, but unless you want an ordinary vanilla blog, it is essential to understand the full potential of WordPress and have the right tools to get the job done.

In clear, easy-to-read language, Digging into WordPress shows you how to tap WordPress’ potential and take your site to the next level. From setup and configuration and customization to syndication, security and optimization, Digging into WordPress gives you everything you need to maximize the success of your site.

Written with the perfect balance of theory, explanation and code, each chapter focuses on teaching you how to improve your site using many different techniques, tips, and tricks. Each technique is fully self-contained, providing complete instructions and clear explanations to make implementation a breeze.

Along the way, as you learn about how to maximize, optimize and streamline your site, you’ll also get scores of bonus information in the form of “pop-out” boxes and side notes. These popouts and asides provide you with further context, insider information, and many more awesome techniques to improve your WordPress-powered site.

What You’ll Get

Here’s what you’ll get with Digging into WordPress:

Solid, in-depth understanding of site configuration, theme customization, performance optimization, SEO, WordPress security, and much more
Clear, easy-to-read language that shows you how to do it yourself and do it right the first time
The perfect balance of theory, explanation, techniques, and the code to make it happen
Tons of supplemental and bonus information containing hints, secrets, and tips and tricks
An beautifully designed book presented in landscape format for easy reading
Plenty of vivid graphics to help explain abstract concepts
Many actual code snippets ready for easy step-by-step, copy-&-paste usage
A vast collection of useful sites and resources hand-picked from around the Web
A linked Table of Contents for easy access, and hyperlinked URLs throughout the book
A lifetime subscription to all future updates to the book
A discount on the printed-format version of the book
Fanatical customer support
And much more!

Digging into WordPress is perfect for WordPress users in the beginner to intermediate range, but contains plenty of great information for the advanced user as well. If you have any level of experience working with web design or WordPress, this book is written to help you take WordPress to the next level.

What You’ll Need

Here’s what you’ll need to get the most out of Digging into WordPress:

A desire to get the most out of WordPress and run the best possible site possible
Basic knowledge of how to setup and work with dynamic websites
Basic knowledge of CSS and HTML. Some familiarity with PHP is helpful, but not required
And of course $27 for the PDF (includes free lifetime updates)

Awesome Techniques

Here are some of the awesome techniques that you will learn from Digging into WordPress:

Setup multiple loops the right way
Setup page-specific menu styles
Create the perfect sidebar (and multiple sidebars)
Import and display Twitter, Delicious, and more
Create, customize, and use child themes
Implement multiple themes for your visitors
Widgetize your sidebar and virtually anything else
Learn the inside tips for choosing the best plugins
Create your own custom theme functions
Maximize WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS)
Configure and optimize your WordPress feeds
Setup and distribute your feeds with Feedburner
Add feed images, style your feeds, and add custom content
Customize and optimize the WordPress Comments Area
Learn about custom comment loops, threaded comments, and more
Learn the best ways to defend against spam
Optimize your site for the search engines
Control duplicate content and optimize your permalinks
How to track your site’s statistics to measure success
Secure WordPress, your files, database, and content
How to monitor and fix errors
Optimize the performance your site
..and much, much more!

Plus hundreds more tips, tricks and techniques sprinkled throughout the book. As you learn the hows, whens, and whys of maximizing WordPress, you get many super-cool techniques and tons of great inside information along the way.