WordPress 2
by Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan
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Book Reviews of WordPress 2
Book Review: Excellent WordPress Guide Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I've used Blogger platform before and wanted to build entirely new WordPress Blog with my own Domain and Webhosting. I'm so glad that I've purchased this book. It showed almost everything from how to install WordPress on your server, customize it, and manage it. All the instructions are very easy to follow and features plenty of screenshots. There are many useful tips on almost every page. One Downside of this book is that WordPres 2.2 just released and some of the plugin in the book may not be compatible. Otherwise this book is Excellent.Book Review: Not very helpful
Summary: 2 Stars
I was surprised at how poorly written this guide was. Other titles from this series have been very helpful in real-world situations- this book was little more then a very well written advertisement for the product. The image quality is VERY very poor. Again, this series has produced some very good books- this one, however, was a disappointment. The online documentation at Wordpress was much more helpful.
Perhaps increasing the size of the book would help with the image quality?!? As is, they are worthless.
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Book Review: Useless even for a novice
Summary: 1 Stars
I have just started building my website using WordPress and bought this book to help me understand the intricacies of WordPress. The book falls way short of providing any sort of help. It is supposed to be a 'QuickStart Guide' which means that it should help in getting up and running quickly. It fails miserably in this task. Too thin on substance. No clear instructions on even the simplest of tasks e.g., it shows you to create a new page but doesn't say anything about how to make that page availble on the homepage via a link.Book Review: Bad from the get-go
Summary: 1 Stars
I've had reasonable luck with the Visual Quickstart series (the PHP/MySQL books are very helpful, in my opinion) but this volume has proven confusing right from the start, and that seems pretty odd for a how-to book on software that's basically self-explanatory. I got as far as the discussion on how use sidebar widgets, which precedes by 5 chapters the discussion of how to install a theme that utilizes sidebar widgets. Pretty crazy. Buy a different book (or just use the WordPress documents on-line).Book Review: Good resource overall, but a bit short on important details
Summary: 4 Stars
I recommend this book, with a couple of caveats. It's a fairly helpful guide, intended mostly for novices. That being the case, certain how-to explanations are left out, it being assumed you know the WordPress basics already. You will need to go, with book in hand, and play around with the software a bit to see what the authors are exactly describing. This is usually what you need to do with software anyway to fully understand it. Buy this book and use it, just don't expect it to be an A-Z bible.