WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner

I am a pretty effective SEO specialist but not an expert to actually build a website from scratch - something that some of my clients would be interested in. So I looked into different programs (Dreamweaver being one of them) and found that Wordpress is the ideal platform. However, there are almost no good courses on WP out there, and just a few decent books, most of them either convoluted, unnecessarily technical, and / or very expensive. But then I was lucky to find "Wordpress to Go" - and was hooked.It's no exaggeration but I can say with total conviction (and no, I'm not getting any rewards for this) that Sarah's book is the best tutorial I have ever read - probably on any subject, and certainly on a technical one, bar none. The main upside of this book is the totally practical approach the author takes (I guess only women can be that practical!): clear, very easy to understand, and virtually holding the reader's hand as she goes through all the important WP modules and menus step by step, and extremely clearly. Sarah is a programmer and as such a professional but she has a very readable and personal style, almost as she was sitting across the table. Oh, and BTW, all the info is up-to-date, not some rehashed, obsolete stuff.Hosting (Sarah maybe receives a commission from Hostgator but so what? Hostgator is really the best), Setup, Installation, all are explained very well. The entire WP structure, and all its critical functions, are totally easy to read and understand - and to apply, too, because practical examples and useful screenshots are there to help. WP has a lot of widgets and plugins, and the author gives all pros and cons, and gives plenty of good advice. It's fair to say that unless a user is severely untalented, he / she will be able to apply Sarah's book to build decent WP websites within a few days, often even faster.This is a relatively short e-book (only 80 pages or so), and Kindle pages are not big, so something had to give, such as extensive MySQL and php guidance which is lacking, along with a few other, though non-critical pieces. But the author is practical (a woman, remember?), and has managed to superbly balance vital knowledge with bottom line applicability, and pack into this great book almost as much information as books 10 times the length, one tenth of clarity, and 20 times the price.Bottom line: this book is worth a lot; and at under $ 5 this is the steal of the year.

This book was an excellent resource for me. I wanted to pull my old website for my consulting business from Yahoo/Aabaco's terrible hosting service and move to a new provider -- and modernize my website in the process. Wordpress seemed the way to go, and this book gave me the roadmap to getting the new site up and going quickly.Why only four stars? This book lacks something very, very basic: an index! It's extremely difficult to find topics in it other than by reading the book A to Z. For example, in my new site I wanted to disable commenting on all pages. I knew there were steps on how to do that in the book... somewhere. I should have been able to go to the index and look up "commenting." Alternatively, if a PDF of the book came with purchase, I could just CTRL+F my way through finding what I need.I'd seriously spend another ~$10 on the next edition of this book if it came with an index or PDF -- the info is THAT good, it's just hard to find...

I had never worked with WordPress before, so when I was told I had to setup a website of my own for blogging and posting my writing projects, I knew I needed help to get started. There are many books available, but I chose this one because it said it was specifically for the complete beginner. I may well need more detailed information in future, but to start out, I wanted the very basic information, presented in a logical order. I did get my website setup and online using this book.Starting with getting your domain and installing WordPress, the instructions are clear and easy to follow. Note that I decided to setup a hosted website on GoDaddy. Different website hosting providers require different steps to install WordPress, but I was able to get through the installation, and it worked the first time, using the instructions in this book. The chapters cover all the basic tasks in great detail, which is what I needed. I learned how to login to my website to perform administrative chores and basic issues when designing a website. Because I had never used WordPress, I didn't know how to create a page for my website or create a blog post, and these tasks were covered, in detail.I needed to upload images for my blog posts and I was able to do this without problems. I didn't know what a static page was, but I learned how to set it up so that my website always shows the same home page. At the time, I was using one of the free WordPress themes just to setup my site, but I was looking for help to choose a theme. The chapter on how to choose and install a theme helped me decide what I was after as I looked at the many themes available. Once I had settled on a theme, I was able to switch my website to use the new theme.Learning to use WordPress requires learning about many things, and I was lost when it came to plugins. I followed the recommendations as to what plugins to install and it all worked for me on the first go. At this point I had my website online and I was adding blog posts and images. The last chapters provided an introduction to search engine optimization, how HTML works and how to expand your WordPress skills further.This book covers the basics of setting up a new WordPress website and assumes no prior experience. It was exactly what I needed at the time. Reading this book got my site online quickly with very little drama. Given that I didn't have any previous experience with WordPress, and how quickly I was able to get my new site online, this book provided exactly what it promised. You can see the results at brianhitchcock.net and brianrhitchcock.com.

I find this book best ever referred so far.This has cleared almost all of my doubts in first reading, Thanks

Muy recomendable para iniciar en el tema, pero hay que actualizarse e investigar más en otras fuentes o libros más recientes

Fantastic read - just get it and read it - better than good.

Si vous lisez l'anglais et êtes débutant Wordpress, cet ouvrage est pour vous. Il est utile de suivre le bouquin en utilisant le thème gratuit évoqué dans le bouquin pour faciliter la compréhension (le thème wordpress de base n'étant plus le même aujourd'hui). Vous aurez à la fin de votre lecture une bonne connaissance de l'outil Wordpress, ce qui vous donnera la possibilité d'obtenir un beau site très rapidement en téléchargement un thème à votre goût.

This book is well written and gives just the critical info needed by a beginner. My only regret is that I finished reading the book. Lots of illustrations, I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to launch their first WP website.