2014-01-08

The following list of best WordPress books help beginners to realize and understand WordPress thoroughly and developers to take their websites to a higher level.

WordPress is widely popular for ease of use and customization. However, in order to build a wonderful and powerful WordPress websites, webmasters are needed to have many professional skills and technologies to modify, customize, maintain and enhance the websites after creating. We pick out 3 of the best WordPress books in below to help both newbies and experienced users learn about the CMS step by step.

Best WordPress Books for Beginners

WordPress All-in-One For Dummies

Audience: Anyone who is new to WordPress world and has little WordPress concepts and skills but want to be a WordPress master after studying.

WordPress All-in-One For Dummies is a basic book that covers all about WordPress, from installing the software, exploring the dashboard, creating& publish a website, using SEO, integrating social medias, customizing the website appearance, utilizing and developing plugins, running multiple site with WordPress, etc.

It presents all words straightforward and easy to understand. Open the book and you can find useful information, such as

Tips for making a blog stand out

What webmasters should know about open source

WordPress web hosting requirements

How to manage comments

Advice on using site analytics

The list goes on…

At last, you can easily develop a website that suits your needs, delights readers and keeps visitors coming back.

Best WordPress Book for Designers & Developers

Professional WordPress: Design and Development

Audience: Anyone who is expecting to learn about WordPress design and development.

Instead of introducing some basic WordPress materials, Professional WordPress: Design and Development contains advanced content for designers and developers, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and new chapters on custom post types, custom taxonomies, Multisite, and extensions of themes. All the content is up-to-date and packed with real-world examples.

The book is designed for experienced WordPress users, it

Describes the overall of WordPress system

Demonstrates how to extend WordPress through plugins and customize it via themes

Combines a developer view of user experience and optimization with the deployment requirements for performance, security and measurement

Moreover, it also includes code downloads and code samples from the website.

Best WordPress Books for Web Developers

WordPress for Web Developers

Audience: Professional web developers with some working knowledge of PHP.

WordPress for Web Developers shows a complete guide for web designers and developers who hope to start creating and administering websites with WordPress. In addition to introducing the WordPress basics, this book leads readers into server administration, including domain mapping, security, importing and migrating. Moreover, it steps up to WordPress development, which is perfect for developers and designers who have some PHP experience and want to learn to develop custom themes and plugins.

Overall, it helps readers

Install and manage WordPress websites flexibly

Find themes and plugins or create their own with PHP

Maintain and secure WordPress websites

Set up a network of websites and manage theme in a single interface

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