Word Press for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with Word Press. This book is an update of Beginning Word Press 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most of Word Press. You’ll start by learning Word Press basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.
Then you’ll dig deeper into your Word Press server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for Word Press, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins.
Word Press is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of Word Press’s built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You’ll learn to:
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Stephanie Leary has been building sites with Word Press since 2004, and has always used Word Press for more than just blogs. She worked at Texas A&M University for over ten years, where she established accessibility and web standards and pioneered the use of blogging software (first Movable Type, then Word Press) as full content management systems for departments websites. Stephanie is now a full-time freelance Word Press developer. She is a frequent speaker at higher education conferences, Word Press Meetups, and Word Camps. In between conferences, she can be found giving concise Word Press tips on Twitter.