Stephanie Leary 
Beginning WordPress 3 [PDF ebook] 

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily—and better yet, it’s free. Word Press is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.

Beginning Word Press 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using Word Press. You’ll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.

Table of Content

About Word Press.- Installing and Upgrading.- Dashboard and Settings.- Working with Content.- Importing Content.- Creating a Basic Theme.- Creating an Advanced Theme.- Creating Widgets.- Creating Plugins.- Users and Roles.- Performance and Security.- Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields.- Setting up the Network.

About the author

Stephanie Leary is a web developer for Texas A&M University and the co-owner of Paged Media, a freelance business catering to authors and other publishing professionals. She began developing themes and plugins for Word Press in 2005, and has taught numerous workshops on using Word Press as a content management system.