Aaron Brazell 
WordPress Bible [PDF ebook] 

Part I: Getting Started with Word Press 1
Chapter 1: Learning About Word Press 3
Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Word Press 23
Chapter 3: Word Press, SEO, and Social Media Marketing 43
Chapter 4: Finding Help in the Word Press Support System 63
Part II: Working with Plugins 77
Chapter 5: Extending Word Press with Plugins 79
Chapter 6: Building Widgets and Navigation Menus 115
Chapter 7: Understanding the Word Press Database Class 137
Chapter 8: Dissecting the Loop and WP_Query 159
Part III: Working with Themes and Template Tags 179
Chapter 9: Using Free or Premium Themes 181
Chapter 10: Understanding the Template File Hierarchy 195
Chapter 11: Adding Java Script and CSS to Themes 225
Chapter 12: Dissecting the Comment Loop, Template Tags, and Theme Best Practices 245
Part IV: Creating Content 269
Chapter 13: Navigating the Content Production Experience 271
Chapter 14: Using Offline Editors 291
Part V: Keeping Up with the Joneses: Maintenance and Upgrades 311
Chapter 15: Performing Automatic Upgrades 313
Chapter 16: Moving to Word Press and Backing It Up 323
Chapter 17: Word Press Maintenance and Security 349
Chapter 18: Caching Strategy to Ensure Word Press Scales 369
Chapter 19: Understanding Word Press Roles and Capabilities 389
Part VI: Alternate Uses for Word Press 399
Chapter 20: Using Word Press for Alternative Blogging 401
Chapter 21: Word Press as a Content Management System 423
Part VII: Looking at the Word Press Ecosystem 437
Chapter 22: Leveraging Word Press Multisite Functionality 439
Chapter 23: Adding User Forums with bb Press 459
Chapter 24: Creating Your Own Social Network with Buddy Press 469
Chapter 25: Using Back Press as a Development Framework 485
Chapter 26: Word Press.com and the Automattic Products 495
Chapter 27: Leveraging Automattic Products 513
Part VIII: Appendixes 529
Appendix A: Word Press Hook Reference 531
Appendix B: Template Tags 589
Appendix C: Word Press Hosting 643
Appendix D: Word Press Vendors and Professional Services 653
Appendix E: Word Press in Government 665
Appendix F: Word Press in Major Media 675
Appendix G: The General Public License 683
Index 689

Aaron Brazell is a Word Press expert, core contributor, and developer currently responsible for directing and developing a Word Press premium platform for customers. His Word Press knowledge extends back to the early days of the software, and he has worked on large-scale Word Press installations from both a technical/scaling perspective to complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the software plugin API. He maintains a business and technology blog, Technosailor.com.
Mark Jaquith is one of the lead developers of Word Press and an independent Web services consultant. With over four and a half years of extensive experience with Word Press, he has written several popular plugins and contributed countless patches to the core Word Press engine.