Wordpress for Dummies

Hey… just found out through Matt’s (Mullenweg) website that the book, “Wordpress for Dummies”, is actually coming out! For those who are experienced “Wordpressers” already, for what it’s worth, wouldn’t it be nice to have a copy of it sitting around on your bedside table? Good reading material before retiring for the night, eh? Heck, it’s even a wonderful book to take along with you inside the toilet when the call of nature arrives! Who knows… we might even learn some new tricks that we never actually new existed in Wordpress!

For those who have just made the leap to Wordpress or blogging for that matter, all the more that you should go out and get a copy of the book… it’ll help hasten the learning curve and make you seem like an experienced Wordpresser. Talk about “hardsell”! Haha!

Amazon.com is already accepting pre-orders and costs only $16.49! According to Matt, the book comes out on October 29th. I have no idea how fast it’ll be on shelves here at National Bookstore or Power Books… hopefully very soon as well.

I’m pretty sure most of my fellow community buddies over at Wordpress Pinoys would love to get their hands on this book! And for those in our group who have, at one time or another, thought of having their own self-hosted Wordpress blog but just couldn’t make the BIG leap because they feel intimidated or overwhelmed by the daunting task of starting over, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have this so as to ease your transition from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org?

Author, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, talks about the book:

About The Book
WordPress is powerful software known for helping bloggers share their thoughts online. Whether you want to set up a blog in the WordPress community, add a blog to another site, or build your own blogging community, this book shows how WordPress can help. With this book, you’ll soon be navigating WordPress templates, plugins, and themes with no problem.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available, with over a million registered bloggers, and climbing! This all-new Dummies guide delivers just what would-be bloggers need to get up and running with WordPress and start communicating with the world. WordPress For Dummies covers blogging basics, choosing a hosting solution or setting up a host, developing blog content, syndicating blog posts with RSS, launching a specialized blog (including podcasting, photoblogging, mobile blogging, and videoblogging), and even earning revenue. It includes help on every aspect of installing and using WordPress, illustrations from real-world WordPress blogs, step-by-step tutorials on key topics, and insights from bloggers who use WordPress.

Discover How To:

- Personalize WordPress Settings
- Understand common template tags
- Manage and moderate comments
- Deal with comment and trackback spam
- Troubleshoot common problems
- Sign up for, set up and use a hosted blog at WordPress.com
- Download, install, set up and use WordPress on your own web hosting account
- Find, download, install and manage WordPress plugins
- Learn and understand the “Loop”
- Learn the ins and outs of simple template tags and theme creation
- Download, install, configure, set up and use the WordPress MU software to create your own blog community/network and MORE

Personally, I can’t wait for it to become available here in the Philippines… I’ll be sure to look around in bookstores in the coming days after the 29th. Goody-goody!

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