Wordpress 24-Hour Trainer - Paperback

by George Plumley (Author)

The easy, self-paced guide to the powerful WordPress platform

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3^rd Edition provides a comprehensive, unique book-and-video package that focuses on the practical, everyday tasks you will face when creating and maintaining WordPress websites. This easy-to-use, friendly guide will show you how to create and edit pages, integrate your site with social media, keep your site secure, make content more search engine friendly to help drive website traffic, troubleshoot the most common WordPress issues, and much more.

This updated edition of WordPress 24-Hour Trainer covers the latest features of WordPress 4.0 and 4.1 in an easy-to-use format:

• Fully-illustrated guides to key tasks you'll need to perform with WordPress.
• At the end of each lesson a list of related plugins you can install to make WordPress an even more powerful tool.
• Step-by-step guides at the end of lessons to help you practice what you just learned.
• Videos that show you first hand some of the concepts in each lesson.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3^rd Edition is your perfect real-world guide to fully leveraging this powerful platform.

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Create and expand feature-rich sites with no programming experience

Ready to build, maintain, and expand your web site with WordPress but have no prior programming experience? WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition is your book-and-video learning solution that walks you step-by-step through all the important features you will need to know. Lessons range from focused, practical everyday tasks to more advanced, creative features. Learn from an industry professional how to enter content, create pages, manage menus, utilize plug-ins, connect to social media, create membership and e-commerce sites, and much more. With detailed, easy-to-follow instruction and videos that reinforce each lesson in the book you will soon become a WordPress aficionado.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition:

• Includes step-by-step guides at the end of each lesson to enforce what you have learned
• Covers maintenance and security, and the importance of having backups
• Shares tips for optimizing your content
• Provides fully illustrated guides on key tasks
• Offers a list of related plug-ins at the end of each lesson to help make WordPress an even more powerful tool (over 400 in total)

More than 6 hours of video training

Each Lesson in this book is accompanied by an online instructional demonstration video to reinforce what you learn. Regardless of your learning style, you can now quickly master the basics and expand your skill set with this step-by-step multi-platform learning experience.

Author Biography

George Plumley is a freelance web developer and designer who has specialized in helping small business clients build and update their websites for more than 20 years, the last seven of which have focused exclusively on WordPress. He has trained hundreds of clients and students, and regularly provides workshops and seminars on using and customizing WordPress.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that guides you through all the techniques involved.