WordPress In Depth

The ultimate guide to WordPress: everything bloggers need to know to build, design, manage, and customize their WordPress blogs! For all 15,000,000 WordPress publishers: 6 million hosted WordPress.com bloggers and 9 million who own and run the software themselves. Detailed, step-by-step coverage of everything from installation and security to publishing and customization. Includes advanced coverage: creating new themes, widgets, and much more. WordPress has grown into the #1 blogging tool in its category: several million bloggers have downloaded this powerful open source software, and millions more are using WordPress.coms hosted services. Thirty-two of Technoratis Top 100 blogs now use WordPress. This is a comprehensive reference for everyone who wants to use either WordPress or WordPress.com more effectively -- regardless of their experience with WordPress or with blogging. Gavin Powells WordPress InDepth offers comprehensive guidance for every aspect of using WordPress -- from downloading, installing, and securing it through blog design, templates, themes, posting entries, working with comments and email, and managing WordPress blogs. For bloggers who want to customize their blogs, Powell offers extensive coverage - introducing powerful techniques that cant be performed from the standard GUI interface, but require coding and custom widgets.