As an open source content management system, WordPress allows users to easily build feature-rich web sites with no programming experience. This unique book-and-video package is a friendly, self-paced beginners guide to the latest release of WordPress. Lessons are focused on practical, everyday tasks that users will need to create and maintain their sites: entering new content, creating new pages, managing menus, making content search-engine friendly. Plus you'll find lots of tips based onyears of experience teaching people to use WordPress.

You'll also learn how to extend the functionality of WordPress by using the thousands of plugins available. Connecting to social media, creating membership and e-commerce sites, setting up events calendars, making your site mobile-friendly—these are just some of the plugins you'll be introduced to. Each lesson in the book is supplemented by an instructional video intended to enhance your learning experience. Plus, a trouble-shooting appendix addresses various issues to help you solve any challenges you may face.

Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book.

WordPress is an increasingly popular open-source content management system that exists in either a self-hosted or hosted version and allows you to build and maintain a feature-rich website. This unique book-and-video package serves as a friendly, self-paced learning experience on the capabilities and newest features of the self-hosted version of WordPress (though much of it also applies to the hosted version). Veteran author George Plumley teaches you how to customize and extend WordPress in a number of ways in order to make it do exactly what you need. The valuable lessons featured in the book focus on everyday tasks and are supplemented on the instructional video to enhance your learning experience.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, Second Edition:

• Demonstrates how to enter new content, create new pages, and make content search-engine friendly

• Details techniques for breaking up large amounts of text, writing a post, and creating a sub page

• Explores plugins that help you connect your site to social media, make your site mobile friendly, and more

• Addresses creating and managing menus and displaying links

• Explains how to find files in the media library

• Walks you through running multiple websites from a single installation

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 will guide you through all the techniques involved.

On the DVD

Don't just learn—do!

The lessons within the book are accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.

You'll learn to:

• Plan what you need to do before starting your site

• Install WordPress

• Enter your content and publish it

• Upload images, video, documents, and more

• Navigate through various types of content

• Deal with links, comments, RSS feeds, social networks, and multiple users

• Work with themes

• Optimize your site

• Make sure your software is up to date

• Add functionality with plugins