How to be a Rockstar WordPress Designer Book Review
WordPress is an impressive open source blog engine and it’s been a long time since I have been this enthusiastic about a new application. WordPress is easy to extend and manage; not an easy feat to achieve. Enough praise about this great app, let’s get to the book.
I know the basics about WordPress, built a few blogs, created custom templates and even a few very simple plugins but I find it easier to grasp something new when someone else has written a book filled with real world examples. That is exactly what “How to be a ROCKSTAR WordPress Designer” is. The book covers a lot of ground from the basics to what else can WordPress be used for.
The concepts of blog design, how to move your design comps from Photoshop to HTML, explaining “the loop”, how to extend your template without writing a plugin, basic plugin building, splitting your template into multiple files, widgets and everything else you need to get from not knowing anything about building a WordPress theme to a ninja in no time.
My favorite part is the final chapter in the book that lists “Innovative Ways to Use WordPress“, and the items listed are truly innovative. The diversity of uses show just how powerful yet simple WordPress really is.
This book has answered a lot of questions I had when trying to sift through the WordPress API documentation and even a lot of online examples I had downloaded and reviewed. Collis Ta’eed and Harley Alexander have done an incredible job writing this book and I can’t wait to read the others available from the Rockable Press.
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Thanks for the info on the book. I swear by WordPress, but I’m definitely an end-user and have no development skills. I’d love to be able to learn how to design my own themes…
I just started using worpress and am probably not ready to make my own themes quite yet. any good unique pre-made theme sites you know of?
its a great book thanks to rockablepress
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Thanks for the info on the book.
thanks for referral on book. I’ve played with wordpress and created a couple simple blogs, but have been looking for guide to take full advantage.
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this is very informative. if you really have it then be it! Be a rockstar!
What template are you running on this site ? I really like it. Could you post where you got it from ?
i love wordpress and this is exactly what i needed, thanks
Wordpress is definitely the easiest and fastest website management system to set up, and has everything you need to make a ‘real’ website with advanced functions like forum, gallery, event calendar, classifieds – what do you want more? I’m very curious about the ‘innovative ways to use it’ of the book you’re recommending.
Great book, WordPress if my favorite website management system.
Very interesting read, I think their would be a lot of mixed opinions on this. Love the theme that you are using, what is it?
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Very good suggestion. I had months to read something so informative as this book. Surely gives another perception of WordPress.
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I’ve played with wordpress and oyUn created a couple simple blogs, but have been looking for guide to take full advantage.
I’m also really impressed with it – I’m starting a TV-reviews blog and it hasn’t failed me yet. Fingers crossed!
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Thank you for this insightful book review. I’m really interested in using WordPress other than a blog. Right now I’m reading Ian Stewart’s series on how to make a WordPress theme to improve Archetype, my theme framework. After reading this review I will definitely check out this book. Thank you and have fun.
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Hi, I got the book because you recommended it. It’s really great and I love it! I just finished the lesson how to create a Photoshop website template and make a WordPress website from it.
Excellent stuff, thanks again for recommending!
Nice idea to review it. Well, glad that your sharing it with us. Thanks!
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Thanks for the help with my corporate website design. The information on WP helped out alot. Thanks!
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Thanks for the great review of this book. I have been considering buying it for some time now and I think this review has helped me make my mind up.
I have a good understanding of xhtml/css and a little knowledge of php, but haven’t really used wordpress at all. I am very interested in learning how to incorporate wordpress into my clients sites to use as a content management system.
I hope this book will be suitable for me.
The general principle here is to give users the basics of how to update their websites and sustain a CMS web website on a day to day base. Matters like installing, plan of the navigation interface, code optimisation etc are all very lots more advanced and typically take days or weeks instead than minutes to perform properly.
Thank you for this good tip. I’m going to try it for myself and I believe that it will run well for me as well. I really love premium themes for WordPress as WordPress is the professional blogging platform out there.