Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by Scott McNulty

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  • Publisher: Peachpit Press
  • Pub. Date: December 2008
  • ISBN-13: 9780321591937
  • Sales Rank: 30,187
  • 264pp
 
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Synopsis

WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites. Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates. In this guide WordPress expert Scott McNulty walks readers through the entire process: installation and set-up, dealing with content, tweaking your blog with themes and plug-ins and more. He then provides in-depth coverage of the different types of Blogs available with WordPress (photoblogs, podcasts, group blogs, Tumbleblogs) and finally provides troubleshooting tips for common mistakes, excessive traffic, database issues and backing up.

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Biography

Scott McNulty has been blogging for fun and profit (mostly fun) for eight years. In addition to his personal blog, Blankbaby, he is the Lead Blogger for TUAW.com which covers all things Apple related as well as the co-host, and co-creator, of the Philadelphia based cooking podcast Fork You. Scott lives in Philadelphia, PA where he eats pretzels and cheesesteaks as often as possible.

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Building a wordpress blogby Anonymous

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May 02, 2009: This book is ok from the sense open source platforms like WordPress are hard to keep up with as they are changing all the time. Great book on the basics of getting a WordPress blog setup and that people will want to read. A nice place for WordPress and other blogging ideas check out BloggingElements dot com they have awesome writers and content about WordPress blogs.

I Also Recommend: ProBlogger, The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging.

A friendlier view from a real userby DrGuam

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April 13, 2009: McNulty actually uses the product he writes about which should endear all WP bloggers to this book. This may be the best I have seen of the not super tech/geek/uber_proficient blogger books for using the Word Press system.

This is actually fun to read relative to many application guides on the market today.

A weakness is inherent in the approach that it guides the user through only a particular work flow, and is not a complete guide to all things Word Press. There are however invaluable insights into making a blog work that are not limited just to this tools approach to the blogoshpere.

If you are a blogger who wants to know about or be more comfortable working in this environment, this is your top choice. Support and development people should add this to the library, but as a secondary or added development resource.


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