Find 12 Important Books on Wordpress

Here are many of the WordPress books we know about, linked to Amazon (where we spend all our money) for your one‑click pleasure.

Digging Into WordPress - Jeff Starr, Chris Coyier
In clear, easy-to-read language, Digging into WordPress gives you the tools and knowledge to tap WordPress' potential and take your site to the next level. From setup and configuration to security and optimization, Digging into WordPress gives you everything you need to maximize the success of your site.
Self Published | 2009

WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials- Brian Bondari, Everett Griffiths
WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is a practical hands-on tutorial for learning how to create your own plugins for WordPress. Using best coding practices, this book will walk you through the design and creation of a variety of original plugins.
Packt Publishing | 2011


WordPress 3 Complete- April Hodge Silver
WordPress 3 Complete will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers.
Packt Publishing | 2011


Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes- Chuck Tomasi, Kreg Steppe
Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you'll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone.
Sams Publishing | 2010


WordPress 3 Site Blueprints- Heather R. Wallace
Follow along as you work to build a variety of sites-all using WordPress. While this book isn't designed for beginners, those with even an intermediate knowledge of WordPress will be able to get these sites up and running in no time. Also, since each chapter is devoted to the design of a different site, there's no need to read the book in any particular order. Instead, you can pick and choose the blueprints that are of the most interest to you and dive right in.
Packt Publishing | 2010

WordPress for Dummies- Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Are you a wannabe blogger? A seasoned pro migrating your blog to WordPress? Looking to do more cool stuff with your existing WordPress blog? Then this fun guide is for you! WordPress for Dummies is a veritable smorgasbord of WordPress information, ideas, tools, resources, and instruction on everything you need to create and maintain your dream blog.
For Dummies | 2010 (Third Edition)

WordPress Top Plugins- Brandon Corbin
This book will show you how plugins work, and more importantly, how to install and activate them on your blog without you having to touch a single line of code, unless of course, you want to. Content is king, and it's pretty hard to generate. This book will cover some of the best plugins available on WordPress to generate unique and dynamic content.
Packt Publishing | 2010

WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide- Vladimir Prelovac
From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials.
Packt Publishing | 2009

WordPress for Business Bloggers- Paul Thewlis
This book will take you beyond the basics of WordPress, helping you take full advantage of its rich and powerful features to transform your basic blog into a more advanced and professional blog as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Packt Publishing | 2008


WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook- Nick Ohrn & Lee Jordan
Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site and give it a professional look, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. This easy-to-use step-by-step guide will help you create powerful themes for your WordPress web site, and solve your theme development problems in a quick and effective way.
Packt Publishing | 2010

WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook- Peter Spannagle & Sarah Soward
WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform now. This flexible CMS is the power behind millions of URLs, including blue-chip companies, small business, and personal websites. Flash is a world-famous multimedia platform. This book will show you the best of the proven and popular strategies and techniques to deliver rich multimedia content, which will let you sail through the world of Flashy WordPress with ease.
Packt Publishing | 2010

How to Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer- Collis Ta’eed & Harley Alexander
Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.
Rockable Press | 2009