WordPress for Dummies Review - 4 Stars

Dec 19 2007

WordPress for Dummies Review - 4 Stars

Published by Michael at 10:19 am under Reviews, Technical

This is actually the book I wish I had been there when I first started out with blogs and especially WordPress. WordPress For Dummies For Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson was just published last month, but I sure wish it has been published early. Like most blogging books, a couple of chapters up front are spent addressing what blogs are and what they, and WordPress in particular, can do for you. After that the bulk of the book is center on going through how to set up a WordPress.com account or how to install the WordPress.org software (single or multi-user) on your own site. While most of this information can be found on the web, having this book beside you would make the task so much easier. So, if you don’t have everything set up yet, go out now and get this book. It will save you a ton of heartache.

If you already have your blog all set up and in use, most of the book is of far less use to you. I find myself in that category. The two parts then that I could really get my teeth into are the section on theme customization with an explanation of many of the variables, and the second detailing the author’s top ten plug-ins. I found some items there that I had somehow overlooked before and are coming in quite handy. Those two sections really were worth the price of the book for me.

So, why the 4 star rating? Well, if you are just starting out, you really need this book. Pick it up before you start. For you it will be a great companion and time saver and will deserve a 5 star rating. But, if you have been doing this for a while, there will only be a couple of chapters of real value to you. so it will most likely be a 3 star. Average them together and what do you have? 4 stars!

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2 Responses to “WordPress for Dummies Review - 4 Stars”

# Christopheron 19 Dec 2007 at 10:49 pm

Thanks for the review. I am thinking about setting up a blog of my own and am just now going through the thought process of hosting it or using a hosted one. Still trying to figure it all out. Sounds like this book might help.
# Michaelon 20 Dec 2007 at 4:48 pm

Christopher, thanks for the comment. And I would recommend thinking about this very seriously. If you plan on keeping your blog and sticking with it, you really want to look at hosted instead of free from Blogger or something. You need to be you, and build traffic to your site, not build traffic to them and become identified as them. Just something to consider.