This book is the perfect guide to

• Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
• Installing WordPress
• Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
• Working with the text editor
• Styling paragraphs and creating lists
• Working with media files
• Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
• Working with image galleries
• Adding video and audio
• Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
• Making your site stand out
• Helping others connect to your site
• Becoming search engine friendly
• Optimizing your site
• Backing up your site
• Installing and activating plugins

WordPress is today''s most popular open source blog publishing application, but its powerful features, simple interface, and easy expansion make it a great content management system for all types of web sites. This unique book-and-video package provides you with beginner-friendly tutorials for building and maintaining a WordPress web site. You''ll discover how to customize WordPress to meet your needs and you''ll see how critical-and simple-it is to expand and update content in order to make your site as effective as possible.

• Walks you through installing the software, provides an overview of the administration interface, and covers the basic settings you''ll need to get started

• Examines the ins and outs of uploading images, video, documents, etc., and using them on your site

• Demonstrates how to customize the look of your site using cascading style sheets

• Reviews helpful techniques for optimizing your site and making it search-engine friendly

• Explains how to track your site''s statistics, keep your plugins and themes up to date, and practice smart backup habits

• Addresses installing, activating, and troubleshooting plugins

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 each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.

You''ll learn to:

• Plan your site for WordPress

• Write and add a new post

• Handle revisions

• Add new pages & sub pages

• Work with image galleries

• Manage media files, posts, categories, and widgets

• Link to other sites

• Approve, edit, and delete comments

• Customize the design and layout

• Optimize your content

• Extend WordPress

Please see the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.