Wordpress 24-Hour Trainer:

Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites (Book & DVD)

by George Plumley (Author)

WordPress intimidates beginners. Once they get a handle on making the first post and a few other basics they start to want to be more adventurous and customize WordPress more to their own liking. If they are comfortable clicking around and experimenting, and reading the codex,  this is fine, but most people prefer to know what they need to do before they mess with things.

This isn’t a book about writing or getting traffic or socializing – its about the nuts and bolts mechanics of the open source content management system or blog platform called WordPress.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique blogging tutorial book and dvd that guides you through the most essential parts of the use, customization  and administration of WordPress. Each lesson teaches you to use a specific area of WordPress and provides a video with each lesson.

This book is the perfect beginner to intermediate 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

You will learn how to plan out your WordPress site. It covers the basics for writing, revising and publishing a new post, and how to add new pages and sub pages. Categories, tags and scheduling are covered. Images can be a stumper for new bloggers, this book shows you how to work with image galleries and also how to manage other media files and widgets.

It also shows you how to approve, edit, and delete comments and help others connect to your site. As well has how to optimize your content so it will be indexed and found by search engines.

Customize WordPress look and feel

It shows you how to customize the look and feel of your site using cascading style sheets (CSS) so even a free theme can be individualized ( if your free theme terms allow this) to look and feel more as you want it to.

It gives you information for optimizing your site and making it search-engine friendly. It also tackles the installation, activation and troubleshooting of plugins. It details how to track your blog’s statistics, about keeping the WordPress software and your plugins up to date, and it shows you how to backup your database.

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