Comments on: WordPress for Dummies Book Review

By: Misato

Misato — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:53:57 +0000

I am still trying to learn wordpress myself, and the learning curve for designing a blog is quite a bit steeper for me than it was for me to design a standard website, and some rather professional looking ones at that, so I don’t get this myth that designing a blog is easier than designing a website. I don’t find that to be tha case at all.

One of the main problems is that there is never an up to date book on wordpress. Wordpress changes versions way too quickly for authors and publishers to keep up, so it appears no one will ever have all the accurate information they need from any book on Wordpress.

I read that Lisa herself had this problem when trying to keep her book up to date.

I purchased one of her earlier Wordpress for Dummies book (was like for wordpress 2.5 or 2.6) thinking that even though it was not an up to date version, that the current version of wordpress at the time would not be that much different than the info in the WP for Dummies book. Even though it was outdated, it was the latest version of the book at the time.

Many new versions of a lot of software are hardly different than previous versions of the same software, but as my luck would have it, the info in Lisa’s book and the info one needed to use Wordpress 2.7 was very much different, which made it very difficult to figure out how to use Wordpress.

So no offense to Lisa or any other author of Wordpress books, as I know they have no control over how quickly Wordpress changes, but buying or reading any book on Wordpress is pretty much a waste.

Misato K.

By: eamonn

eamonn — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:14:41 +0000

excellent book

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:08:23 +0000

Is there a lot about WordPress.com in this book?
I’m considering buying it for a friend who’s just started a blog on WordPress.com. She’s very keen in learning how to customise it herself (I’ve been teaching her little bits of CSS), and I’m wondering if this book will suit her.
Thanks!

By: Theme Lab

Theme Lab — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:54:26 +0000

This looks like a great book. I also noticed it was published in November of 2007, so it is fairly recent. Since WordPress is actively developed and new upgrades and bugfixes come out all the time, this is definitely important. Hopefully with the new version of WordPress coming out soon (version 2.5) this book won’t fall behind too much.

By: Gary Ooi

Gary Ooi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:16:27 +0000

I guess this book will help those newbies like me. I’m now on the process of going over the ‘wordpress boat’ from Blogger.

By: Rick SImmons

Rick SImmons — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:44:55 +0000

I read the comments about the info being available on the web but really looking forward to getting a copy of the book for convenience and time saving value of a single volume. Lisa has done the leg work and made the job of getting to grips with WP so much more convenient.
My web projects will take off with the help of this volume.

By: Roy Of Internet Marketing Strategy

Roy Of Internet Marketing Strategy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:38:13 +0000

Thanks for an informative review, I would like to know if there is a section on the book that talks about how you can drive traffic to your blog, or get visitors. Is there a section on this book that deals with the subject?

By: Michael Knight

Michael Knight — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:50:10 +0000

Does anyone remember Remington typoewriters, copy paper and offset presses? Circa 1960?

Today – literally – I am starting me WordPress blogging career. It’ll be a few days before it’s up.

I spent considerable time reviewing other blogware (new word?) but WordPress wins in large part because of the online tutorials.

But to have all the basics in one place as I get started will be much more time-efficient than surfing tutorials.

Good move Lisa.

It’ll be a few days before it’s up…but I intend to buy this book -

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:30:34 +0000

I’ve only recently started to fully grasp the potential of blogs/Wordpress, so I`ve been looking for a good book to bring me upto speed.

Sure the info is there on the web, but you cannot beat a good book on the sofa for actually digesting the infomation, rather than an evening hunched over a PC/Laptop finding snippets here and there, and having to work simply to gather what you need as well as read and digest it too.

Praise be to Books!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:49:25 +0000

I’ve heard that Lisa namedropped me in the book. That’s not fair. I didn’t even have a chance to respond…