New WordPress Book - WordPress 3 Site Blueprints

[Jeffro]

Saw this come across the wire today. It's a new book by Heather R. Wallace, someone I have never heard of, published by Packt. The book takes a different approach to writing about WordPress by devoting chapters to creating specific websites using WordPress. For instance, take a look at the books table of contents.

https://www.packtpub.com/toc/wordpre...table-contents

Also check out the sample chapter.

https://www.packtpub.com/sites/defau...ied-ads%20.pdf

I don't have an affiliate link for the book just for disclaiming purposes. Over all though, I like the idea of this book. Instead of writing specifically about the software, it more or less has specific recipes to create specific sites with WordPress.

[keith70]

Thanks for info! Purchased!

[Jeffro]

Cool Keith. Would love it if after you read a few chapters of the book if you would consider writing a review of it as a guest blog post for WPTavern.com.

[keith70]

I will try and do that sometime this weekend.

[andrea_r]

Packt books actually follow a very strict format that the authors have to stick to. :-/ It's very step-by-step, so this type of book look slike it fits that format *extremely* well.

[Jeffro]

Cross posted from the WPTavern website in a comment reply I wrote:


Yes, the entire chapter is mainly about installing and customizing ClassiPress along with a selection of plugins that in the end, creates a fully functional classified ads website which was the entire point of the chapter. What I meant by my statement that you quoted was that books such as WordPress For Dummies or WordPress For Beginners and many other books simply tell you how to install plugins and themes and that’s it. Just the basics. This book on the other hand tells you specific themes and plugins to install and use to come up with a particular use case of WordPress which the sample chapter was an example of.

I thought the book was a great example of simply providing the ingredients necessary to create specific kinds of sites with WordPress, themes and plugins. While there might be better ways to accomplish the same thing e.g. Custom Post Types, I think this kind of book at least opens up the floodgates for creativity for many out there that didn’t know WordPress could be used for these types of sites.