Best WP book for beginners??

[aceRmk]

I am not begginer at wordpress but I have much to learn and that is the reason I registered on this forum. Just tell me your opinion about which WP book is best for beginners.
I googled and I found a few nice books and according to the reviews I had read about Wordpress for Dummies 3rd Edit. is the best for dummies/beginners.
What do you think?

[andreasnrb]

WordPress Bible is suppose to be good.

[aceRmk]

I was planning to buy that book but I read some reviews that it was for some more proffesional

[dgwyer]

There are a lot of books appearing about WordPress now and some are very good. Some of them tend to play it safe and go through a predictable TOC with pretty shallow depth mainly focusing on how to use the admin features of WordPress.

One of the better ones I have seen this year is "Professional WordPress: Design and Development". It has a good level of detail and manages to cover all the major topics for someone new to WordPress who wishes to do some development work (i.e. not just learn how to use the back end to write blogs etc.).

I would like to see more dedicated books on theme design, and also Plugin authoring rather than trying to encompass everything in one reference type publication. There are some already out there but they are mostly out of date. Gap in the market..? ;)

[aceRmk]

Oh I didn't know about this book but now when i saw the contents it looks pretty good and well detailed. Now I am wondering which of this books I should buy

[andrea_r]

In order of difficulty:
- wordpress for dummies
- professional wordpress
- wordpress bible

I have all three. ;)

the For Dummies one is very basic. If you have question about how to write a post, what's the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com, and how do I install plugins and themes, then you should start there.

[dgwyer]

"Beginning WordPress 3" is also worth a look too.. Published a couple of months ago.

[aceRmk]

In order of difficulty:
- wordpress for dummies
- professional wordpress
- wordpress bible

I have all three. ;)

the For Dummies one is very basic. If you have question about how to write a post, what's the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com, and how do I install plugins and themes, then you should start there.

I have some basic knowledge about wordpress that inculdes customizeing themes, installing themes and plugins, installing wordpress and some other things.
Can you tell me the price of the three books?

[dgwyer]

Just head on over to Amazon as a starting point..

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...1.41_148&fsc=4

[syedbalkhi]

Digging into WordPress << is another great book by Jeff Starr.