WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide (Paperback)

This new, fully updated version covers all the key new features of WordPress 3, including an improved welcome screen with enhanced security and usability; internal linking to articles on one's own blog; support for individual author templates; improved menu interface allowing for changes to be made from inside the WordPress dashboard; and the new, easily customizable Default Theme, Twenty Eleven, with support for child themes and header and background adjustments. It also covers more advanced features, such as improved content management with Custom Post types, which allow WordPress theme developers to create custom content types outside of pages and posts; and integration of the WordPress Multi-User into the WordPress core so that users can create and manage hundreds of blogs.

Salient Features
This fully updated, task-based guide offers the quickest, easiest approach to learning WordPress, the popular self-hosted blogging tool.

* Uses plain, friendly language and organized format to appeal to new WordPress users
* Covers key new features of the platform, such as an improved menu interface; internal linking to articles; and a new, easily customizable default theme
* Walks users through the WordPress setup process, breaking down the creation of a Web site into easily digestible chunks

About the Author
Jessica Neuman Beck is a writer, editor, and Web designer. She is the managing partner at CouldBe Studios, a small-business-focused Web design agency located in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in Shopify and WordPress sites.

Matt Beck is Jessica's business partner at CouldBe Studios, a designer, and a PHP/MySQL developer. He has a solid background in IT and MIS management, including lots of experience with WordPress design and customization.

Table of Contents
* Uses plain, friendly language and organized format to appeal to new WordPress users
* Covers key new features of the platform, such as an improved menu interface; internal linking to articles; and a new, easily customizable default theme
* Walks users through the WordPress setup process, breaking down the creation of a Web site into easily digestible chunks