Video Training by Wrox

As an open source content management system, WordPress allows users to easily build feature-rich web sites with no programming experience. This unique book-and-video package is a friendly, self-paced beginners guide to the latest release of WordPress. Lessons are focused on practical, everyday tasks that users will need to create and maintain their sites: entering new content, creating new pages, managing menus, making content search-engine friendly. Plus you'll find lots of tips based on years of experience teaching people to use WordPress.

You'll also learn how to extend the functionality of WordPress by using the thousands of plugins available. Connecting to social media, creating membership and e-commerce sites, setting up events calendars, making your site mobile-friendly—these are just some of the plugins you'll be introduced to. Each lesson in the book is supplemented by an instructional video intended to enhance your learning experience. Plus, a trouble-shooting appendix addresses various issues to help you solve any challenges you may face.

As a bonus, we’re including the complete ebook for a second WordPress book Professional WordPress 2nd Edition. This advanced tutorial will expand the skills you’ve learned in WordPress to extending WordPress through plugins and customizing it via themes, a developer view of user experience and optimization, deployment requirements for performance, security, and measurement, HTML5, CSS3, and javascript, custom post types, custom taxonomies, and multi-site installations.