Primary audience: WordPress developers, deployers and advanced bloggers, both individuals and within enterprises
Secondary audience: WordPress users looking for a more in-depth treatment of the platform and explanation of the most common WordPress mechanics.
• Developer/Internals focus with detailed coverage view of core, themes, plugins, user experience and integration
• Appeals to more advanced users and developers; much broader than hardcore PHP developer audience
• Author visibility: participation in community, WordCamps, meetups, etc.
• Wiley is out in front on the bookshelf with the tremendous sell-through success of WordPress For Dummies 2e, highlighted on the Books page of wordpress.org
• The co-creator of WordPress is the technical editor for the book
WordPress is the most popular self-hosted blogging and content management platform available today, with over 5 million downloads of the latest WordPress 2.7.1 distribution. It is a powerful tool for authors, as well as a platform for web designers and code developers. There are now dozens of WordCamps around the world, from Vancouver to Dallas to Milan, Italy. WordPress powers some of the most influential blogs in the world, such as the Flickr Blog, NASA's Ames Research Center, Dow Jones's Wall Street Journal blogs, Fox News for Greta Wire. WordPress is used by Le Monde, Nancy Pelosi, Rosie O'Donnell, Stephen Colbert, Stanford, MIT, Second Life, Xerox, The US Post Office, and many more.
An in-depth look at the internals of the WordPress system. As the most popular blogging and content management platform available today, WordPress is a powerful tool. This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional aspects of WordPress as well as plugin and theme development.
This book takes an "internals" view of WordPress and drives the fundamentals of how things work to explain use cases and extensions to the core platform. Including hands on examples, and real world tips, this exhaustive book is a must-have for Web and PHP professionals developing on the WordPress platform.
Introduction.
• Chapter 1: First Post.
• Chapter 2: Functional Overview.
• Chapter 3: Code Overview.
• Chapter 4: Tour of the Core.
• Chapter 5: The Loop.
• Chapter 6: Data Management.
• Chapter 7: Plugin Development.
• Chapter 8: Theme Development.
• Chapter 9: Content Aggregation.
• Chapter 10: Crafting a User Experience.
• Chapter 11: Statistics, Scalability, Security, and Spam.
• Chapter 12: Wordpress as a Content Management System 299
• Chapter 13: Wordpress in the Enterprise.
• Chapter 14: Migrating to Wordpress.
• Chapter 15: Wordpress Developer Community.
Index.
This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional aspects of WordPress as well as plugin and theme development. This book takes an "internals" view of WordPress and drives the fundamentals of how things work to explain use cases and extensions to the core platform. Including hands on examples, and real world tips, this exhaustive book is a must-have for Web and PHP professionals developing on the WordPress platform.
• Chapter 1: First Post.
• Chapter 2: Functional Overview.
• Chapter 3: Code Overview.
• Chapter 4: Tour of the Core.
• Chapter 5: The Loop.
• Chapter 6: Data Management.
• Chapter 7: Plugin Development.
• Chapter 8: Theme Development.
• Chapter 9: Content Aggregation.
• Chapter 10: Crafting a User Experience.
• Chapter 11: Statistics, Scalability, Security, and Spam.
• Chapter 12: Wordpress as a Content Management System 299
• Chapter 13: Wordpress in the Enterprise.
• Chapter 14: Migrating to Wordpress.
• Chapter 15: Wordpress Developer Community.
Hal Stern is the VP of Engineering Systems at Sun Microsystems. Hal became interested in WordPress through his sports blog, http://snowmanonfire.com, and has been frustrated by the lack of minimally competent developer material available for the WordPress advanced user community. Hal is the co-author of Wiley's Blueprints for High Availability.
David Damstra is the Manager of Web Services for CU*Answers, a financial services consulting company supervising a team of developers in creating and maintaining more than 120 websites and web applications using WordPress and has created several PHP web applications .
Brad Williams is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com and a co-host on the SitePoint Podcast and Advisor on SitePoint Forums; he was one of the original co-hosts on the WordPress Weekly Podcast. Brad's focus is on open-source technologies likeWordPress. His blog is at www.strangework.com
