Some time ago, I stumbled upon the book WordPress for Beginners and ended up a purchasing a copy of the book as a reference for me as a new user to WordPress. After reading through the book, I thought I would discuss the pro’s and con’s to this book if you too are someone who is new to WordPress and wants to get a good understanding of the basics so that you can optimize your current WordPress website or create a new one!
What the book is about
The book really is a beginners guide to using WordPress. It gives the user all the information they need, along with step by step instructions, to set up a WordPress website from scratch without needing to know or use code. The book also helps the user learn the important steps to take when building a website, like buying a domain name and hosting, and how to choose those services. It dives into the basics of SEO and even how to design and customize your website.
Who this book is written for
This book is for anyone who would like to start a blog or website and knows they want to use WordPress. If you have never setup a WordPress website before, this book will walk you through each step necessary to get your site up and running and looking the way you want. Because this book has to do with building a website, I think that a certain amount of computer experience is necessary in order to use this book properly, and one should also know how to get themselves around their computer fairly well in order to make use of this book!
Limitations of the book
To be completely honest, most if not all of the information in this book can be found online through some simple web searches, so if you are someone who is confident in their ability to find information online for free, you may not want to spend your money on this book. That isn’t to say that this book is useless to anyone who could search for the information for themselves as it would probably save you time to just buy this book and read it, but if you don’t want to spend the money, you can find guides on using WordPress and creating a new site elsewhere.
This book also only focuses on the basics of starting a new website so if you are trying to convert your blog from an alternate hosting site like blogger to WordPress, this book isn’t going to help you with the steps necessary in that transition, but it will help you understand how to set your website up before you make that transition, and how to use the tools available in WordPress after you have transitioned.
Overall, this book is very bare bones basic about using WordPress, but gives you some good SEO tips, suggestions for naming your domain and other tricks that are good reference materials even for those of you who are a little more savvy and have some website know-how. If you are looking for a book that will tell you how to do everything in WordPress, this isn’t it, but its a good starter guide for someone who wants to start a blog but has no WordPress experience!
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I’m quite glad to have seen a post on something like this, I was going to buy a similar book for blogger, but I think the limitations youve pointed out here are probably going to apply for the other one.