GO BEYOND THE BLOG
Smashing WordPress shows you how to utilize the power of the WordPress platform, and provides a creative spark to help you build WordPress-powered sites that go beyond the obvious. You will learn the core concepts used to build just about anything in WordPress, resulting in fast deployments and greater design flexibility.
Inside, WordPress expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog and shows you how WordPress can serve as a CMS, a photo gallery, an e-commerce site, and more.
YOU WILL LEARN:
THE ANATOMY OF A WP INSTALL AND HOW WORDPRESS ACTUALLY WORKS
HOW TO BUILD BEAUTIFUL WORDPRESS THEMES - INCLUDING CHILD THEMES
HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM LOGIN FORMS AND ADMIN THEMES
HOW TO USE THE LOOP TO CONTROL CONTENT, AND EVEN USE ALTERNATIVES TO THE LOOP
HOW TO INTEGRATE THEME OPTIONS
HOW TO BUILD PLUGINS - INCLUDING WIDGET FUNCTIONALITY
HOW TO BUILD YOUR WORDPRESS PROJECTS FOR SEO
INTEGRATE WORDPRESS WITH THE SOCIAL WEB
HOW TO CREATE AMAZING NAVIGATION
HOW TO USE CONDITIONAL CONTROL ELEMENTS
From the Back Cover
Go Beyond the Blog
Smashing WordPress shows you how to utilize the power of the WordPress platform, and provides a creative spark to help you build WordPress-powered sites that go beyond the obvious. You will learn the core concepts used to build just about anything in WordPress, resulting in fast deployments and greater design flexibility.
Inside, WordPress expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog and shows you how WordPress can serve as a CMS, a photo gallery, an e-commerce site, and more.
You will learn:
The anatomy of a WP install and how WordPress actually works
How to build beautiful WordPress themes – including child themes
How to create custom login forms and admin themes
How to use the loop to control content, and even use alternatives to the loop
How to integrate theme options
How to build plugins – including widget functionality
How to build your WordPress projects for SEO
Integrate WordPress with the social web
How to create amazing navigation
How to use conditional control elements
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About the Author
Thord Daniel Hedengren is addicted to words, which led him to launch his first online newsletter in 1996. It all went downhill from there, with dozens of sites and a career as editor and freelancer in Sweden and abroad.
Going international all started with a blog post, which led to a book deal with Wiley, which in turn resulted in the Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog book and its follow-up Smashing WordPress Thems: Making WordPress Beautiful, and an even stronger voice in the WordPress community. You’re holding the second edition of critically acclaimed Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog in your hands right now. This is really just the beginning since that word obsession keeps Thord spewing out new stuff.
When not obsessed with words, Thord and friends are building cool websites using WordPress at his web design firm Odd Alice. He also edits magazines and writes freelance articles for both print and web publications, in both Swedish and English. You can follow everything Thord on http://tdh.me.
Thord lives in the land of kings, Sweden.
