Review: A great step-by-step process for WP beginners
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
I'm no techie, although I have used Dreamweaver and created websites for myself. I have also paid significant sums of money to have a Joomla site built, and more significant sums to have it re-worked and updated. It is now virtually uneditable without manually updating to the latest version, which is beyond my capability. For that reason I decided to give a shot at creating a new WordPress site myself, before committing more significant sums toward having one built for me. While I had managed to download and install WordPress on a previously unused domain I own, pick out a theme I thought would work and open up WordPress to edit it, I was completely lost as to what I should do first. I bought 30 Minutes to a WordPress website, opened it in my Kindle Android App, opened up my Wordpress editor on my desktop system--and the light bulb quickly illuminated in my brain. While I can't say that I have my full, very content-laden author website up and running in the time indicated, I definitely was able to set up the site, activate necessary plug-ins, customize themes and enter text, images and videos on each of the pages and posts I must copy, paste or re-create from my active site.I highly recommend that any neophytes to WordPress buy and follow each lesson while working "live" with their own skeleton of a site. I like the idea of knowing enough about the structure of my website and the mechanics of the WordPress engine that I am not locked irrevocably to the whims and invoicing of a web manager. 30 MINUTES TO A WORDPRESS WEBSITE has started me on the way toward achieving that goal, although I know I will have to do more indepth study before I can call myself an expert with any degree of honesty. Thanks to this book and its author for not assuming I came with any substantive knowledge of WordPress, even going so far as to tell me how to install it (which I spent hours learning how to do before I bought the book).