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A Step by Step Wordpress Tutorial For Beginners
$19.95
What most impressed me about Mati's book was the simplicity of her explanations, which were usually accompanied by diagrams that show what items to select when setting up your blog. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to use the internet to share their ideas, opinions, or information with the world. This book will be useful to both the technologically challenged and those more familiar with publishing to the web.
Michael Brill, author of Numerology for Healing.

WordPress Complete: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress
$39.99
For $35, I expected something with far more detail and information. I'm a beginner to Wordpress, but I program in other languages. The book gave a bit of an overview, but in the end, I got what I really needed on the help pages.

WordPress Plugin Development (Beginner's Guide)
$39.99
This book is written in a very easy to understand fashion. Each example builds on the the previous example. Its a great way for someone like me, who likes to learn by doing, to learn how to create plugins.

There is a lot of information out on the web that will tell you how to create a plug-in, but this book allows you to follow the creation of a plugin from start to finish.

Highly recommended

Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read
$29.99
For all this book was hyped about to me by other reviews, etc., I found it to be lacking in some serious ways.

First, there are some crucial points in setting up a wordpress blog that you need to know, part of the initial steps of setting up files on your computer, downloading, zip files, etc. These are only BRIEFLY covered at best...the author really misses the point that most people are going to require instructions on the basics of file and computer knowledge, not just getting around wordpress knowledge.

Second, the author jumps around too much. Every other paragraph is something about "this is covered later on" or "see another chapter for advice on this subject". I found myself skipping ahead, then trying to go back, losing my place. He often piles too much knowledge at once on a certain step, then fails to follow through with the rest of the knowledge needed to actually complete the task.

I hope someone will create a "comprehensive" wordpress book, that covers all the angles, every step from absolute start to finish, and that'll be a 5 star book.