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Set up your own WordPress website and go beyond ordinary blogging

The WordPress platform is so dynamic and flexible that ordinary bloggers and web developers are now using it exclusively to develop robust applications for websites as well as blogging platforms. It doesn’t matter if you’re a casual blogger or web ninja, this thorough tome covers all aspects of WordPress from the most basic through advanced app development.

You’ll learn how to use custom plugin extensions and website themes, retrieve content from your database, maintain web security easily, adapt and use social media, and make changes to your blog without having to change any core code whatsoever! You’ll even get to know the broad range of supporting products that envelops this popular, free and open-source web tool.

You’ll discover new and better ways to enhance your blog’s placement in the search engines and elsewhere. Find new WordPress hooks and adapt the flexible WordPress event-driven programming interface.

You can create awesome and useful WordPress widgets in minutes; explore unexpected uses of WordPress and even boost your site with WordPress MU (multi-user version of WordPress. Think WordPress.com).

You will learn to make sure your WordPress plugins maintain compatibility into the future as well as create very customizable and dynamic templated themes utilizing template tags.

And importantly, you will learn the most advantageous security habits as both a user and developer.

The WordPress Bible is the ultimate WordPress manual for advanced and novice users available today.