Book 17

The ultimate guide to WordPress Themes - one of the hottest topics on the web today * WordPress is so much more than a blogging platform, and Smashing WordPress Themes teaches readers how to make it look any way they like - from a corporate site, to a photography gallery and more * WordPress is one of the hottest tools on the web today and is used by sites including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, flickr, CNN, NASA and of course Smashing Magazine * Beautiful full colour throughout - web designers expect nothing less * Smashing Magazine will fully support this book by by promoting it through their website and on twitter feeds

Book 33

Smashing WordPress

by Thord Daniel Hedengren

Published 4 February 2010
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