Steve approached me last week with an assignment. He wanted me to read WordPress 2 by his friend Maria Langer and her co-author Miraz Jordan over the weekend and report back about how much it rocked or didn’t rock.
“Oh great,” I thought, “in addition to everything else I have to do, Steve wants me to read a book! And over the weekend, no less! But he’s the boss…”
But now, I feel a little silly for all of my internal bitching and moaning, since this book came in really handy during the redesign of my personal blog this past weekend. There are a lot of great PHP tricks listed in the Template Tags section of the WordPress codex, but I find about half of the explanations of the tags overly confusing. By contrast, the WordPress 2 book makes everything crystal clear and easy to follow. The book is worth buying for that reason alone.
We’ve been doing a lot of WordPress consulting of late, but to be perfectly honest, tech-savvy business folks can probably get most of the same value-add out of this book. It’s a very useful tool for anyone who doesn’t already know Wordpress inside and out, which is the vast majority of the population. I can also imagine that it would be a handy desk reference for even the most experienced guru.
In the interest of transparency, I should note that the publisher of the aforementioned tome is also the publisher of our recent Publish and Prosper: Blogging for your Business.
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Tris Hussey 12.07.06 at 9:58 am
Oooh sounds like a great book … where can I get my hands on a copy?