Preface
WordPress, by most accounts, is the most popular self-hosted blogging platform in the world. WordPress.com is the second most popular hosted blogging platform in the world. The ecosystem built on openness and extensibility has helped the software thrive and overcome other rivals that, in some cases, have been around longer than WordPress has.
Developers now have the means to take a platform that was built for blogs and turn it into much more robust applications for content management, contact management, e-mail management, and more. I have yet to find something WordPress cannot be made to do with custom plugins and intuitive theming.
There are many books on WordPress available when you go to your local bookstore. Even if the books are not currently in stock, it's elementary to have them ordered or delivered directly to your home from Amazon.com. However, most of these books cover only a portion of WordPress or examine WordPress from a singular perspective. Until now, there has never been a book that covers the topic holistically and exhaustively and for all levels of expertise.
If you're a newbie just getting involved with WordPress, you should find value in these pages in the form of tutorials and tips. I cover the user interface and plugin management throughout this book and have endeavored to write in such a way that the least technical reader can still grab the concepts that are at work.
If you're a developer and have been hacking around with WordPress for years, you will ...
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