10 Best WordPress Books of 2014 for Beginners

If you are thinking to use the flexible and powerful tool called WordPress for creating both blog and non-blog websites but don’t know how and where to start from, then we’re here with our list of top best basic WordPress books perfect for beginners or individuals just starting out.

A random visit to most content based websites over the internet will show you the various ways different blogger, designers and developers have designed, organized, and developed their websites. It can be quite daunting as a beginner seeing the modernized feel of these blog and business sites. Well this is exactly why we have selected the following list of books.

These books can give you that edge not only in understanding website design and development, but also how WordPress can easily be used to create and manage beautiful and professional sites. Though these WordPress books are perfect for beginners, they are dynamic enough from all for you to learn and grow with the growth of core Wordrpress functionalities. The beauty of it all is that you don’t even need to know coding or HTML.

 
Without further ado, let us being with introducing the top basic WordPress books that are clear, helpful, informative – and timeless resources as you kickstart WordPress.

Our list of Best Selling Basic WordPress Books:

WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On You Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner.

Do you want to build your own website but don’t know where to start?

Then here is the book which will give you proper guidance. In eight easy lessons you will have your own website up and running – without needing to know any geeky computer code! And, in the remaining 12 lessons, you’ll learn all you need to know about creating a website and making it into your own, unique, web presence.

This book teaches you:

• How to register your own domain and get the right WordPress Hosting.
• How to install WordPress with a few clicks of mouse.
• How to design a professional looking website.
• How to add and format your content.
• How to use graphics and images.
• All about themes, plugins, widgets and other WordPress tools.
• …. and lots more.

Whether you want to create a simple WordPress blog or design a full-blown ecommerce site, Sarah’s ‘WordPress To Go’ will start you off on the right foot.
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The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software. The force behind WordPress.com is a convention-defying company called Automattic, Inc., whose 120 employees work from anywhere in the world they wish, barely use email, and launch improvements to their products dozens of times a day.

With a fraction of the resources of Google, Amazon, or Facebook, they have a similar impact on the future of the Internet. How is this possible? What’s different about how they work, and what can other companies learn from their methods?

To find out, former Microsoft veteran Scott Berkun worked as a manager at WordPress.com, leading a team of young programmers developing new ideas. The Year Without Pants shares the secrets of WordPress.com’s phenomenal success from the inside.

Berkun’s story reveals insights on creativity, productivity, and leadership from the kind of workplace that might be in everyone’s future.

• Offers a fast-paced and entertaining insider’s account of how an amazing, powerful organization achieves impressive results
• Includes vital lessons about work culture and managing creativity
• Written by author and popular blogger Scott Berkun (scottberkun.com)

The Year Without Pants shares what every organization can learn from the world-changing ideas for the future of work at the heart of Automatic’s success.

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WordPress for Beginners: A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Creating your Own WordPress Site in Record Time, Starting from Zero!

Do you want to build a website but scared it’s too difficult?

Updated to cover WordPress 3.8.x and the new Quick Install method of installing WordPress Building a website was once the domain of computer geeks. Not anymore. WordPress makes it possible for anyone to create and run a professional looking website.

While WordPress is an amazing tool, the truth is it does have a steep learning curve, even if you have built websites before. Therefore, the goal of this book is to take anyone, even a complete beginner and get them building a professional looking website. I’ll hold your hand, step-by-step, all the way.

The book contains lot and lot of screenshots. With so many screenshots, you may be worried that the text might be a little on the skimpy side. No need to worry there. I have described in the minutes detail, every step on your journey to a great looking website. In all, this book has over 35,000 words.

This book will cut your learning curve associated with WordPress.

Every chapter of the book ends with a “Tasks to Complete” section. By completing these tasks, you’ll not only become proficient at using WordPress, you’ll become confident & enjoy using WordPress.

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WordPress: The Missing Manual

Whether you’re a budding blogger or web development professional, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites – if you know how to tap its impressive features.

This jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress and its themes, plug-ins, and widgets to build just about any website you can imagine, from a classy blog to a basic e-commerce site.

The Important stuff you need to know:

• Create a Blog
• Build a Website
• Add Features
• Mix in Multimedia
• Involve your readers
• Build an audience
• Create a Community

This book will help you with everything you need to know about WordPress. It has it all. A GREAT find for anyone’s reference library or if you want to learn WordPress.

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WordPress Revealed: How to build a Website, Get Visitors and Make Money (Even For Beginners) (Volume 1)

In this incredibly in-depth guide to WordPress, Matt Wolfe gives an amazing amount of details on pretty much everything you need to know to get started with WordPress. From all of the basics of getting a site online to advanced strategies of traffic generation and monetization.

With WordPress Revealed, you will learn:

• How to get your first website online within 10 minutes
• How to customize the look and feel of the site
• How to add plugins EVERY site must have
• How to make sure you never run out of ideas for content on your site
• What the most effective blog posts are to generate buzz
• How to generate loads of traffic to any website
• Monetization strategies to make money with your site
• Plus many more tips and tricks to make your website as beautiful and effective as possible

It also includes many expert interviews. Do miss the guide that anyone aspiring to build a business online. It will be your one stop resource for everything WordPress.
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WordPress Domination – Beginner to NINJA in 7 Days: In Just Seven Days, You Can Go From WordPress Zero To WordPress Hero

Discover How You can Ninja Your Way to Complete WordPress Dominance In As Little As Seven Days. There is no way to get rich quick on the internet but if you want to build an empire of website that will create residual income and massive profit potential, you need to be using WordPress.

In 7 days guide to dominating WordPress, It leave no stone unturned and no topic untouched. You’ll go from installing WordPress to adding content, to generating traffic, all the way to making money by time to get your first WordPress site up and running in your spare time.

For one low investment, you could take the first steps to complete WordPress domination – and build your very first money making website!
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Complete WordPress (Teach Yourself VISUALLY)

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Complete WordPress takes you beyond the blogging basics with expanded tips, tricks and techniques with clear, step-by-step instructions accompanied by screen shots.

This visual book shows you how to incorporate forums, use RSS, obtain and review analytics, work with tools like Google Adsense and much more.

This book teaches you:

• How to use mobile tools to edit and update blogs, implement SEO, and incorporate blogs into other services such as Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter and vice versa.
• Shares insight on the best practices for maximizing WordPress.com and WordPress.org, customizing templates and creating written and visual content.
• Offers advice for working with a verity of other tools and sites to get maximum results for your blog.

Beef up your blog completely with Teach Yourself VISUALLY complete WordPress.
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How to Make a Website or Blog: with WordPress, WITHOUT Coding, on your own domain, all in under 2 hours!

Learn how to make a professional website or blog on your own domain in less than a couple of hours, and learn how to do it all using the Internet’s most popular Content Management System: WordPress.
No coding knowledge is required to use WordPress…if you can use Microsoft Word, you can make a professional website with WordPress.
It is all taught in step-by-step lessons in this book (with links to supporting video lessons for extra clarity – the video lessons show you the entire completion of mikeomarwebsites.com from beginning to end).

With the lessons taught in my book, you will be able to create any type of website that you want with any kind of look that you want, from personal blogs to professional business websites to e-commerce websites.

This book will enable you to build a professional website on your own domain in less than a couple of hours AND teach you a skill set that will blow open your possibilities for entrepreneurship!
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WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Bloggers love WordPress! If you’re ready to start using this free blogging software, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition is just what you and your blog need to make a splash.

Professional blog designer Lisa Sabin-Wilson shows you how to use all the latest upgrades to WordPress and helps you decide whether to use the WordPress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org. Whether you’re just venturing into the blogosphere or you want to shift an existing blog to WordPress, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help.

Explore theme development and learn where to find free WordPress themes Extend WordPress through plug-ins, CSS, custom fields, and more:

• Find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam.
• Get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more.
• Create a unique blog theme and presentation by using template tags with CSS Sign up for WordPress.com, log in, set options, and create a profile.
• Install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll.
• Discover the secrets of creating a blog that draws readers Get tips on wonderful widgets, upgrades, and plugins you can add to make your blog extra cool.
• Learn how to use the Dashboard, manage comments, and make permalinks work with your Web server.

With WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition on hand, it’s easy to make the most of the free software and build a blog that stands out in a crowd.

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WordPress For Beginners: Build, Optimize And Design A WordPress Website Or Blog From Scratch, In 3 Easy Steps!

WordPress For Beginners is a newbie guide that lays out in complete detail the exact steps needed to build a full-fledged website (using wordpress.org). We will start building a website from scratch and then add layer upon layer of WordPress goodness.

This book won’t just talk theory but also use 50+ screenshots and a demo website to point to live examples. And no need to worry about coding either! Even if you haven’t so much as sniffed at a line of code nor have a pressing desire to do so now – this book is especially for you.

The book has been divided into three ‘steps’ to break down the website creation process into ‘byte’ sized chunks:

• The Essentials
• The Optimization
• The Design

By the end of this step your WordPress Website will be totally set for prime time.
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