WordPress 2.7 Cookbook + Free E-Books!
Packt Publishing recently sent me a review copy of “WordPress 2.7 Cookbook.” I’m a huge fan of the cookbook line; they’re similar to a huge string of quick tips. So if you don’t have time to read for an hour straight, you can always pick up a web dev cookbook and learn a few neat techniques within minutes.
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook is no different, and though it’s more of a quick reference book, rather than one that you would traditionally read front-to-back, I still found myself devouring the pages within a day or so.
“With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You’ll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.”
Useful Tips I Picked Up
- Displaying a custom login form in your blog’s sidebar
- Using the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress
- Creating an iPhone friendly version of your blog.
- Save time by using Worpress shortcodes
- Testing your blog’s security
Ultimately, books like this one deliver exactly what you’d expect. In need of front-to-back WordPress reference? This won’t do. However, if you think you’d enjoy reading over a 100 useful tips and “recipes,” I’d pick it up!
Free E-Books
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I never won but I didn’t stop trying ;)
Why not, it will be interesting ! :)
Keep going on !
Woot! Net tuts rocks! my favorite web dev book, without a doubt…
Transcending CSS – Andy Clarke
http://www.transcendingcss.com/
This book definetly helped me a lot when I was a newbiee ;)
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/dp/0789723107
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-DevExpress-ASP-NET-Controls-Programmer/dp/0470500832/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1260295464&sr=8-1-spell
Wow i loved it…
My first web design book, that very basic n really like that book is “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” by JASON BEAIRD
http://www.principlesofbeautifulwebdesign.com/
Cant wait to hit up my library. unfortunately, until i started pestering them all they carried were books on how to use dreamweaver 4 and how table based layouts are the professional method of presentation.
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/csswrong1/
i really liked this one
I will love to have one, please send me
My favorite book is – Learning Jquery http://www.packtpub.com/learning-jquery-1.3/book
My favorite book is Learning Jquery – http://www.packtpub.com/learning-jquery-1.3/book
:)
I love “Learning jQuery 1.3″: http://www.packtpub.com/learning-jquery-1.3/book/mid/1802090m1d2r
http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-for-business-bloggers/book
Its actually the only web development ebook I have, since I can’t afford any.. :(
I got this in some web competiton.
My favorite Development book: http://rockablepress.com/books/rockstar-wordpress-designer/
one of the best css book http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Mastery-Advanced-Standards-Solutions/dp/1430223979/ref=pd_sim_b_6
My favorite book: Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
http://www.sensible.com/
It’s a good book, I want to use it to improve my wordpress ability.
http://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique/Livre/bien-developper-pour-le-web-2-0-9782212120288
In french …
It has to be WordPress Complete: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using WordPress
http://www.amazon.com/WordPress-Complete-comprehensive-step-step/dp/1904811892
My favourite book is CSS Mastery by Andy Budd ^^
Here is one of my Favorite dev books – http://rockablepress.com/books/rockstar-wordpress-designer/
Also -http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssdesign1/
Here is my choice:
http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-template-design-2nd-edition/book
This is one of my favorite books, its has broaden my outlook towards design.
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/sexy1/
Keep up the good work.
I dig Rockstar WordPress Designer by Collis, taught me a lot!
And my favourite web development book is:
Transcending CSS
http://www.transcendingcss.com/
Good luck to everyone!
http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-2-7-cookbook
Awesome post, thanks for sharing, my fave book is also css mastery, andy budd ace book.
Great post dude, my fav book is:
Web Standards Creativity
http://webstandardscreativity.com
Good luck to all.
The Zen of CSS Design taught me quite a bit from the beginning, I still pick it up to this day and thumb threw it.
This is really good. :)
http://www.amazon.de/Learning-Jquery-Interaction-Development-JavaScript/dp/1847192505/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1260126717&sr=8-2
Gotta be http://rockablepress.com/books/rockstar-wordpress-designer/
the bascis
http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Mastery-Advanced-Standards-Solutions/dp/1430223979/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260137442&sr=8-1
wow, theres so many books to learn out there… thanks for the recipes, very helpful for me…
“Don’t make me think” is one of my favorites :)
Yes “Don’t make me think” :)
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Database-Applications-PHP-MySQL/dp/0596000413 Is certainly one of my favourites and helped me to learn a lot!
I found your screencasts on Codeigniter very useful and also tutplus has great resources on design & development as I’ve searched through over the WWW. I am also expecting the same for wordpress too, that’s why I’m on this page today….
sorry, but I forgot to mention my facourite books on PHP:
By David Powers
http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Object-Oriented-Solutions-David-Powers/dp/1430210117/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299155476&sr=1-1
and Professional Codeigniter
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-CodeIgniter-Wrox-Guides/dp/0470282452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1299155730&sr=1-1
Do want.