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400 Pages of Practical Information
There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. From your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through maintaining a site throughout the years, this book is packed with truly practical information.

Beautiful Custom Design
Design-wise, Digging into WordPress is a beautiful book: every page of the book is printed with stunning digital-color precision on gloss-finish paper, with each of its eight chapters color-coded to provide quick and easy navigation. With its large, clear typography, each page is easy on the eyes and easy to read.

Things You Will Learn

# How to get things set up right.
# Building themes and how they work.
# The right way to create multiple loops.
# Keeping sites secure and optimized.
# Using WordPress as a CMS.
# Integrate things like Twitter and Delicious.
# Customizing & optimizing the WordPress Comments Area.
# Best practices for maintaining a healthy site.
# Making the most out of WordPress.
# Plus tons more!

Lots of Code Samples
We go into depth about the anatomy of a WordPress theme. How they work, and how to write the code you need to do the things you want. This means real code that you can sink your teeth into, as well as copy and paste. Beyond theme building, we introduce many tricks your functions.php file can pull off and show you ways to increase performance and security through HTAccess.
Demo chapter of this book

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Authors
Written by WordPress veterans Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr , Digging into WordPress is 400+ jam-packed pages of everything you need to get the most out of WordPress. WordPress is great right out of the box, but unless you want an ordinary vanilla blog, it is essential to understand the full potential of WordPress and have the right tools to get the job done.