This practical, hands-on book takes you from the basics of WordPress to how to modify important WordPress elements such as the sidebar. I have learned more from this book than I have from a year of culling through the online WordPress documentation.
Rating: 5 / 5

For $35, I expected something with far more detail and information. I’m a beginner to WordPress, but I program in other languages. The book gave a bit of an overview, but in the end, I got what I really needed on the help pages.
Rating: 3 / 5

Hello,

i run several projects on the web.

Allthough i am not a programmer i always have to look about the

trends in programming and what is possible to reach and what is not.

Haydins book even let me make helpful changes in wordpress. Its a great guideline.

Higly recommended

Thank you for that. Jochen
Rating: 5 / 5

The two books :

WordPress Complete by Hasin Hayder

and

WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

are worthwhile sources for the individual that lacks the expertise to setup the WordPress program. Now don’t misunderstand what I say next. If you are a complete novice, get the books. Be fully aware that both books will NOT be sufficient to reach normal insanity while getting WordPress setup, if you’re requirements go beyond the norm. Am familiar to Blogging and a bit aware of WordPress usage, but it became a total nightmare to reach the results that I was looking for. Seriously lacking are examples of “how and where” to actually insert / place what was being expounded upon. Seemed that every set of “how to” was chopped off at the most critical point and leaves one floundering and frustrated, Both books and even the official sites lack the explicit “where to insert” the talked on code. Many so called experts suffer from the “I know it so well” syndrome” that they overlook the “critical” aspect from a novices point of view. To have elaborated on a specific subject, without giving the most crucial bit of information “showing an example of where” is, to me a cardinal offense. It is recognized that it is near impossible to cover every detail required for total success with an installation, but what is covered, SHOULD be presented with clear and full details. There is no middle ground here. You are either sailing along smoothly, or you are floundering from lack of crucial details. I was in the latter group. WordPress by the way is a neat program, and for most users, will be relatively easy to master. If you have certain specific needs, be prepared to sweat it through, along with much aggravation.
Rating: 3 / 5

WordPress Complete book is full of promise but doesn’t quite live up to my expectations.

Still, it’s not bad.This book helped me to install and configure all the tools needed to get a development WordPress site running at home.

This book really does a fine job of explaining what the out of the box tools can do and how the plug-in modules can further improve your online blog. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in building an online blog since WordPress and all the tools required are open source (free) and in many ways better than the costly competition.

My only criticism is that the author doesn’t explain how the plug-in actually works. he just provide the plug-in and doesn’t explain the logic of code. For example most of the plug-in that he introduce begin with add_filter() function but he doesn’t tell what add_filter() does and how the plug-in integrate into your WordPress system. However the online community was a tremendous help when I ran into a problem.
Rating: 3 / 5