Contents at a Glance
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading WordPress
Chapter 3: Dashboard and Settings
Chapter 4: Working with Content
Chapter 5: Working with Themes
Chapter 6: Working with Plugins
Chapter 7: Working with Users
Chapter 8: Setting Up Multisite Networks
Chapter 9: Performance and Security
Chapter 10: Importing Content and Migrating Sites
Chapter 11: Beginning Theme and Plugin Development
Chapter 12: Creating a Theme
Chapter 13: Creating Plugins
Chapter 14: Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Fields
Appendix A: Recommended Plugins
Appendix B: Community Resources
Why WordPress?
WordPress is one of many content management systems that allow you to update your site through a simple Web
interface instead of editing and uploading HTML files to a server. Most other systems emphasize either blog posts or
web pages. WordPress is best known as a blogging system, but in fact it treats posts and pages equally. It is therefore
ideal for dense reference sites that also have a news section, or news-oriented sites that have a few informational
pages. It is a flexible system that can be used to create sites for businesses, project collaborations, university
departments, artist portfolios, and (of course!) personal or group blogs .