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If you are a small business owner or a hopeful Internet entrepreneur, then you know you need a professional website.

The first challenge is, how do you build that website without needing to learn how to do computer programming or having to sell your first-born to get a website built for you?

The second challenge is, how do you get a professionally-designed and beautiful website built that won't cost you mega-bucks per month to maintain?

Because let's face it, it is hard to justify the high costs of building an elaborate website, when you are not yet sure a website will be a good investment of your time and money.

The good news is that there is a better - and much less expensive - way to get a beautiful website made, with just a few clicks of your mouse.

WordPress started in 2003, with the goal of providing ordinary people a simple way to build a website for free. Today, WordPress is being used on millions of websites, including those of many Fortune 500 companies.

The beautiful thing about WordPress as a website content management system is that it is a fully-customizable experience, and it is very easy to use.

WordPress Themes define how a website will look - they cover website layout, color schemes, font colors, and page display elements. With over 2,000 Themes currently available, it is very easy to change the appearance of a website. With just the click of a mouse button you can change the look, feel and layout of your entire website without affecting the content. What used to take days to get looking right, now takes only minutes.

WordPress Plugins add functionality to a website - what you want the website to do for you or your visitors. With over 43,000 Plugins available, you will find that you can make your website do a lot of specialized tasks for you or your visitors. And with the power of plugins, you can add functionality to your website - track users and what they do, take online orders, manage content in new and unique ways - and more. Again, all with the click of a mouse button.

Now a #1 Amazon Best Seller, this popular, up-to-date, step-by-step guide by expert Sarah McHarry will walk you through the essential first steps to building your own website or blog using WordPress.

What you'll learn in this book:

How to register your own domain and get the right WordPress hostingHow to install WordPress with a few clicks of the mouseHow to create a professional-looking, commerce-ready website with very little effortHow to add and format your contentHow to use graphics and imagesAll about themes, plugins, widgets and other WordPress tools...and lots more...

Sarah shows you how to create a world-class website, quickly, easily and inexpensively, even if you have absolutely no current knowledge of how to build a website.

WordPress is so easy to use, and "WordPress To Go" will take what is already easy and make it even more simple - simple enough a monkey could do it! You'll know all the "gotchas" before setting up a WordPress site, discover how to make it content rich, and even how to attract the search engines! You'll gain traffic, exposure, and ultimately more business.

Get your copy of "WordPress To Go" now, and you’ll be a thriving WordPress webmaster in no time at all!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 4.7.2013 edition (May 7, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1481130501
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1481130509
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.35 x 9 inches
Reviewer: A. E. Schwarcz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Probably the best tutorial I have ever read
Review: I am a pretty effective SEO specialist but not an expert to actually build a website from scratch - something that some of my clients would be interested in. So I looked into different programs (Dreamweaver being one of them) and found that WordPress is the ideal platform. However, there are almost no good courses on WP out there, and just a few decent books, most of them either convoluted, unnecessarily technical, and / or very expensive. But then I was lucky to find "Wordpress to Go" - and was hooked.It's no exaggeration but I can say with total conviction (and no, I'm not getting any rewards for this) that Sarah's book is the best tutorial I have ever read - probably on any subject, and certainly on a technical one, bar none. The main upside of this book is the totally practical approach the author takes (I guess only women can be that practical!): clear, very easy to understand, and virtually holding the reader's hand as she goes through all the important WP modules and menus step by step, and extremely clearly. Sarah is a programmer and as such a professional but she has a very readable and personal style, almost as she was sitting across the table. Oh, and BTW, all the info is up-to-date, not some rehashed, obsolete stuff.Hosting (Sarah maybe receives a commission from Hostgator but so what? Hostgator is really the best), Setup, Installation, all are explained very well. The entire WP structure, and all its critical functions, are totally easy to read and understand - and to apply, too, because practical examples and useful screenshots are there to help. WP has a lot of widgets and plugins, and the author gives all pros and cons, and gives plenty of good advice. It's fair to say that unless a user is severely untalented, he / she will be able to apply Sarah's book to build decent WP websites within a few days, often even faster.This is a relatively short e-book (only 80 pages or so), and Kindle pages are not big, so something had to give, such as extensive MySQL and php guidance which is lacking, along with a few other, though non-critical pieces. But the author is practical (a woman, remember?), and has managed to superbly balance vital knowledge with bottom line applicability, and pack into this great book almost as much information as books 10 times the length, one tenth of clarity, and 20 times the price.Bottom line: this book is worth a lot; and at under $ 5 this is the steal of the year.

Reviewer: Erik Saves
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Outstanding step-by-step book for WordPress newbies -- but lacking an index makes it difficult to use
Review: This book was an excellent resource for me. I wanted to pull my old website for my consulting business from Yahoo/Aabaco's terrible hosting service and move to a new provider -- and modernize my website in the process. WordPress seemed the way to go, and this book gave me the roadmap to getting the new site up and going quickly.Why only four stars? This book lacks something very, very basic: an index! It's extremely difficult to find topics in it other than by reading the book A to Z. For example, in my new site I wanted to disable commenting on all pages. I knew there were steps on how to do that in the book... somewhere. I should have been able to go to the index and look up "commenting." Alternatively, if a PDF of the book came with purchase, I could just CTRL+F my way through finding what I need.I'd seriously spend another ~$10 on the next edition of this book if it came with an index or PDF -- the info is THAT good, it's just hard to find...

Reviewer: Brian R. Hitchcock
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Reading this book got my site online quickly with very little drama.
Review: I had never worked with WordPress before, so when I was told I had to setup a website of my own for blogging and posting my writing projects, I knew I needed help to get started. There are many books available, but I chose this one because it said it was specifically for the complete beginner. I may well need more detailed information in future, but to start out, I wanted the very basic information, presented in a logical order. I did get my website setup and online using this book.Starting with getting your domain and installing WordPress, the instructions are clear and easy to follow. Note that I decided to setup a hosted website on GoDaddy. Different website hosting providers require different steps to install WordPress, but I was able to get through the installation, and it worked the first time, using the instructions in this book. The chapters cover all the basic tasks in great detail, which is what I needed. I learned how to login to my website to perform administrative chores and basic issues when designing a website. Because I had never used WordPress, I didn't know how to create a page for my website or create a blog post, and these tasks were covered, in detail.I needed to upload images for my blog posts and I was able to do this without problems. I didn't know what a static page was, but I learned how to set it up so that my website always shows the same home page. At the time, I was using one of the free WordPress themes just to setup my site, but I was looking for help to choose a theme. The chapter on how to choose and install a theme helped me decide what I was after as I looked at the many themes available. Once I had settled on a theme, I was able to switch my website to use the new theme.Learning to use WordPress requires learning about many things, and I was lost when it came to plugins. I followed the recommendations as to what plugins to install and it all worked for me on the first go. At this point I had my website online and I was adding blog posts and images. The last chapters provided an introduction to search engine optimization, how HTML works and how to expand your WordPress skills further.This book covers the basics of setting up a new WordPress website and assumes no prior experience. It was exactly what I needed at the time. Reading this book got my site online quickly with very little drama. Given that I didn't have any previous experience with WordPress, and how quickly I was able to get my new site online, this book provided exactly what it promised. You can see the results at brianhitchcock.net and brianrhitchcock.com.

Reviewer: G D Thakur
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I find this book best ever referred so far.This has cleared almost all of my doubts in first reading, Thanks

Reviewer: Cliente de Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Muy recomendable para iniciar en el tema, pero hay que actualizarse e investigar más en otras fuentes o libros más recientes

Reviewer: Lesley Thornton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Fantastic read - just get it and read it - better than good.

Reviewer: stesitmonchai
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Si vous lisez l'anglais et êtes débutant WordPress, cet ouvrage est pour vous. Il est utile de suivre le bouquin en utilisant le thème gratuit évoqué dans le bouquin pour faciliter la compréhension (le thème wordpress de base n'étant plus le même aujourd'hui). Vous aurez à la fin de votre lecture une bonne connaissance de l'outil WordPress, ce qui vous donnera la possibilité d'obtenir un beau site très rapidement en téléchargement un thème à votre goût.

Reviewer: Rivière -a-Pierre,qc
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is well written and gives just the critical info needed by a beginner. My only regret is that I finished reading the book. Lots of illustrations, I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to launch their first WP website.