Wordpress: Pushing The Limits

Take WordPress beyond its comfort zone As the most popular open source blogging tool, WordPress is being used to power increasingly advanced sites, pushing it beyond its original purpose. Whether you’re a freelance WordPress developer who’d like to cut out the middle man, a staff developer thinking about striking out on your own, or a WordPress entrepreneur looking for tips on how to attract more clients and expand your business, this book is for you. Author Rachel McCollin shares what she’s learned as a head of her own agency about pushing WordPress to the limit – and beyond – to stay competitive and grow a successful WordPress-driven business. Writing from both the technology and business perspectives, McCollin explains that there’s often more than one solution to a WordPress challenge, and she shows you how to choose the best one for you, your client, and your team. With the help of many real-life examples, she shows you how to: • Work effectively with clients • Manage project teams • Establish robust, secure development and hosting environments for you and your clients • Work with custom themes, theme frameworks, and plugins to meet client needs • Scale up and use WordPress for larger projects • Give your clients the customized sites they want • Use template files, functions, and styling to create sites with complex designs and layouts • Make a WordPress site soar with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS Don’t learn the hard way. Read WordPress: Pushing the Limits and get the inside track from somebody who’s been there, done that, and found success in her own WordPress-based agency Visit www.wiley.com/go/ptl/wordpress to download code files