Don’t buy a wordpress book
I want to recommend to young bloggers not to buy a wordpress how-to book. It’s a waste of money. I bought a wordpress book and a movable type book back in July of 2007 and the only timed i thumbed through it was at Borders. It’s much easier to learn wordpress by doing, and by searching on the internet for questions you may have. The wordpress support forum is good but sometimes the answers aren’t there. You just need to learn how to search for your answers. It might take 10 mins to find the answer. The book is too general anyway. If you can’t find the answer on the World Wide Web, you certain won’t find the answer in a 300 page book. I wished i still had my $60.99. I could start 6 more blogs with that money. Or i could get some more stocking stuffer for Christmas.
If you’ve already bought a how to book,(its ok rookie mistake-i did the same thing) go to half dot com Click here
and sell it. At least get half of your money back. Don’t leave it on your shelf to collect dust. Honestly, you’re not going to read it.
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December 2nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more! The VQS series of books are mostly to generalized for anyone with even the smallest amount of knowledge. Not only that there’s usually a good selection of error or misprint to help trip the newbie up.
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Noob, you are KILLING ME! I just bought the WordPress for Dummies book and am about 50% done with it.
I have learned a few things, but as you said, it is nothing I couldn’t get by just “doing!”
I’m going to finish it anyway because I am stubborn.
AL
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Hey Noob,
I didn’t even know you could get a real book on this. lol. I would recommend getting the free ebook Profitable Blogging for Newbies. It will walk you through step by step setting up a money making wordpress blog. It’s one of the best wordpress ebooks I’ve read.
http://www.web20wealth.com/profblogging.html
(not an affiliate link, just the book)
Jackie Lee
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 am
colinking- yeah this book was useless. i bought it cause i thought it would give me a basic understanding of WP. Well i figured out that WP is pretty basic. The book only states the obvious.
allynpaul-already 50%. you’re a fast reader!!! I can’t speak about the dummies book cause i haven’t even looked thru it, but the info can be found free on the net.
jackie lee- thanks for the link. i hate ebooks but free ebooks i can accept. Johnchow free ebook is really handy to.
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
There are even AOL Books For Dummies, so I wouldn’t find this too surprising
WordPress is the easiest blog system I’ve yet to use and yet it’s extremely flexible. Better to just ask their WP community when you hit a snag with something.
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September 16th, 2009 at 8:48 am
already bought it…….
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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