The free, set-up and user documentation is very well presented and thorough; however, some blog owners and developers appreciate additional teaching perspectives.

Stephanie Leary has been working with WordPress since 2004 and this is her easy-to-use guide to WordPress Templates and Themes implementation. An excellent resource for all user levels.

This book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems.

WordPress is colorful and flexible, and includes a variety of themes, templates, and plug-ins for you to explore and use. Beginning WordPress 3 aims to address these for the beginner who wants to start using and developing with WordPress.

This book is one of the first on the latest WordPress 3.0 engine. With this book, you’ll learn about blogging, developing a blog, creating newsletters/papers, and managing/publishing this popular CMS. The author, Stephanie Leary, brings you her expertise as a professional trainer and educator who has used WordPress extensively in education and more.

We also recommend Hasin Hayder and April Hodge Silver's WordPress 2.7 It's an easy-to-use guide to WordPress Templates and Themes implementation. An excellent resource for all user levels.

Here's what the Editorial Review Staff has said:

"WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites.

Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information."