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PHP book for tweaking WordPress to make it better, faster, and secure
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-17

There’s a great new book available for WordPress bloggers who want to make a smarter, better, faster blog. The WordPress 2.7 Cookbook, written by Jean-Baptiste Jung, is now available from Packt. The cookbook is fully tested with WordPress 2.7 and contains 100 recipes for enhancing your WordPress blog, so you can attract more readers and more comments.

The book addresses basic concepts, such as improving the blog’s layout and using themes, and moves to more complex topics such as using widgets and plug-ins, and incorporating ads in their RSS feeds. You’ll also learn how to integrate with sites such as Twitter, FeedBurner, Digg, and Del.icio.us. Or you can learn how to transform a classic theme into a captivating Photoblog or a personal blog into a complete, multi-author online magazine.

WordPress is an open source project and one of the largest self-hosted blogging tools in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. About 120,000 blogs are created daily. WordPress’ versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users and contributors. Order WordPress 2.7 Cookbook today from packtpub.com.

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