{"id":10877,"date":"2007-10-31T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T07:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/wordpress-for-dummies\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T07:20:33","slug":"wordpress-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/wordpress-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Matt links to the announcement<\/a> about “WordPress for Dummies<\/a>” book coming out.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a while since I read any “for Dummies” books myself – they are usually written for beginners, a stage which I don’t stay at for long enough to buy and read a book.\u00c2\u00a0 But I feel like “WordPress for Dummies” book could use some publicity.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a lot of people without technical background using WordPress and trying to figure things out.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that a book like that could save them a lot of time and effort, as well as show a few things they might not have thought about.<\/p>\n

It’s not the only book about WordPress out there, but it’s not in the crowd by any means.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are the Amazon search results for “wordpress”<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Matt links to the announcement about “WordPress for Dummies” book coming out.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a while since I read any “for Dummies” books myself – they are usually written for beginners, a stage which I don’t stay at for long enough to buy and read a book.\u00c2\u00a0 But I feel like “WordPress for Dummies” book … Continue reading WordPress for Dummies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2294,60],"tags":[29,105],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-books","category-wordpress","tag-blogging","tag-cms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28394,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/19\/composer-local-packages-for-dummies\/","url_meta":{"origin":10877,"position":0},"title":"Composer Local Packages for Dummies","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Composer (in combination with Packagist) is one technology that has significantly changed the ecosystem of the PHP programming language.\u00a0 Anybody working with PHP in this day and age MUST know how to use composer.\u00a0 However, not everyone does.\u00a0 So here is a nice tutorial on how to get started with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/composer.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16260,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/01\/discovery-channel-crashes-a-boeing-727-for-science-documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10877,"position":1},"title":"Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot reports: A Boeing 727 passenger jet has been deliberately crash-landed. 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