Books by Rachel McCollin

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WordPress: Pushing the Limits

by Rachel McCollin
333 pages - - 26.1 MB New!

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. In this unique book, the authors share their experiences and advice for working effectively with clients, manage a project team, develop with WordPress for larger projects, and push WordPress beyond its limits so that clients have the customized site they need in order to succeed in a competitive marketplace. Explains that there is more than one approach to a WordPress challenge and shows you how to choose the one that is best for you, your client, and your team Walks you through hosting and developing environments, theme building, and contingency planning Addresses working with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS WordPress: Pushing the Limits encourages you to benefit from the experiences of seasoned WordPress programmers so that your client’s site can succeed.

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WordPress Theme Development, 3rd Edition

by Rachel McCollin
333 pages - - 18 MB New!

If you’ve been using WordPress to build websites for yourself or clients, you’ve probably reached a point where you need to build your own theme. Being able to build your own themes means you can build beautiful, bespoke websites using WordPress and means you’re not limited to the themes you can download.

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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints, Second Edition

by Rachel McCollin
333 pages - - 27.91 MB New!

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) and you can use it to create any kind of site you or your clients need. Using free plugins and themes for WordPress, you can create a store, a social media site, a review site, a video site, a network of sites or a community site, and more. WordPress makes your job of creating your own website simple and hassle-free!

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WordPress Theme Development Beginner’s Guide

by Tessa Blakeley Silver, Rachel McCollin
333 pages - - 10 MB New!

The “WordPress Theme Development Beginner’s Guide, 3rd Edition” is an educational book that reveals how to create a WordPress theme design using HTML5 and CSS3. Tessa Blakeley Silver and Rachel McCollin are the authors of this great book. Tessa’s background is in print design and illustration. She evolved over the years into web and multi-media development, where she focuses on usability and interface design. In this book, the authors will guide the readers through the process of building their first themes. They will guide you step by step how to write the HTML and CSS for the theme, and then convert that code into PHP for the use in WordPress.