• Customize your theme and add plugins
• Insert images, audio, and video into your posts
• Use WordPress as a content manager

Your introduction to the essentials of WordPress

Get ready to wield the awesome power of WordPress—the web content-building tool used by individuals, organizations, and corporations worldwide to get their messaging out attractively and professionally. With coverage of themes, plugins, multimedia , and establishing a professional publishing routine, this must-have guide shows you the most effective ways to put your content out there alongside the 75+ million WordPress sites already in existence—and make it stand out persuasively from the crowd!

Inside...

• Customize a theme
• Create your first post
• Use the content management system
• Work with multimedia formats
• Add plugins to your site
• Build a publishing schedule
• Become proficient in using the Dashboard
• Host multiple sites

Get to know WordPress with this simple and approachable reference

WordPress For Dummies, 9th Edition helps readers discover the power of the WordPress web content building tool. Web builders have created 75 million websites using WordPress and this book will show you how to add your blogs and websites to that count.

WordPress For Dummies, 9th Edition drops you right into the fast lane to publishing your first website or blog by teaching you to:

· Customize a theme

· Create your first post

· Use WordPress as a content management system

· Work with multimedia formats

· Add plugins to your site

· Establish a publishing routine

Perfect for new bloggers, experienced bloggers converting to WordPress for the first time, and people accustomed to WordPress who want to learn more about the full potential of the technology, WordPress for Dummies, 9th Edition is an indispensable addition to the library of every blogger and webmaster.