Learning resources

WordPress Explained

Master WordPress hands-on, through a complete case study, crystal-clear visuals, simple explanations, and on-target analogies. This book walks you through installing WordPress, planning sites that are easy to use and manage, adding content, and incorporating powerful site features without programming.

Building Web Apps with WordPress

With basic PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experience you can use WordPress to develop fast, scalable, secure, and highly customized web apps, mobile apps and web services. You’ll learn how to build custom plugins, themes, and services for just about any kind of web or mobile application.

Professional WordPress Design and Development

The only WordPress book targeted to developers, with advanced content that exploits the full functionality of the most popular CMS in the world. You will gain insight into real projects that currently use WordPress as an application framework, as well as the basic usage and functionality of the system from a developer's perspective.

Professional WordPress Plugin Development

This book covers the building of advanced plugin development scenarios. It discusses the plugin framework and coding standards as well as dashboards, settings, menus, and related application programming interfaces (APIs). Additional topics include security, performance, data validation, and SQL statements.

Learn PHP in One Day and Learn It Well

This book covers all the major topics in PHP and is written in a concise and to the point manner. You'll be guided through a project at the end of the book where you get to apply the concepts learned and see how it all ties together.

WordPress All-in-One For Dummies

Take your WordPress experience to the next level. From the basics of setting up your account, to choosing a host and theme, to managing content with editor Gutenberg, to keeping your site secure, these 8 books of expert information will help you take the WordPress community by storm.

WordPress To Go

Learn how to build a WordPress website on your own domain, from scratch, even if you are a complete beginner. This step-by-step guide by expert Sarah McHarry will walk you through the essential first steps to building your own website or blog using WordPress.

Python Programming for Beginners

The ultimate guide for beginners to learn Python programming. The purpose of this book is to make your understanding of Python clearer by explaining technical terms in layman’s language with the help of code snippets and practical examples.

Learning Python

Get a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the core Python language with this hands-on book. This book will help you quickly write efficient, high-quality code with Python. It’s an ideal way to begin, whether you’re new to programming or a professional developer versed in other languages.

Python Crash Course

The world's best-selling guide to the Python programming language. This fast-paced, thorough introduction to programming with Python will have you writing programs, solving problems, and making things that work in no time.