Dear sitepoint friends,
Please Suggest me some best books to learn wordpress and php. i’m very good at programming in fact i’m a c,c++ and java teacher . i’ve basics of php and want to learn more and i dont know anything about wordpress wantto learn them as quick as possible. please help; me
There are some good SitePoint books, and Digging into WordPress by Chris Coyier. But the WP site has an excellent “codex”, which is very comprehensive and a good (free) option too.
thanks for your suggestion ralph… please suggest me some php books too i’m going to start freelance designs on my site.which one would be best to use to build my site & most other web developers use which software?
Try
http://foundationphp.com/phpsolutions/
Beginning PHP 5.3 by Matt Doyle
PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice by Matt Zandstra
PHP Master by Lorna Mitchell, Davey Shafik & Matthew Turland
Thanks my dear friends
No matter how many books you use for wordpress, best way to get your self familiarized with wordpress, learn wordpress, and to know latest wordpress standards is to get informed on wordpress codex website. Its closest thing that can get you into wordpress.
I just read sitepoint’s “Wordpress Anthology” book, and would recommend it. http://www.sitepoint.com/books/wpant1/
It’s very clear and concise and explains the various aspects of wordpress quite well. Note, however, it’s written for a beginning wordpress developer, rather than an end user guide of wordpress.