Master the expert skills needed to create better blogs

Master the new update
- Get to grips with the newest version of WordPress, including the 4.4 update

20 best WordPress themes
- Tour the best themes available right now to help you make your selection

Pro guide to plugins
- Take your site to the next level with plugins and add-ons recommended by the experts

Practise with projects
- Try your hand at a selection of customisation projects to build on pre-built themes

Also inside...
Getting started
- The Settings
- Use widgets in WordPress
- Get to grips with plugins
- Manage WordPress Comments
- Posting WordPress content
- Mastering the Media Library
- Getting hosted with WP
- Set up a host
- Manage your different domains
- Control user profiles
- Back up your WP blog
- Secure your WP site

Themes
- Create your own theme
- Build a responsive WordPress theme
- Customise a WP theme
- Convert a static site with a child theme
- Create a mobile-friendly site
- Transform HTML to WP

Plugins
- Edit widgets and plugins
- Protect your blog from spam
- Increase your site visits with SEO
- Add a social author box
- Build a WordPress slideshow
- Schedule your blog posts

Customisation
- Add multiple moving backgrounds
- Create an animated logo with CSS3
- Blur and focus your text with Font Font
- Build circular on-hover navigation
- Create animated buttons with CSS3
- Master animated pop-up effects
- Code a fixed image scroll-over effect
- Make an animated off-screen 3D menu
- Create a rotating product viewer

Beyond WordPress
- Master Google Analytics
- Speed up WordPress
- Create a single input 3D form with CSS3
- Design layered backgrounds in Photoshop
- Add an expanding diamond hover effect
- Create an eCommerce web element with CSS3