WordPress Book Published

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The book!Wow! It’s hard to believe, but my first book is now a real­ity! Sev­eral cop­ies of my first book — “Build­ing Online Com­munit­ies with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress” arrived at my door this morning.

This is the book, pub­lished by Apress that I have co-authored with Robert T Dou­glass and Jared Smith over the last six months or so. It has long been my ambi­tion to be pub­lished and when the oppor­tun­ity presen­ted itself earlier this year, I had to grab it with both hands. It has been quite a hard struggle; writ­ing in a small amount of spare time is not easy, but I do think it has been worth it.

The res­ult is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online com­munity. Although I wrote the book using ver­sion 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are ver­sion agnostic. This isn’t a “how to use WordPress” book (the excel­lent WordPress Codex is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.

You can buy the book online dir­ectly from Apress includ­ing in eBook form. You can buy from Amazon.co.uk or you can buy it from Amazon.com. I’m not sure whether it will be on the shelves of your local book store yet, but it will be over the next couple of days.

Apress have a good sum­mary of the book (my emphasis):

Con­tent man­age­ment, blogs, and online for­ums are among the most sig­ni­fic­ant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most pop­u­lar open source applic­a­tions facil­it­at­ing these trends.

Drupal is a full con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem that allows you to cre­ate any type of web­site you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bul­letin board or forum. And WordPress is the soft­ware of choice for the explod­ing blog com­munity. All three tech­no­lo­gies are based on PHP and MySQL.

Jamie and I with the bookFinally, I think Jamie is quite proud of her Dad, Jan is just glad it’s finally pub­lished! I must thank them both for put­ting up with me while I’ve struggled through this. The next one will be easier! I have to thank Matt, Ryan, and the rest of the WordPress com­munity, without whom I would have had noth­ing to write about!

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  6. Con­grats Mike. Being able to check off the “pub­lished book author” column on ones résumé (résumés have such a column? Ok, maybe not) is a very good thing indeed. Though I’m not build­ing any online com­munit­ies any­time soon, I look for­ward to read­ing it.

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  11. Lelia,
    Thanks for the com­ments. I’m very pleased to have real­ized this ambi­tion. I’ve got to go and scour my local book shops later and see if any have it on the shelf!

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  14. Hi Ovad,
    The Apress FAQ has this to say:

    What format are the eBooks in? Are there any restric­tions when using them?

    Apress eBooks are in Adobe PDF format. To read them, you will need an appro­pri­ate PDF browser, such as the free Adobe Reader. Print­ing, doc­u­ment assembly, con­tent copy­ing or extrac­tion, and con­tent extrac­tion for access­ib­il­ity are per­miss­ible, for per­sonal use only.

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  15. Hey Mike, look­ing damn damn good. Should have pos­ted some­thing earlier to be hon­est but I’ve been all over the place. I’ll def­in­itely be check­ing this out very soon :) . Merry Christ­mas buddy.

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  17. Con­grat­u­la­tions Mike. Its good to hear that your hard work has been rewar­ded. I hope the book sells well.
    And hope you have a great christ­mas too.
    Regards
    Carol

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  22. AHA! So you are that Mike Little — the one who co-authoured the book. I’ve wondered about that as I’ve waited for it from my local bookstore.

    Con­grat­u­la­tions! You should be very proud of your accom­plish­ment. (And it’s nice to be able to put a face on you although your daugh­ter steals the show in your picture.)

    Many thanks for the plu­gin tip.

    All the Best
    Steve

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  27. Con­grats. Php is too much for me to com­pre­hend. Great that other com­puter geeks sor­ted everything out for the simple girls, so I just have to enable the plu­gins in WordPress. I love plu­gins!! I prom­ise , I will learn Drupal, too. Whatever that is :-)

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  28. I’m search­ing for info about wordpress and happened on this post­ing. I dunno… I just felt so excited for you and your amaz­ing accom­plish­ment! Congrads!

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