--- product_id: 10210373 title: "Professional WordPress 1st Edition" brand: "hal stern" price: "£9.13" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/10210373-professional-wordpress-1st-edition store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Professional WordPress 1st Edition **Brand:** hal stern **Price:** £9.13 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Professional WordPress 1st Edition by hal stern - **How much does it cost?** £9.13 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/10210373-professional-wordpress-1st-edition) ## Best For - hal stern enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted hal stern brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Professional WordPress 1st Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51BHmKIi2xL.jpg) ![Professional WordPress 1st Edition - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61oIA+x1A9L.jpg) ![Professional WordPress 1st Edition - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41uMdfvED0L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ Expecting More Detail Than A Simple Overview *by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2010* I was expecting much more detail than a simple overview in the "Load Balancing" section.I initially downloaded the "sample" to the Kindle app on my iPhone and then perused the table of contents. "Chapter-11: Statistics, Scalability, Security, and Spam" had a section titled "Load Balancing Your WordPress Site". Since this was a "sample" it I was only able to see the name of the section in the table of contents - the actual content of the section was not available until I purchased the book. Since I am responsible for multiple WordPress environments at my job where each environment has at least two web front-ends (LAMP), I was very interested to see what the book had to say about this topic in particular; so, I paid for the full book.With the words "Professional, Design, and Development" in the book's title, I was expecting to see detailed information on the best way to implement a load-balanced WordPress environment. Instead, that section starts with "We are just going to briefly discuss some of the challenges you will encounter when attempting to load balance a dynamically generated site" and then proceeds to list some of the "challenges" that you will face when trying to do this. For anyone already trying to load-balance WordPress you will already know that you need to maintain file synchronization between the front-end web servers. I was expecting an in-depth explanation describing the best method for achieving this and how to actually implement it. Unfortunately, the book only provided a terse overview - no detail.For my WordPress environments I launch a Unison process, via CRON, every 5-minutes to keep the WordPress files synchronized. This works fine and does not present a single point of failure; I was hoping the book would discuss in detail other possible methods. Instead, the book suggests using a shared NFS/Samba volume; however, unless you are running a clustered NFS/Samba server, the shared volume is a single point of failure. The book also suggests using rsync; however, rsync does not work well because it cannot handle the situation where file changes are made on two (or more) servers: it does not keep track of what changes on each server independently in order to know how to resolve the changes so both servers stay up-to-date.In summary, I purchased the book solely for the expected details in the "Load Balancing" section and I was disappointed with the book's lack of detail. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must have Wordpress book *by I***C on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2012* If you want to be a Wordpress developer, buy it and read it. I believe all WP newbies and beginners like to install WP, try playing with it and modifying code without proper knowledge how to create proper WP theme, WP plugins and WP widgets.This book is perfect for every developer who wants to learn Wordpress architecture, how to organize theme code, plugin code, create shortcodes and use them. It's really one of the best beginner books I've ever read. In first chapters you will learn history of Wordpress and how to use it as end customer. Then you'll learn code architecture, how to use basic functions, how to search code, create themes, plugins, customize dashboard. Final chapters are about integrating Wordpress with RSS services, how to handle security, migrate your existing website to Wordpress.It's really fantastic to see how this book can help anyone - PHP beginners and PHP pros. It contains lot of useful information, tips and tricks, security info, plugin recommendations. Plugin demos and examples are really nice. There's some space to fill in but I assume that's why you have to buy Wordpress Plugin Development by Wrox. I have both books and I'm really happy for it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Book *by R***B on Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2011* I got this book to learn how to create themes for Wordpress from scratch. I can already take an existing theme and modify it. The book only has one chapter on this, and really only tells you to use a framework. So the book was a little disappointing for the main reason I purchased the book.However, the book contains very little filler, and covers the in-and-outs of Wordpress, and provided a lot of resources I didn't know about. The first couple chapters were kind of dumb, since most people buying this will already know how to install wordpress and make a basic post. I can see why the author might do this though. Ease people into the book so they get comfortable with it before dropping raw code on them. It also goes against his claim of showing how wordpress works from the core working out.Really minor complaints, just wanted to give a balanced review. With no good books on the market about making themes, this makes the perfect companion to one of those books. After reading it I doubled my knowledge of Wordpress, and I have been working with it for a couple years now. 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