WordPress – Pushing the Limits Pushing the Limits

Building a successful business based on WordPress is about more than just being a great developer (although that's important). WordPress: Pushing the Limits teaches you how to work effectively with clients, manage a project team, scale up the way you develop with WordPress for larger projects and push WordPress so that your clients have the customized site they need. You'll discover that in many instances there's more than one approach to a challenge and learn how to choose the best one for you, your client and the rest of your team. Find out about: • Hosting and development environments • Contingency planning • Theme building & frameworks • Conditional content – conditional functions, template files and styling • Bespoke functionality - theme functions or plugins? • Making a site soar – HTML, PHP, JavaScript and CSS (optimizing stylesheets and scripts, approaches to animations, media and galleries, improving navigation, geolocation and mapping) • Device compatibility – responsive and mobile development Don't make your own mistakes, but learn from the authors' experience of how to run a successful WordPress agency.

Take WordPress beyond its comfort zone As the most popular open source blogging tool, WordPress is being used to power increasingly advanced sites, pushing it beyond its original purpose. In this unique book, the authors share their experiences and advice for working effectively with clients, manage a project team, develop with WordPress for larger projects, and push WordPress beyond its limits so that clients have the customized site they need in order to succeed in a competitive marketplace. Explains that there is more than one approach to a WordPress challenge and shows you how to choose the one that is best for you, your client, and your team Walks you through hosting and developing environments, theme building, and contingency planning Addresses working with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS WordPress: Pushing the Limits encourages you to benefit from the experiences of seasoned WordPress programmers so that your client's site can succeed.