--- product_id: 1875105 title: "WordPress: The Missing Manual" price: "AED 105" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1875105-wordpress-the-missing-manual store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # WordPress: The Missing Manual **Price:** AED 105 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** WordPress: The Missing Manual - **How much does it cost?** AED 105 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1875105-wordpress-the-missing-manual) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 3.9’s themes, widgets, plug-ins, and souped-up editing and multimedia tools to build just about any kind of site. The important stuff you need to know: Create your site. Get hands-on, A-to-Z instructions for building all types of websites, from classy blogs to professional-looking ecommerce sites. Add features. Choose from thousands of widgets and plug-ins to enhance your site’s ease of use, looks, and performance. Mix in multimedia. Add picture galleries, slideshows, video clips, music players, and podcasts to your pages. Attract an audience. Create automatic content feeds, sign up site subscribers, and help readers share your posts on social media. Fine-tune your content. Analyze site statistics to improve your content and reach, and to optimize your site for search engines. Go Mobile. Choose a theme that automatically reconfigures your site for mobile devices. Build a truly unique site. Learn how to customize WordPress themes to create a site that looks exactly the way you want it to. Review: Its a really great book, however if you have some experience building ... - Its a really great book, however if you have some experience building web sites (like i do) you might want to skip it. Author assumes you don't even understand html or css. I read the whole book anyway and saved myself some time of clicking around wordpress dashboard, but i could have done that instead. I really liked the way author explains things, especially when he is talking a little bit about php at the end, i think it should be easy to understand for beginners. I read lots of web design and programming books and i can tell that M. MacDonald has a really good style of writing, he doesn't skip anything and makes everything clear and easy. So if you don't feel like exploring wordpress on your own and want to sit back and relax while learning i think you should get this book. Well not really, you still need to open your wordpress dashboard and explore as you read. Author also mentions a lot of useful links and websites that might be helpful in the future, i didn't know some of them but I'm glad i do now. Review: If You Want To Get Into WordPress - This Is Highly Recommended - My tendency to compare every Missing Manual and tech writer to David Pogue is probably the reason I can't give this a 5 star review, although a lot of thought, knowledge, skill and expertise went into this book. I bought Mac For Dummies in the mid-ninties back when I bough my first Power PC, and I'm sorry, MacDonald doesn't have that quick wit hat I've always enjoyed form Pogue. However, what "WordPress: The Missing Manual" lacks in entertainment value, it more than compensates fro in usefulness. And let me say this - if you are about to enter the world of WordPress, this is probably the best of the instructional references on the subject. I have spent hours in a Barnes and Noble brick & mortar store poring through other WordPress books and this is the most complete and up to date book I could find. There are other more advanced WordPress books - some that delve more deeply into niches (such as blogger or website specific or business and marketing specific). But this covers a WHOLE LOT of ground and you can be a total newbie and/or a reasonably advanced user and still find this a useful reference to keep handy in your library or by the computer workstation. As with all the other "Missing Manual" series books, there is a "Missing CD" website where you can find links to toehr resources and files referred to in the book as well as updates to the content. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,709,128 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #123 in User Generated Content (Books) #181 in Content Management #216 in Blogging & Blogs | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 167 Reviews | ## Images ![WordPress: The Missing Manual - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Alr2-W6-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Its a really great book, however if you have some experience building ... *by E***A on February 6, 2015* Its a really great book, however if you have some experience building web sites (like i do) you might want to skip it. Author assumes you don't even understand html or css. I read the whole book anyway and saved myself some time of clicking around wordpress dashboard, but i could have done that instead. I really liked the way author explains things, especially when he is talking a little bit about php at the end, i think it should be easy to understand for beginners. I read lots of web design and programming books and i can tell that M. MacDonald has a really good style of writing, he doesn't skip anything and makes everything clear and easy. So if you don't feel like exploring wordpress on your own and want to sit back and relax while learning i think you should get this book. Well not really, you still need to open your wordpress dashboard and explore as you read. Author also mentions a lot of useful links and websites that might be helpful in the future, i didn't know some of them but I'm glad i do now. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ If You Want To Get Into WordPress - This Is Highly Recommended *by H***N on April 5, 2015* My tendency to compare every Missing Manual and tech writer to David Pogue is probably the reason I can't give this a 5 star review, although a lot of thought, knowledge, skill and expertise went into this book. I bought Mac For Dummies in the mid-ninties back when I bough my first Power PC, and I'm sorry, MacDonald doesn't have that quick wit hat I've always enjoyed form Pogue. However, what "WordPress: The Missing Manual" lacks in entertainment value, it more than compensates fro in usefulness. And let me say this - if you are about to enter the world of WordPress, this is probably the best of the instructional references on the subject. I have spent hours in a Barnes and Noble brick & mortar store poring through other WordPress books and this is the most complete and up to date book I could find. There are other more advanced WordPress books - some that delve more deeply into niches (such as blogger or website specific or business and marketing specific). But this covers a WHOLE LOT of ground and you can be a total newbie and/or a reasonably advanced user and still find this a useful reference to keep handy in your library or by the computer workstation. As with all the other "Missing Manual" series books, there is a "Missing CD" website where you can find links to toehr resources and files referred to in the book as well as updates to the content. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for newbies through intermediate *by D***N on August 28, 2014* An excellent, up-to-date introduction to WordPress. Good for beginners who have little or no experience with website creation, as well as for those with some familiarity with HTML, CSS and PHP (the basic building blocks of WordPress). Even at almost 600 pages, it can't cover everything, but MacDonald provides plenty of links to more info on the web (including the "missing CD" with links organized by chapter). One area the book ignores is the idea of setting up a local development environment on your own computer, rather than on a live, publicly-viewable site. While it's fine not to tackle that in detail in a beginner-friendly book, some basic guidance for readers and some links would have been a good idea. I've read the book from start to finish, and am combining it with an online video training course. In sum, a very well-written, well-organized learning tool, to take you from newbie up to at least an intermediate level. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1875105-wordpress-the-missing-manual](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/1875105-wordpress-the-missing-manual) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-06-11*