This essential guide teaches everything you need to know to construct a drop-dead great WordPress blog.- Readers will learn how to get the most out of their blogs and Web sites using the advanced power of WorldPress in this accessible guide.- Provides complete instructions for installing, using, and customizing WordPress for beginning and intermediate users.- Author Scott McNulty is a recognized expert in the blogging world. WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites. Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates. In this guide WordPress expert Scott McNulty walks readers through the entire process: installation and set-up, dealing with content, tweaking your blog with themes and plug-ins and more. He then provides in-depth coverage of the different types of Blogs available with WordPress (photoblogs, podcasts, group blogs, Tumbleblogs) and finally provides troubleshooting tips for common mistakes, excessive traffic, database issues and backing up.