Like many people, I’ve had an ongoing love/hate relationship with WordPress through the course of running my personal blog and some freelance assignments so I am always open to learning more about the platform. I recently read Professional WordPress by Hal Stern, David Damstra, and Brad Wilson from Wiley Publishing, which unlike many other WordPress books focuses on the platform’s backend and tackles the ins and outs of WordPress in the enterprise. Even having some experience installing WordPress myself, I really didn’t know much about its backend and this book really filled in some gaps in my learning.
While there is not much of anything new to learn in the first two chapters, the book really hits its stride when it takes the reader through the WordPress Core and Loop. Both of these topics might be a bit black box to some WordPress users especially if they’ve never had the opportunity to install and tune the product in the wild.
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