New edition is online!
Jun 26th, 2008 | By Sites that Soar / Ais | Category: Featured articles
The new edition of Sites That Soar! is for users of WordPress 2.5.x and 2.6, and it’s online now!
This edition contains more than 70 pages. That’s nearly 1/3 larger than the previous book. It’s loaded with step-by-step instructions, screenshots, and cut-and-paste tweaks for your website.
It also contains lots & lots of links to free and inexpensive tools to make your website gorgeous… and really easy to maintain.
This update was a major project, but I’m pleased to know how much time it’ll save my readers.
Late today (Thursday, June 26th), people who purchased the previous version were sent a link to a free copy of this new edition.
If you bought the first edition before June 27, 2008, and didn’t receive your link to the free update, use the Contact form at the top of this page. Tell me your name (PayPal email address) and the date that you bought the book, and I’ll resend the update link.
Thanks to everyone who sent questions and ideas for the new edition. Any suggestions that weren’t included in the book will be addressed at this website, in illustrated articles.
The new edition is for sale at http://www.SitesThatSoar.com/ It’s available for immediate download, even at 3 in the morning!
You’ll love all the screenshots. They make it easy to build your own gorgeous WordPress website!
Note: The old edition is still for sale. After all, many people are still using WordPress 2.3.x
I’ve reduced the price of that book, since people who buy it now won’t get the free upgrade to the WordPress 2.5 edition.
That book’s sales page is at http//www.SitesThatSoar.com/ebook.html
It’s still available as an affiliate product, too, paying 50% for every sale.
I found a small error on page 41 in the section to choose the categories. Instead of “1. Open the file called header.php in wp-content…” the file that should be opened is “index.php” and you will be able to find the line.
Pierre
Ooh, thanks, Pierre! I try to catch all of the typos, but that one slipped past me. Thank you, thank you!
(Backstory: My computer ate my original book. Seriously. All the files vanished*, so — when I was creating the new edition — I was working from an old PDF copy… the only one that’d open for me. And, it had the early typos in them. I tried to catch ‘em all, but that one obviously eluded me.)
*Yes, we looked in Temp, we did all kinds of Searches, trying to find the files, but every one of them was either missing or garbled. (Hey, I was working on my old laptop at the time…) And, since I’d been working on this project while we moved from Texas to NH, I didn’t backup my files. It was a lesson learned, but that’s why the new edition took me so long, and why this typo got past me.
Thank you