After nearly a year of production, design, planning, and writing, I am proud to announce the release of my new book, Digging into WordPress! Written with co-author and master designer Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks, Digging into WordPress covers everything you need to get the most out of WordPress and take your WordPress skills to the next level.

The book is nine chapters absolutely packed with 400+ pages of WordPress tutorials, techniques, tips and tricks. From setting up your site and customizing your theme to maximizing WordPress feeds and optimizing your site for the search engines, Digging into WordPress will help you understand what works, why it works, and how to do it. The book also covers website security, comment customization, and performance optimization in considerable detail.

Digging into WordPress also has a companion site, DigWP.com, where Chris and I share quality articles, resources, and even free themes to everyone, not just people who buy the book. Together with the website, Digging into WordPress provides everything you need to run an efficient, well-optimized and secure WordPress-powered site. But don’t take my word for it, read what others have to say about Digging into WordPress.

Currently, the book is available in PDF format, which is ideal for following along with the tutorials and techniques on your computer. All of the code is right there in the PDF — no need to go hunting around the Web to download convoluted zip files — just copy, click and paste the code into place. Each code example and technique is fully self-contained, so you have everything you need to get the job done. A good understanding of HTML, CSS and some basic familiarity with PHP is recommended, but by no means required to benefit from the book. Also awesome in the PDF version of the book: everything is hyperlinked — pages, links, the Index, Table of Contents — everything. Plus, the book is designed in landscape format to fit optimally within the window of your PDF reader.

As if that weren’t awesome enough, everyone who purchases the book will get a free lifetime subscription to all future updates. This is great news because WordPress is a constantly changing piece of software, causing other WordPress books to be outdated almost as soon as they are released. With Digging into WordPress, Chris and I will be adding new material and updating content as WordPress evolves, so you’ll be getting the absolute most value while staying up-to-speed on everything WordPress has to offer. And, better still, we are currently finishing up printing for the actual print-format version of the book, which should hopefully be available before Christmas!

Here are some resources for more information on Digging into WordPress:

• Chris’ announcement at CSS-Tricks
• Jeff’s announcement at Perishable Press
• Digging into WordPress official site announcement
• Learn more at the official Book section of DigWP
• Download a PDF demo (includes part of Chapter 3 and the Table of Contents)

So what are you waiting for! Get the book!