Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) by Thord Daniel Hedengren

This is not a book for beginners. You should know HTML and CSS (and some basic PHP) and be comfortable with editing files.

I’ve used the loop before for custom queries, but I found the way he explained it easier to comprehend than other explanations I’ve read.

I felt like some of the code displayed in the book was unnecessary, especially most of the CSS. There were a few things I would have liked to see the code for that weren’t shown, mainly in the second half … continue reading