Stephanie Leary

Writer and WordPress consultant

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    • Content Strategy for WordPress (2015)
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Bookslut interviews

November 8, 2004 Stephanie Leary

So it’s Monday, and I seem incapable of putting together a coherent thought, but I am eminently capable of reading interviews over at Bookslut when I should be working.

Caitlín Kiernan

I love quotes from writers about what it feels like to write. None of them are ever the same, and yet they are.

It was like having to spend every day sitting in front of a mirror, vivisecting my own brain.

Jennifer Weiner

Lisa, this quote’s for you:

She wanted me to make sure to ask you why your character, like in Good in Bed, thought she was fat when she was only a size fourteen, or whatever. I mean, there are a lot of us out there bigger than that…

I know, I know! Well Becky’s a little more than that, in Little Earthquakes. If there’s one thing that I regret about that, one thing I could change, it would be putting a size on her. I remember when I read She’s Come Undone (by Wally Lamb) and they mention the weight of the main character. Here I am seeing that number and thinking, she thinks she’s a big fat cow but I’m that size too. So, I’m regretting classifying it.

Books

Latest WordPress Book

Content Strategy for WordPress

A short book for content strategists and managers on implementing a complete content strategy in WordPress: evaluation, analysis, content modeling, editing and workflows, and long-term planning and maintenance.

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WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress for Web Developers (9781430258667)

This is a book for professional web designers and developers who already know HTML and CSS, and want to learn to build sites with WordPress. The book begins with a detailed tour of the administration screens and settings, then digs into server-side topics like performance and security. The second half of the book is devoted to development: learning to build WordPress themes and plugins.

This is the second, much-revised and updated edition of Beginning WordPress 3, with a more accurate title. Everything’s been updated for WordPress 3.6.

WordPress for Web Developers is out now. See what's inside...

The best WordPress features you’ve never noticed

  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Screen Options
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Bulk Edit
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Private Status
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Dashboard Feed Readers
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Options.php

Content Modeling for WordPress series

  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

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