The Amazon.com placeholder makes it official, I guess! I haven’t officially announced it yet – so I guess now is as good a time as any! I know I’ve been a little book title neurotic over here, having announced my intention to write TypePad For Dummies just a few months ago – but as with everything else in this world of technology, things move rather fast! Wiley Publishing has made a commitment to put out a series of different WordPress related books over the next year, it’s exciting! My own book, WordPress For Dummies, was so well received with sales that exceeded all expectations – Wiley has heard the call the internet community has made for more WordPress – - and more, and more! Along with my plans to put out the 3rd Edition of WordPress For Dummies, due out the beginning of 2010 (or whenever WordPress 3.0 is nearing release), Aaron Brazell has also announced that he is writing the official WordPress Bible, for Wiley Publishing, due to publish towards the end of this year..maybe early 2010. I’m looking forward to buying that one!
The plan for me was to write the TypePad For Dummies book in between my editions of WordPress For Dummies…until I started talking to my editor about a WordPress enhancement called BuddyPress. Then, I attended WordCamp Chicago in June and had a very nice talk with Matt Mullenweg about BuddyPress, WordPress and WordPress MU and the plans for development in that arena in the very near future, and that basically sealed the deal and changed the plan. Wiley would find a new author for TypePad For Dummies and I would immediately start writing BuddyPress For Dummies. I’m really super excited about writing this book! I wrote a post last year about a web site that I built for a client of mine on the WordPress MU/ BuddyPress platform – and back then, I build it on a very very very beta version of BuddyPress. I’ve watched it grow over the past several months, and the platform is hawt!
As with all the Dummies series of books, BuddyPress For Dummies is meant to get users up and running with the basics of BuddyPress, as well as covering the WordPress/WordPress MU requirements for running it. For those of you who don’t know about BuddyPress – you can check them out on the official BuddyPress web site and read all about it – - join their community and friend me over there, if you want! Basically, it allows people with a WordPress powered site create a full blown social community on their web site. Think: Facebook – - only on a smaller level. Right now, BuddyPress only works if you are running WordPress MU — but look for that to change in the near future!
Excited!
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12:47 pm on July 16th, 2009
Awwww, you’re all official now
Congratulations, so excited for you!!!!!
1:29 pm on July 16th, 2009
We are not worthy.
Way to go!
2:05 pm on July 16th, 2009
@Linds.. yep – official! Officially scared! lol Thanks
2:06 pm on July 16th, 2009
Thank you Andrea!
3:26 pm on July 16th, 2009
Congratulations! I just added it to my wishlist!
1:19 am on July 17th, 2009
I bought your latest “Dummies book”. Thanks for writing these, look forward to BuddyPress!
1:33 am on July 17th, 2009
it is a really good news. Thanks you Lisa.
1:36 am on July 17th, 2009
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, l’a annoncée hier sur son blog: la sortie d’un livre nommé “BuddyPress for Dummies” (annonce officielle ici) [...]
5:00 am on July 17th, 2009
[...] for WordPress news but one thing I noticed was the news surrounding a few books. The first is that Lisa Sabin-Wilson confirmed that she will be writing a new book through Wiley Publishing called BuddyPress For Dummies. Lisa is [...]
6:59 pm on July 19th, 2009
It must have been an incredible amount of work. Congratulations Lisa!
11:38 am on July 20th, 2009
I will definitely be looking forward to this and I have put this tidbit on my things to blog.
I have been following the BuddyPress news for quite some time and I am so happy to hear this.
3:44 pm on July 20th, 2009
Me and a friend tried to use Buddy Press when it first came out, and had many problems. I think some was that we brought in archives of old stuff that could have had harmful code in it, but we got rid of it. I love the concept though, blogs are moving more towards social networks anyway with ning sites and then Facebook and Twitter.
I will definitely have to get the book though. BP is looking better and better all the time.
8:45 pm on July 20th, 2009
[...] (note ‘former’
never returned my first copy. However, this is not why I am blogging. Lisa announced that she is officially going to write BuddyPress for Dummies. This announcement came a day after BuddyPress announced the release of its 1.0.3 [...]
3:06 am on July 21st, 2009
Haha. This is pretty exciting news! Congrats, Lisa!
3:39 am on July 21st, 2009
I didn’t really have a handle on Wordpress until I bought your book so looking forward to Buddypress for dummies like me!!
10:12 am on August 8th, 2009
My summer reading was your Wordpress for Dummies. Maybe I can read this one over the holiday break!
4:59 am on August 31st, 2009
Congratulations.
Been trying to set up a Wordpress Mu with Buddypress, but still having difficulty finding how to reach my original vision with both. Maybe it’s just a case of having to spend more time dedicated on the project.
Still, hope the book works well for you, and especially hope you post a couple of tips up here as well.
8:59 am on September 17th, 2009
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2:21 pm on September 18th, 2009
Congratulations!
7:53 pm on October 11th, 2009
Hi, Just found your site after stumbling upon your great wordpress for dummies book. Highly recommend it to others getting to grips with wordpress.
Big thanks….GJ
5:13 pm on October 14th, 2009
I already read your Wordpress for Dummies book. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks Lisa. I’ll consider your recommendation.
12:10 am on October 22nd, 2009
ever since I started off with Wordpress for Dummies and then getting on with reading advanced tips I find theres a world of knowledge out there hindering my way to decide if my previous platform of choice TypePad is better, still need to go a long way, thanks for the great update
1:26 pm on October 28th, 2009
Hi
I must be the ultimate idiot i still could not accomplish the 5 minute install after 6 hours. I hope the balance of the book is more informative or it will become an excellent fire starter!
6:45 am on December 2nd, 2009
I am excited to get one! A friend told me it’s a cool read – I wonder why!?