I have been hitting the bookstores lately looking for a good WordPress book. Unsuccessfully.
Oh, I have found the Visual QuickStart guide and a few other books, but, like most technology books, once they are published, they are out of date.
That won’t happen with Digging Into WordPress, a new book by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr. That is because you have a lifetime of free upgrades to the PDF version. Can’t beat that.
All printed copies of the book include the PDF (or you can buy the PDF version alone). It’s nice to have a real book to hold in your hands, but the PDF is also great for three big reasons:
1. Hyperlinked. All the many URL’s in the book you can just click to go to the web page referenced. There is also internal linking – you can click links in the table of contents to jump to those sections.
2. Copy & Paste code. Much easier to grab code via copy-and-paste than retyping from scratch. Of course the page numbers in the book and PDF match, so if you are reading the book you can jump over to the PDF and go to that page to copy and paste. You’ll always know exactly where that code is.
3. Search. The book has an appendix, but that’s never quite as good as just using your PDF reader’s search feature to find what you are looking for.
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