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First, I'm a developer. I've been building WordPress web applications for 6 years, and marketing sites with WordPress before that. Mostly I've been creating intranet applications for corporations. These have been highly customized web apps, with a content management core. In short, I'm the person this book was written for, albeit probably more experienced than most.
I bought this book thinking that if it didn't have much that I didn't already know, I'd send it back. Well I'm keeping it! Every page in this volume has at least one thing that I didn't know, or had read but didn't think about much. Much of it is easily available in the WordPress docs, but nevertheless, this is a good reference.
Its reasonably thorough. The chapter on ecommerce might not tell you absolutely everything you need to know about designing an ecommerce site (it would need a second volume for that) but it doesn't have any bad advice, and certainly gets you going in the right direction.
It does cover a lot of ground in 500 pages. But there is no fluff, and not a lot of code. Its not a "cookbook". To use it, you will have to think for yourself, and apply ideas from this book to your solution to your application.
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