[Expired] Free Book Competition “WordPress 3 Site Blueprints”, Comment to Win

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It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one of two PDF ebooks, entitled WordPress 3 Site Blueprints that usual sells for $32. It has been written by Heather R. Wallace and its a book that will show you everything you will ever need to build a varied collection of feature-rich customized WordPress websites.

This competition will run for the next 14 days, and all you have to do for a chance to win your own copy is leave a comment below telling us why you love WordPress. Winners will be chosen at random and will be notified by email. Best of luck to everyone :)

About the Book: WordPress 3 Site Blueprints

WordPress 3 Site BlueprintsWhile some books merely talk about the capabilities of WordPress in general and leave you to figure out how they apply to your situation, WordPress 3 Site Blueprints takes a different approach. The first chapter will show you how to migrate from an existing static website to a WordPress blog. Each of the other chapters is devoted to the construction of a different type of site that can be created with WordPress and the right combination of themes and/or plugins. As you follow along, you will learn by doing because each of these nine chapters shows you how to build a WordPress-powered site from start to finish. That means that, by the time you reach the end of every chapter, you will have a fully-functional site online.

You can also download a sample chapter, bly clicking here: Chapter No.4 “Project 4: Building a Local Classified Ads Website”.

How to win this book

This competition will run for the next 14 days, and all you have to do for a chance to win your own copy is leave a comment below telling us Why you love WordPress. The winners will be selected at random and will be informed directly after the competition ends via email. Good luck to everyone :)

  • Cocko

    I love WordPress cause it’s Easy and functional, Hope I can win?! :)

  • Andy

    I love wordpress because it makes it so easy to build a well organised site – then all you have to worry about is making it look nice!

  • Alicia

    I love WordPress because it’s incredibly flexible, well developped, with a vibrant and enthusiastic community.

  • http://www.2helixtech.com matthias

    I love WordPress because it has uber flexibility.

  • http://www.delonghimagnifica.com Pat

    Silly question! I love WordPress because of the huge community, massive numbers of plugins, and how easy it is to make the platform do anything you ask of it.

    I hope I win!

  • http:/pablolarah.cl/ Pablo Lara H

    I ove WordPress because of its flexibility and the easy way to add plugins.

  • http://monkey-house.ca Greg

    I love WordPress because although you can quickly overkill with plugins, some of the gems let you do things you’d spend months trying to handcraft otherwise. Easy plugin system = easily add new functionality! Win.

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  • Alberto

    Love the simplicity and themes! :)

  • Alejandra Pantoja

    i can say i love it, because i dont know it but im so curious that i want the book to learn it faster and start to love it

  • http://nashville-sheriff.net Jesse

    I love WordPress because it’s my new site design tool of choice, and has expanded my web capabilities a thousandfold.

  • Rhett

    WordPress has changed the way I communicate and how I communicate on the web. Simple, easy and efficient.

  • http://www.infrasoundkids.com Luke

    I love wordpress, because it’s focused on getting content made, not bloated with things you don’t need.

  • http://www.paper-leaf.com/blog Jeff

    I love WordPress because it’s easy for both web designers and business owners to work with.

  • http://picszoom.wordpress.com/ Lee

    Can be user friendly sometimes but you work and learn with it.

  • Fab

    I love WordPress for several reasons. The backend is very fonctionnal, it’s easy to create theme, and there are a lot of good plugins.

  • http://www.dreamlinuxforums.org/ Ruud Kuin

    Although I’m an absolute ‘Newby’ in this mobile form of communication, I can see the enormous power it has in the near future. As a graphics designer I feel the need to grab the opportunity to use WordPress as this could/will become the new tool and standard for publishing and communicating. To really comprehend what WordPress is all about, I need to go through its blueprints, hence my comment here, written on my HTC using Android. Really up-to-date, don’t you think? RK

  • KennyK

    I LOVE WordPress because it makes me look like a talented, conscientious web designer who cares what a client thinks!

  • http://valeriu.tihai.md Valeriu Tihai

    Why you love WordPress? – Because it is simple.

  • http://valeriu.tihai.md Valeriu Tihai

    Why you love WordPress? – Because it is simple.

  • Yuri

    I love WordPress because I like it xD

  • http://www.amanzi-media.com Mark H

    Love the power and flexibility of WP 3 and use it for all my web development projects, although still a lot to learn.

  • Philip

    I love WordPress because of it’s functionality and support. Even though it is open source, the programmers care about it enough to protect it and the community that is built around it, is amazing.

  • http://fedelosa.com Federico Lorenzo

    WordPress is easy to install, easy to learn, is the most flexible CMS I know, that is why I love it :)

  • http://goodwebdesign.co.nz Erwin | Good Web Design

    Love WordPress? Can’t believe if you don’t love it… 1 on 10 websites is running on WP! I must not the only one loving it! Cheers ;-)

  • http://www.natselection.com Matt

    Honestly I can’t say I love WP quite yet. I am just starting to learn in from the bottom up.

    Good Luck All!

  • http://joshuaguffey.com Joshua Guffey

    Why?

    WordPress has enabled me to easily share photos of my son’s birth, stories of his development and my own life experiences and growth.

    It’s enabled me to secure a job that I love where in one of my functions is to build, maintain and promote websites built on the WordPress platform.

    WordPress, more than any other technology to date, has contributed to my life and my freedom in a way I could never have expected.

    I’m thrilled to be learning more everyday!

    A HUGE “thank you!!” to the entire WordPress Dev community! You may not know it, but you’ve made things possible in my life. Thank you!

    -Joshua Guffey (@JoshuaGuffey)

  • http://artofthefirebird.com Julia

    I love WordPress because I maintain several different websites, for personal and work activities. Now that I have converted most of them over to WordPress I actually have time to focus on CONTENT!

  • http://doscafes.com sebastian

    I love wordpress ’cause allow me to run a site without care about all the messy code issue. With wordpress i can do almost everything. :D

  • Jorge Luis Jaral

    WordPress it’s the most complete and feature rich CMS available on the Industry, its capabilities are only limited by the frontend dev’s imagination, that’s why I love it… And by the way, I’m also developing my very own framework to allow the common user a easier WP theme customization, I’ll let you know :¬)

  • http://andrai.com Andrai

    WordPress saved me from a life of crime.

    • Jorge Luis Jaral

      Hahaha! If allowed I vote for Andrai
      :¬)

  • http://www.wpcanyon.com Boba

    How can you not love WordPress? :)

    Flexible, comprehensive, intuitive, expandable and some other fancy words i don’t really know what they mean and on top of that earns me money.

    Gimme the book.

  • http://twitter.com/gemmaweirs Gemma

    I love WordPress because it is so versatile, simple to set-up and use, with lots of plugins and themes freely available. Plus it’s free. Oh, did I mention that it’s free…? ;-)

  • AboSami

    I love a wordpress because the wordpress is the best system cms. You can using wordpress with blog, gallary , content mangement system , … etc ..
    also it is very fast , smart , dynamic. I think the wordpress is the best CMS. Thank you very much .. I wish to win this book .. ^_^

  • Eduardo

    So… I love WordPress because it is the best CMS around.. It is to only CMS that I like to work with.. so flexible..

  • http://pacura.ru/ Ovidiu

    I love WordPress because of its plugins/themes option: everyone is free to create and extend it :-)

  • http://www.ankinanti.com Ankinanti

    i love wordpress for how amazing it can be..it’s simple, organize, and you can get a lot of benefits in it..it can give everything that you need to build a website from static website, e-commerce, blog, etc. and it has a lot of plugins, you named it!!
    i wish i can win the book :D

  • nad

    i love WP because “code is poetry”

  • http://www.radicals.co.il Rotem Elimelech

    Just do it, WordPress.

  • Emmanuel

    I love wordpress because it is great!! :D

  • Aaron

    How do I love thee, WordPress? Let me count the ways.

    1. You’re easy to install
    2. You’re easy to customize
    3. Your plugins are numerous
    4. You’re free

  • http://www.healthedialogue.com Chris Miller

    I’ve always used – and loved – Drupal in the past, but I keep telling myself I should try WordPress as I keep hearing it’s much easier. I’m hoping a book like this will give me the push I need to build my first WordPress site.

  • http://blog.aditu.de Tobi

    I love it because of the easy and straight forward architecture!

  • Steve Robillard

    I love wordpress because it makes it easy enough for clients to post content themselves … you know the whole teach a man/woman to fish thing.

  • http://yo27.com machbio

    I am Building A Blog network with WordPress 3.0 .. i definetely would love to have such a Book, when i am building it.. I hope those specky little eyes of SPecky boy is Reading this… :)

  • http://www.windkr89.nl/ Erik

    I love WordPress, cause it’s easy to set up, easy to maintain and theming is also easy. With minimal effort, i get maximum results for my clients.
    I know there are ‘better’ CMS solutions, but in 8 of the 10 cases, WordPress suits best!

  • http://surfsmith.com KeithM

    I design sites for website newbies to intermediates, and I try to design a site that is easy for me to hand off the controls and let them run with it. WordPress along with their many plugins have made alot of people I know very happy with the front/back side functionality, looks, and support that’s out there. I found Joomla first but WordPress definitely Rocks!

  • http://poluske.net Alex

    Very good tool for webdesigner ! yeah !!!

  • Aparna

    I love wordpress because its easy to use and create themes. you can create what you want. and its free

  • Janice

    Loving WordPress for the ability to easily customize both front and back-end, the vast community support, intuitive admin ui and hopefully the book will provide even more insights to the depths of WP.

  • anxos

    i love wordpress because it is easy to use, flexible to customize and fun!

  • Munim

    I love WordPress, because the APIs provided are so simple. And easy to achieve whatever wanted

  • http://warstwy.com dumass

    I love WP because is free and easy.

  • Koko

    I love WordPress more as a CMS than a blog platform because while it allows small businesses to own websites whose content they can control, it also allows designers and developers to collaborate without interfering in each other’s work or breaking the website. Brilliant !!!

  • http://www.bigdotmedia.co.uk James

    I love WordPress because it embodies the spirit of open sourcery. Apple have the tag line “There’s an app for that”, WordPress in our office has the tag line “There’s a plugin for that!”

    Even when there isn’t a plug in, it’s just so easy to integrate your own in comparison with other CMS’s.

  • http://www.claireguilloton.com Claire

    I would be very happy to have this book as I want to learn more about WordPress.
    Thanks!

  • http://www.krop.com/ariarsyadi/ Ari Arsyadi

    Hi, I am a freelance designer as well as a graphic design lecturer in a college in Indonesia. In my everyday work, I surely need a high quality book and this one seems like the perfect choice to add to my collection. Honestly I just start learning about WordPress recently and really need some useful guidance as I believe it is a helpful CMS to work with. I imagine how easy my work process will become with this book and I will absolutely pass on this news about how important this book to my students and my peers.

    Thanks

  • Mara J.

    I love WordPress because it is easy to set up and most anyone can use the CMS. Plugins make is a breeze to add new features to a WordPress site.

  • http://www.madlycreative.net Jonathan

    I love WordPress because they listened to their users and developed something that rocks.

    Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

  • http://www.katado.com Robert Hoppe

    I love WordPress, because its so easy to customize. Its easy to build a own unique theme :)

  • http://dilloazidane.wordpress.com Gianfra

    Why Not?

  • http://www.jupiterwoodsman.com Evan Bowers

    I love WordPress because of the massive amount of support.

  • Jake A

    WordPress makes my life easier!!!

  • MauroP

    I love it because it can go with cookies.

  • http://danielpaul.me Daniel Paul

    Why I love wordpress? I could write pages about this… It’s simple, organizable, self-hosted, easy install, customizable, flexible, its FREE & it basically provides everything for my website… WP Rocks! :D

  • Reed Kenyon

    I love WordPress because it’s so flexible, full featured, customizable CMS around.

    WordPress has changed how people share content on the Internet.

  • http://www.thomasguillot.com ThomasG

    I love WordPress because of its flexibility and how it’s simple to create great themes!

  • http://www.matthewrpritchett.com Matthew Pritchett

    I love WordPress because of the ease of learning.

  • Shebby

    I love wordpress as its the best php based CMS that i have played with.

  • http://heathwaller.com/ Heath

    I love WordPress because it was the only CMS platform I was able to figure out how to install when I started! Not to mention the fact that a lot of amazing people have created free education materials and tutorials for beginners.

  • http://www.zeltrine.com zeltrine

    I love wordpress cuz it makes me da monies.

  • http://penggaris.com yaayaat

    I love WordPress because it’s has open my mind about the Word is not boundaries, so you can write anything in your mind without boundaries.

  • Luca

    I love WordPress because it was been and is revolutionary

  • http://ideatreedesignonline.com Jeremy Jared

    I love WordPress because I am a displaced construction worker who was “retrained” as a graphic designer. The amount of schooling offered by workers comp wasn’t enough for me to competitively search for a decent job in the industry. The class offered no web-design instructions. With WordPress I have been able to design websites to help pay the bills. I started off with the WYSIWYG, and I have been slowly “weening” myself from it and learning HTML/CSS. I need the book, knowledge is POWER!

  • R. Votre

    I love WordPress for one very simple reason: WordPress succeeds because it handles virtually all of the technical and coding details, thereby freeing up time better spent on design and content development.

  • Tiago Duarte

    I love WordPress because of the awesome theme customization, functionality and most of all because of the documentation and community which makes it the best CMS in the entire world!
    :D

  • Brian Sparks

    WordPress helps me provide much much more to my clients.

  • Sean

    I love WordPress because you can create some really nice websites with it and it makes it fairly easy for my clients to maintain their own site.

  • http://anassin.com Swat Chap

    I love WordPress because it is easy and nice.

  • http://www.rccar.dk Ivan Sørensen

    I love wordpress because it’s so easy to start with, and simple to use – also learning others “with no coding/web experince” about wordpres is fast – they are off with a website in no time – thank’s to WP

  • http://www.creativekatch.com KatZ

    I really love WordPress because it opened up a whole new platform not only for blogging and social media but for businesses and non-developers as well. It’s the CMS that equips anyone who wants a website with full flexibility and ease.

  • frazz

    I´d love getting this :)

  • frazz

    I´d love getting this :)

  • http://virtuadesign.ca François

    I’m confident about this book… It will change my life!

  • http://www.hastishah.com Hastimal Shah

    I really really love WordPress because it easily to customize and we can build cms,blogging, social network and eCommerce based website easily. Even a person without any programming language can build website with basic knowledge of wordpress.

  • http://www.petrivoges.com petrivoges

    Easy does it. Quick deployment and an infinite range of plugins

  • Marcelo Zagal

    Simply because it gives non-technical people the opportunity to make clever websites.

  • y_nk

    WordPress always pushed further CMS community ; since a long time many did copy on it. It was the first to provide an automagicallic html installer, a fully usable back office, and a multiblog support (which IS a must have). i do develop on it almost everyday :)

  • Shane Cronin

    I love WordPress because its so easy to theme and develop for. There are tonnes of resources out there to get beginners started. I use it for the majority of my sites. Thank you WordPress!

  • http://www.isaakkwok.com/ Isaak

    It is easy to implement and the plugins allow for infinite usage opportunities.

  • http://looksharpdesigns.com William Gentry

    WordPress, how I love thee. Let me count the ways:

    1. Ease of Use – easy to install, easy to upgrade, easy to theme, easy to use.

    2. Bountiful Resources – tutorials, plugins, themes, code snippets, and so much more.

    3. Infinitely Flexible – (ok, maybe not infinitely) blogging, “static” websites, article repository, photo blogs, video blogs, brochure sites, memberships sites, e-commerce, portfolios, online resumes, social networking; so many ways to to use it.

    4. Multimedia – photos, written content, streaming audio, streaming video, photo slideshows, media downloads, ebooks, articles.

    5. User Friendly – beginners can use it without being a programmer, power users can tweak to their heart’s content, and everyone in between can find their comfort zone.

    But why I really love WordPress? All it takes is some imagination to find the perfect way to use WordPress for my needs!

  • http://www.lamtruonghuy.info Huy

    I love WordPress cause it’s Easy and functional.

  • Jose Adan Ortiz

    I love wordpress because turn your clients dreams into certain reality… =D

  • http://www.leafydesigns.co.za/blog/ Justin Leaf-Wright

    I have used many a CMS… Joomla, Drupal, WordPress etc

    I can say without a doubt that you can NOT go wrong with WordPress.

    I use WordPress with the majority of my sites and have found NO fault

    I hope the guys keep up the good work.

    Book would be great too ;)

  • Carlos

    I touched on WordPress before for a minor project and really liked the robustness and flexibility of it and at the same time the simplicity and straightforwardness of customizing it for my specific needs. A few years later, I’m starting to work with WordPress again, first for my personal sites, and later for some client works. Winning this e-book will be a perfect timing as I really need as much info as I can have regarding WordPress, especially with the release of its latest version.

  • http://mastermat.uqac.ca Mat

    I love wordpress because it made my soon-to-be-boring web developper job explode to become fantastic !

  • Erick

    Because of we all love WordPress for all the reasons you all mentioned, our loved CMS is the most used in the earth.

  • Sean Crater

    I love WordPress because of how easy it is to modify. I think id enjoy reading this book because I want to learn more about WP sites.

  • Patrik

    I really like wordpress because it is relatively easy to get started with and that there are many free themes to use.

  • Jason

    I love wordpress because it is constantly improving, and because it’s super easy to use, even for somebody like myself who doesn’t know a lot of php.

  • http://www.digitalmilitia.com.au Anthony

    WordPress. It’s the word so shout it from the roof tops.

  • http://think.dj/ thinkdj

    By far, the easiest and the best CMS I’ve ever used.

  • http://design-london.blogspot.com Dan

    I love WordPress because it’s more powerful than I can possibly imagine…

  • http://snipto.dk Søren Schrøder

    I love WordPress, because it has the most simple cms beckend for my clients to use.

  • Gaurav Sharma

    I love WP because it is possible to use it for almost all type of websites. Be it mobile, shopping, portfolio, video blogging, image sharing, community, or traditional blogging it is all possible under one greatest opensource tool of all times WORDPRESS!!
    Has anyone got anything better! Nah! WP rules!!

  • http://jumplist.com Chris Dickman

    How can you not love the fact that with WordPress you can sleep at night, knowing your site is running a stable, state of the art, future-proof CMS?

  • http://krockets.com ADITYO

    I love WordPress , because WordPress is love to me to make some money

  • Colette Lane

    I love WordPress, because it provides automatic CMS updates, as well as automatic plugin and theme installation. Not to mention, thousands of free widgets, plugins, and themes to choose from. Strong community, and just an amazing CMS!

  • http://www.saferemployees.com Melissa Snow

    We have always gone the route of outsourcing our web design for the last 12 years. Just 2 months ago I ran across WordPress through a business contact. I had no idea about the possibilities beyond “just blogging”…they are infinite! I would like to see how this book could help us change how we design our sites, how to decrease design time and costs. Thanks for the opportunity!

  • http://www.investasijatim.com Yudhi Ar,

    I do not care to win or not, wordpress has brought a change in web technology

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