--- product_id: 1652859 title: "WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner" price: "₱1845" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1652859-wordpress-to-go-how-to-build-a-wordpress-website-on store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner **Price:** ₱1845 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner - **How much does it cost?** ₱1845 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1652859-wordpress-to-go-how-to-build-a-wordpress-website-on) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner [McHarry, Sarah] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner Review: A great tool for getting started with WordPress - With this book in hand, I finally tackled a job I'd been putting off for months - converting my old hand-built website to a WordPress.org site. It involved changing hosts, since my previous provider didn't offer a WordPress installation, and frankly that intimidated me more than a little. Following Ms McHarry's advice (and some other on-line checking), I signed up with Hostgator. After an initial hiccup or two, easily resolved via their customer service, they completely transferred my site from my old provider to Hostgator. The WP installation was very easy and straightforward to do myself. This book provides an excellent basic overview of how WP works and how to set up your site with pages and posts, categories, widgets, plug-ins, comment moderation, etc. I appreciated her suggestions for plug-ins to add and how to set them up. Overall, I found the book well-written, and appropriately targeted for her stated audience - beginners with basic familiarity with web site structure and usage. It by no means answered every question I had (particularly about making WP pages top level in your domain, or how to convert existing .htm pages to WP). But it gave me a very good foundation to start with, which made it much easier to understand the more detailed on-line WP help or other internet sources. The one slight nit-pick is that she advises you to disable Jetpack early on (I assume to make the tutorial easier to follow), and then never says anything more about this plugin. In fact, I found Jetpack to be immensely useful once I did activate it. Among its many features is an easy-to-add set of social media link buttons. Given the importance of social media these days, I'm a little surprised this was missing from the book, but perhaps it's been added to later editions than the one I purchased. All in all, if you are just getting started on WP, your $5 (Kindle version) will be well-spent on this nice, easy tutorial guide! Review: Just like the Title says - This book is a must read if you are brand new to Wordpress and have no idea where to begin. Given her background as a programmer, Sarah does a great job of walking you through everything, from setting up your hosting account, to installing WordPress on your domain, to adding pages, posts, changing themes, SEO etc. I originally bought this book because I wanted to do a makeover for my family's Christmas Tree farm website. I had some basic html knowledge but I was looking for a platform that offered WYSISYG features and that wasn't going to involve extensive coding ( that stuff gives me a headache). The Wordpress platform suited my needs and at no point did I feel lost in going through the book. I am a visual person and the fact that she created a separate website ( keeping chickens.net ) as the sample website for her readers to view was a godsend for me. Now I will mention that there are a lot more things she could have included and perhaps elaborated on some of the more desirable features of Wordpress such as plugins, social media etc - but the point of this book is to get the basic idea of how to create a website on your own domain. If you want to take it further, she does a wonderful job in providing her readers with additional resources for Wordpress themes, plugins and mentions what she personally uses and recommends. Also she introduces her readers to an excellent hosting company, Hostgator. While going through her book I actually had to contact Hostgator because I was transferring my domain from another company, and that in itself was like pulling teeth - not fun and many hours spent on the phone. However, Hostgator's customer service is impeccable. They did a really great job of answering my questions and addressing my needs, especially after explaining to them that I was not an experienced web developer. What really blew me away was the author herself. I have gone to Sarah's website, wordpress2go.com, reviewed her resources and recommendations and personally contacted her with additional questions. She was very prompt in her responses and did a wonderful job answering my questions. There are so many different books on Wordpress, but this is the one to get if you want to get a basic, not too technical but very clear idea about how to use this wonderful platform to create websites. Even better that when you contact the author herself she responds in a timely manner. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #576,833 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #30 in Blogging & Blogs #188 in Web Design (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 883 Reviews | ## Images ![WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61W9kzAOUlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great tool for getting started with WordPress *by B***M on June 13, 2013* With this book in hand, I finally tackled a job I'd been putting off for months - converting my old hand-built website to a WordPress.org site. It involved changing hosts, since my previous provider didn't offer a WordPress installation, and frankly that intimidated me more than a little. Following Ms McHarry's advice (and some other on-line checking), I signed up with Hostgator. After an initial hiccup or two, easily resolved via their customer service, they completely transferred my site from my old provider to Hostgator. The WP installation was very easy and straightforward to do myself. This book provides an excellent basic overview of how WP works and how to set up your site with pages and posts, categories, widgets, plug-ins, comment moderation, etc. I appreciated her suggestions for plug-ins to add and how to set them up. Overall, I found the book well-written, and appropriately targeted for her stated audience - beginners with basic familiarity with web site structure and usage. It by no means answered every question I had (particularly about making WP pages top level in your domain, or how to convert existing .htm pages to WP). But it gave me a very good foundation to start with, which made it much easier to understand the more detailed on-line WP help or other internet sources. The one slight nit-pick is that she advises you to disable Jetpack early on (I assume to make the tutorial easier to follow), and then never says anything more about this plugin. In fact, I found Jetpack to be immensely useful once I did activate it. Among its many features is an easy-to-add set of social media link buttons. Given the importance of social media these days, I'm a little surprised this was missing from the book, but perhaps it's been added to later editions than the one I purchased. All in all, if you are just getting started on WP, your $5 (Kindle version) will be well-spent on this nice, easy tutorial guide! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just like the Title says *by C***T on January 28, 2013* This book is a must read if you are brand new to Wordpress and have no idea where to begin. Given her background as a programmer, Sarah does a great job of walking you through everything, from setting up your hosting account, to installing WordPress on your domain, to adding pages, posts, changing themes, SEO etc. I originally bought this book because I wanted to do a makeover for my family's Christmas Tree farm website. I had some basic html knowledge but I was looking for a platform that offered WYSISYG features and that wasn't going to involve extensive coding ( that stuff gives me a headache). The Wordpress platform suited my needs and at no point did I feel lost in going through the book. I am a visual person and the fact that she created a separate website ( keeping chickens.net ) as the sample website for her readers to view was a godsend for me. Now I will mention that there are a lot more things she could have included and perhaps elaborated on some of the more desirable features of Wordpress such as plugins, social media etc - but the point of this book is to get the basic idea of how to create a website on your own domain. If you want to take it further, she does a wonderful job in providing her readers with additional resources for Wordpress themes, plugins and mentions what she personally uses and recommends. Also she introduces her readers to an excellent hosting company, Hostgator. While going through her book I actually had to contact Hostgator because I was transferring my domain from another company, and that in itself was like pulling teeth - not fun and many hours spent on the phone. However, Hostgator's customer service is impeccable. They did a really great job of answering my questions and addressing my needs, especially after explaining to them that I was not an experienced web developer. What really blew me away was the author herself. I have gone to Sarah's website, wordpress2go.com, reviewed her resources and recommendations and personally contacted her with additional questions. She was very prompt in her responses and did a wonderful job answering my questions. There are so many different books on Wordpress, but this is the one to get if you want to get a basic, not too technical but very clear idea about how to use this wonderful platform to create websites. Even better that when you contact the author herself she responds in a timely manner. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Helpful *by L***F on September 14, 2012* I got this e-book as a complete WordPress/web newbie after buying a commercial theme and being unable to customize it using the theme's documentation. The e-book quickly took me through how to set up and simply customize a WordPress site based on the WordPress 2011 theme, which got my site up and running in a few hours, which was exactly what I needed. Instructions were clear and the writing good. The e-book ended way too early for me, as I would have liked it to go further into the use of plug-ins and widgets to further customize sites, and placement of images on pages was also described only briefly. Still, a good and useful book, and I recommend it. ## Frequently Bought Together - WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner - WordPress for Beginners 2024: A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering WordPress - Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website: The 100% Not Boring Guide to Setting Up Your Website with Wordpress (Funny You Should Ask: Breaking Down Internet Marketing, Publishing, SEO and More) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1652859-wordpress-to-go-how-to-build-a-wordpress-website-on](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1652859-wordpress-to-go-how-to-build-a-wordpress-website-on) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-05-19*