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Do more with WordPress – in less time!   This is the most complete, coherent, and practical guide to succeeding with WordPress 3.1 and WordPress.com’s hosted services. The authors help you efficiently design, secure, and manage your blog, and add powerful features to attract visitors and build thriving communities. Get comfortable with WordPress, leverage its immense power, and customize it to your unique needs—no matter how large your blog grows, or how complex your content management challenges are!   •     Start your WordPress blog right, to avoid hassle and rework later •     Make your blog’s appearance stand out from the crowd •     Use QuickPress to create new posts in no time •     Make your posts easier to find and more useful to casual visitors •     Revamp your whole blog in minutes with themes •     Use HTML and CSS “power tools” to add advanced blog features •     Engage readers with comments, polls, and ratings •     Manage teams of blog administrators, editors, authors, and contributors •     Use WordPress Statistics and Google Analytics to understand and grow your audience •     Add graphics and media to your blog posts •     Work with a hosting provider that runs WordPress software for you •     Create new blog networks with WordPress Multisite •     Integrate social networking features with BuddyPress •     Find, test, activate, and use powerful third-party plug-ins •     Build your own themes and plug-ins   All In Depth books offer:   •     Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions •     Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can’t fix on your own •     Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style   Learning, reference, problem-solving...the only WordPress book you need!

Table of Contents:
Introduction Welcome Why This Book? How Our Book Is Organized Conventions Used in This Book     Text Conventions     Special Elements   Part I: Getting Started with Your Blog   1 Getting Started with WordPress What Is WordPress?     WordPress Versions in Brief     The WordPress Community     What Does It Cost You? Who Is WordPress For?     Blogger as a Worthy Alternative     WordPress User Case Study 1: Beginners     WordPress User Case Study 2: A Business Blog WordPress Hosting Options     Making the Move     Comparing WordPress.com with WordPress Software Other Ways to Create an Online Presence   2 Starting Your Blog Right Creating Your Blog How Many Visitors Do You Want? Playing the Domain Name Game     Starting with a Custom Domain Name     Adding a Custom Domain Name Later     Using a WordPress.com Domain Name Forever Signing Up     Creating a WordPress Account and a Blog     Taking Advantage of Resources Changing Initial WordPress Settings     General Settings     Writing Settings     Reading Settings     Discussion Settings     Media Settings     Privacy Settings     Sharing Settings Other Settings Subpanels: OpenID, Text Messaging, Domains, Email, and Webhooks WordPress Settings Not in the Settings Menu     Ratings Settings     Post by Email and Post by Voice Settings     Delete Site   3 Creating Your Blog’s Look You’ve Got the Look Introducing Themes     What to Look for in a Theme     Colors     Number of Columns     Fixed-Width or Flexible-Width Columns     Widgets and Other Features     Should You Change Your Theme with CSS?     Listing the Themes     Choosing a Theme Changing a Custom Header Changing mShots and Related Links Adding Available Widgets     Placing Widgets     Preserving Existing Widgets     Adding New Widgets     A Brief Catalog of Widgets     Getting the Most Out of Widgets   Part II: Running Your Blog   4 Creating Your First Post What Is a Blog Entry? Using the QuickPress Tool Adding a New Post     Working on Posts in Full-Screen Mode     Using Basic Formatting Commands     An Example of Text Formatting     Using Hyperlinks as Formatting     Using Secondary Formatting Commands Adding Links     Linking Strategy     Creating a Link Using Shortlinks     Using bit.ly     Using the Get Shortlink Feature Saving, Checking Your Spelling, and Publishing Posts   5 Taking Posts Further Doing More with Posts Anchor Posts Putting Your Posts in Categories     How People Think About Categories     Using and Creating Categories     Managing Categories     Moving Posts Among Categories Tagging Your Posts     Using and Creating Tags     Managing Tags     Changing Tags Associated with Posts Updating Links and Your Blogroll     Adding New Links     Editing Links     Link Categories   6 Using HTML in Your Widgets and Blog How HTML Can Take You Further Power Tools for Better Blogging HTML Basics in WordPress     HTML Tags     The Visual and HTML Tabs     Character Formatting     List Formatting     Linking     The More Tag     HTML Editing in WordPress     What Tags Can I Use? YouTube as an Example of Embedded HTML Using the Text Widget     Content Providers for the Text Widget     Things You Can Do with the Text Widget     A Simple Sample Text Widget   7 Adding Features to Your Blog Making Your Blog Better Adding Users to Your Blog     Understanding WordPress User Roles     Inviting Users and Assigning Roles Adding a Static Page     Planning Static Pages     Designing a Static Page     Creating and Editing Static Pages Adding a Custom Menu     Planning Menus     Creating a Custom Menu Adding Polls   8 Tracking Statistics and Bringing In Visitors Getting More People to Visit Your Blog WordPress Statistics     Why Are You Doing This?     Stats on Your WordPress Administration Page     The Stats Page in WordPress Administration     Analyzing Referrers     Incoming Links     Looking at Search Terms     Top Posts and Pages     Clicks     Blog Stats: Summary Tables How Visitors Can Subscribe to Your Blog     Using the RSS Widget   Part III: Taking Your Blog Further   9 Adding Graphics to Your Blog and Posts Why Add Graphics and Other Media? Copyright and Media Types Putting Pictures in Your Posts Graphics Tips for Bloggers Using the WordPress Image Editor     How Much Should I Scale and Crop?     When Should I Use a Separate Editor? Uploading and Inserting Graphics     Uploading an Image to the Media Library     Using an Image from Your Computer in Your Post     Using an Image from the Media Library in Your Post     Using an Image from the Web in Your Post     Using a Custom Header Image Per Post   10 Adding Upgrades, Audio, and Video Upgrading Your Blog A Quick Description of Upgrades     Custom CSS     Unlimited Private Users     No-ads Upgrade     Space/Audio Upgrades: 5GB, 15GB, and 25GB     VideoPress Upgrade     Domain Names     Global Differences Getting a Good Domain Name     WordPress.com     Domain Names Versus     Custom Domain Names      How Domain Names Work      Choosing a Good Third-Level or Second-Level Domain Name Using Audio in Your Blog     Where to Host Audio     Putting an Audio File in Your Blog Using Video in Your Blog     Where to Host Video     Putting a Video File in Your Blog   Part IV: Building Your Own WordPress Installation   11 Installing and Upgrading WordPress Software Getting It Done for You: Hosted WordPress     Finding a Blog-Friendly Host     Why PHP and MySQL?     Using FTP to Upload Files     Preparing for the Five-Minute Hosted WordPress Installation     The Five-Minute Hosted WordPress Installation     Adding a User to Your Site     Upgrading WordPress Transferring Your WordPress.com Blog Hosting WordPress Yourself     Installing a Test Web Server and MySQL Database     Editing the WordPress Configuration File   12 Taking Control of Your WordPress Site A Quick Tour of the WordPress.org Dashboard Customizing Your Dashboard Getting Social: WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress     Your Own Blog Network: WordPress Multisite     Creating a Social Network with BuddyPress   13 The WordPress Toolkit: Themes and Security Essential Tasks: Themes and Security Shopping for Themes     Finding Free Themes     Finding Premium Themes     Installing and Activating a Theme Securing Your New Website     Security Considerations When Selecting a Theme for Your Blog     Protecting Your Site     Backup and Restore   14 The WordPress Toolkit: Plug-Ins WordPress Modular Architecture Defining a Plug-In Finding Plug-Ins     Finding and Installing Plug-Ins from the Directory     Plug-In Compatibility     Finding Free Plug-Ins Outside the Directory     Finding Premium Plug-Ins Manually Installing and Activating Plug-Ins     Downloading New Plug-Ins     Testing Your New Plug-In     Selection and Activation     Managing and Updating Plug-Ins Making Your Site Mobile-Friendly     Fitting Your Site to the Small Screen     WordPress Mobile Apps Some “Essential” Plug-Ins     Basic WordPress Plug-Ins: Akismet and Hello Dolly     WordPress.com Jetpack: A Starter Kit     Administration and Security     Posting Aids     Statistics     Comments, Forums, and Other Discussions     Advertising/Search Engine Optimization     Links     Multimedia     Social Networks   15 Style Sheets for Building Themes Creating Style Sheets Introducing XHTML     Defining Web Standards     XML and XHTML     Writing HTML-Friendly XHTML in WordPress Introducing CSS     What CSS Is Meant to Do     What Is a Style Sheet?     Anatomy of a Style Sheet Tweaking Theme Style Sheets     When Using an Existing Theme Is Good Enough     Tweaking an Existing Theme with the Theme Editor     Backing Up Themes to Preserve Your Choices     Creating a Child Theme     Some Common Tweaks     Creating a CSS-Based Theme from Scratch   16 PHP Basics: Themes and Plug-ins Introducing PHP     PHP 4 Versus PHP 5     Installing PHP on Your Test or Development Server     Writing PHP Scripts: Basic Syntax MySQL Database Tables for WordPress Customizing Your Site with FUNCTIONS.PHP     Making Your Content More Findable with Custom Taxonomies     Helping Visitors to Get Around Your Site with Custom Menus The Heart of WordPress: The Loop     What Does “The Loop” Do?     Creating a Featured Posts Loop with WP_Query PHP Theme Templates     The Index Template     The Sidebar Template     The Header Template     The Footer Template Examining an Existing Plug-In Submitting to the WordPress Plugin Directory     Why Not Submit to the Plugin Directory?     Submitting to the Plugin Directory   Part V: Appendixes   A WordPress.com Versus WordPress.org Choosing the Right WordPress for You Naming of Parts Choosing WordPress.org     Making Money with Your Blog     Automattic’s Ads on Your Site     Tapping the WordPress Community     Getting the Right Host Choosing WordPress.com   B WordPress Documentation Finding Your Way Through the Online Documents The WordPress Codex Problems with WordPress Documentation Using Google to Access WordPress Documentation   C Examples of WordPress Blogs Why Look at Famous Blogs? XXL Surfin’ Safari Master of Arts in Teaching at USC   D Examples of WordPress.com Blogs Equal Representation for .commies Famous Quotes The Outland Institute Music at SFSU   E WordPress Site Maps Navigating the WordPress Sites Navigating WordPress.com     Home Page: http://wordpress.com     Support Options: http://en.support.wordpress.com     Forums: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/     Free Features: http://en.wordpress.com/features     Premium Features: http://en.wordpress.com/products     VIP Services: http://vip.wordpress.com     Theme Showcase: http://theme.wordpress.com     Popular Tags/Hot Topics: http://en.wordpress.com/tags     News: http://en.blog.wordpress.com     Stats     About Us: http://en.wordpress.com/about     Advanced Services: http://en.wordpress.com/advanced-services Navigating WordPress.org     Home Page: http://wordpress.org     Showcase: http://wordpress.org/showcase     Themes, Plug-Ins, and Places to Complain: http://wordpress.org/extend     The World of WordPress: http://wordpress.org/about     Latest from the Developers: http://wordpress.org/news     Getting Help from Your Peers: http://wordpress.org/support     Finding a Host: http://wordpress.org/hosting      Downloading WordPress: http://wordpress.org/download     Learning from the Sources on WordPress.tv: http://wordpress.tv/   F Importing Content from Other Systems Direct Import into WordPress     Transferring from Blogger/BlogSpot     Transferring from LiveJournal     Transferring from Movable Type/TypePad     Transferring from Posterous     Transferring from Textpattern Indirect Transfer     Transferring from an RSS Feed     Transferring from (X)HTML Wordpress   G Writing SEO-Friendly Blog Posts Know Your Purpose Use Keywords Get Links Use Tags and Categories Consider Using META Tags Try Using Plug-Ins Living in the Zone   Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780132695558
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0132695553
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 527


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