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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!
Synopsis
WordPress has grown into the #1 blogging tool in its category: several million bloggers have downloaded this powerful open source software, and millions more are using WordPress.com's hosted services. Thirty-two of Technorati's Top 100 blogs now use WordPress. WordPress InDepth, 2/e, is a comprehensive reference for everyone who wants to use either WordPress or WordPress.com more effectively -- regardless of their experience with WordPress or with blogging. It offers comprehensive guidance for every aspect of using WordPress -- from downloading, installing, and securing it through blog design, templates, themes, posting entries, working with comments and email, and managing WordPress blogs. WordPress software has moved from Version 2.9 to Version 3.0 and this new edition has been fully updated to reflect the changes, including: -New look. The software has a more sophisticated look. Some menu items have been moved around, and the font is different. -Menus editor. WordPress now allows users to create and manage menus -Graphics editor. -New default theme. The look and functionality of the default theme have changed -Merger of WordPress and WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU) -Use of WordPress as a CMS.
Synopsis
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 About the Author
Bud Smith wrote his first book for Que about buying computers fifteen years ago—and had
to do his online research for it using dial-up Internet. Since then, he’s lived and worked in
Silicon Valley; London, England; Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand; San Francisco and
Oakland, California, and written a dozen more books. And he does most of his online work at
broadband speeds—except when he’s using the Web on his cell phone, which is as slow as his
old dial-up modem. Bud runs a WordPress-based blog at RunawayDaily.com.
Michael McCallister is devoted to the idea that technology need not be feared and can be mastered
by anyone. He has been writing about technology in general, and open source software
in particular, for the whole of the twenty-first century, and part of the previous century, too.
He tries to help build the open source community, from which derives WordPress and so much
else that is good, true, and pure in life (the parts of life that run on computers, anyway). While
Bud has moved hither and yon, Michael has lived the relatively boring, stable life in the central
United States (Milwaukee, Madison, and Boulder). Michael has been running “Notes from the
Metaverse” on WordPress since 2006 at metaverse.wordpress.com. Find out more at www.
michaelmccallister.com.
Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started with Your Blog
Chapter 1: Getting Started with WordPress
Chapter 2: Starting Your Blog Right
Chapter 3: Creating Your Blog's Look
Part II: Running Your Blog
Chapter 4: Creating Your First Post
Chapter 5: Taking Posts Further
Chapter 6: Using HTML in Your Widgets and Blog
Chapter 7: Adding Features to Your Blog
Chapter 8: Tracking Statistics and Bringing In Visitors
Part III: Taking Your Blog Further
Chapter 9: Adding Graphics to Your Posts
Chapter 10: Adding Upgrades, Audio, and Video
Part IV: Building Your Own WordPress Installation
Chapter 11: Installing and Upgrading WordPress Software
Chapter 12: The WordPress Toolkit: Themes
Chapter 13: The WordPress Toolkit: Plug-Ins
Chapter 14: Style Sheets for Building Themes
Chapter 15: PHP Basics: Themes and Plug-Ins
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: WordPress.com Versus WordPress.org
Appendix B: WordPress Documentation
Appendix C: Examples of WordPress Blogs
Appendix D: Examples of WordPress.com Blogs
Appendix E: WordPress Site Maps
Appendix F: Importing Content from Other Systems