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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!
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
