Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to WordPress
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Creating Blog Content
Chapter 4: Pages, Plugins, Image Galleries Menus, and More
Chapter 5: Choosing and Installing Themes
Chapter 6: Developing Your Own Theme
Chapter 7: Feeds and Podcasting
Chapter 8: Developing Plugins and Widgets
Chapter 9: Community Blogging
Chapter 10: Creating a Non-Blog Website
Chapter 11: Administrator's Reference
Index
- Chapter 1: Introduction to WordPress
- What is WordPress?
- Use it for a blog or a website
- Blog: Definition and common terms
- Common terms
- Why choose WordPress?
- A long time in refining
- Active in development
- Large community of contributors
- Amazingly extendable
- Detailed feature list
- New feature list since 2.7
- Learning more
- Online WordPress resources
- WordPress news
- The Codex
- Support from other users
- Theme and plugin directories
- WordPress.com
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Getting Started
- Where to build your WordPress website
- Using WordPress.com
- Installing WordPress manually
- Preparing the environment
- Downloading WordPress
- Upgrading from an earlier version of WordPress
- Uploading the files
- Installing WordPress
- Learning more
- The WP Admin panel
- Changing general blog information
- Your first post
- Your first comment
- Retrieving a lost password
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Creating Blog Content
- WP Admin conventions
- Lists of items
- Posting on your blog
- Adding a simple post
- Common post options
- Categories and tags
- Images in your posts
- Using the Visual editor versus the HTML editor
- Drafts, timestamps, and managing posts
- Advanced post options
- Excerpt and the MORE tag
- Trackbacks
- Discussion
- Custom Fields
- Protecting content
- Pretty permalinks
- Additional writing options
- Press This
- Posting via e-mail
- Discussion on your blog—comments
- Adding a comment
- Discussion settings
- Submission, notification, and moderation settings
- When to moderate or blacklist a comment
- Avatar display settings
- Moderating comments
- How to eliminate comment spam
- Getting a WordPress.com API key
- Activating Akismet
- Adding and managing categories
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Pages, Plugins, Image Galleries Menus, and More
- Pages
- Adding a page
- Managing pages
- Menus
- Adding a Menu
- Displaying a Menu
- Widgets
- Links
- Adding a new link
- Displaying links
- Managing links and categories
- Media library
- Adding plugins
- Finding your plugin
- Installing and activating the plugin
- Auto-installation
- Download, (unzip?), upload
- Configuring and/or implementing—if necessary
- Adding an image gallery
- Choosing a post or page
- Uploading images
- Using a lightbox plugin
- Making your website mobile-friendly
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Choosing and Installing Themes
- Finding themes
- WordPress Theme Directory
- Finding more themes
- Some theme basics
- What makes a theme?
- Factors to consider when choosing a theme
- Installing and changing themes
- Adding a theme within the WP Admin
- Downloading, extracting, uploading
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Developing Your Own Theme
- Setting up your design
- Designing your theme to be WordPress-friendly
- Converting your design to code
- Examining the HTML structure
- Examining the CSS
- Converting your build into a theme
- Creating the theme folder
- Adding WordPress content
- The <head> tag
- The header and footer
- The sidebar
- Main column—the loop
- Creating templates within your theme
- Understanding the WordPress theme
- Breaking it up
- header.php
- footer.php
- sidebar.php
- Your four template files
- Archive template
- Single template
- Page template
- Generated classes for body and post
- Other WordPress templates
- Creating and using a custom template
- Making your theme widget-friendly
- Making sure your sidebar is one big <ul> tag
- Adding functions.php
- Adding conditional code to sidebar
- Adding some widgets
- Further widgetizing options
- Learning more
- Enabling a menu in your theme
- Creating a child theme
- Creating the new theme directory
- Creating the stylesheet
- Using your child theme
- Sharing your theme
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Feeds and Podcasting
- Feed basics
- Feed readers
- Learning more
- Your built-in WordPress feeds
- Adding feed links
- Feeds for the whole website
- Feeds for categories
- Feeds for post comments
- Tracking subscribers with FeedBurner
- Burn your feed on FeedBurner
- FeedBurner plugin
- Podcasting
- Creating a podcast
- Record yourself
- Make a post
- Dedicated podcasting
- Podcasting plugins
- Using a service to host audio files for free
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Developing Plugins and Widgets
- Plugins
- Plugin code requirements
- Basic plugin—adding link icons
- Naming and organizing the plugin files
- Writing the plugin's core functions
- Adding hooks to the plugin
- Trying out the plugin
- Adding an admin page
- Adding management page functions
- Modifying the regex() function
- Adding hooks
- Trying out the plugin
- Plugin with DB access—capturing searched words
- Getting the plugin to talk to the database
- Adding management page functions
- Adding hooks
- Trying out the plugin
- Learning more
- Widgets
- Recent posts from a Category Widget
- Naming the widget
- Widget structure
- Widget initiation function
- Widget form function
- Widget save function
- Widget print function
- Initiate and hook up the widget
- Final widget code
- Trying out the widget
- Learning more
- Bundling a widget with a plugin
- Shortcodes
- How do shortcodes work?
- Creating a simple shortcode
- Adding options to the shortcode
- Enabling shortcodes in widgets
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Community Blogging
- Concerns for a multiuser blog
- Users roles and abilities
- Administrator
- Editor
- Author
- Contributor
- Subscriber
- Managing users
- Enabling users to self-register
- Learning more
- User management plugins
- Creating a multi-site website
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Creating a Non-Blog Website
- Our client is a bookstore
- The Design
- New features covered in this chapter
- Introducing the initial theme
- What we are starting with
- Initial theme files and functionality
- functions.php
- header.php
- footer.php
- index.php
- Setting up the starter content
- Checking out the frontend
- Adding plugins
- Contact Form 7
- April's Call Posts
- Smooth Slider
- Installing the plugin
- Adding content to the plugin
- Adding the plugin to your theme
- Creating a custom post type: book
- Registering a new post type
- Adding labels
- Adding messages
- Creating book template files
- Registering and using a custom taxonomy
- Customizing the admin display
- Finalizing the bookstore website
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Administrator's Reference
- System requirements
- Enabling permalinks
- The importance of backing up
- Easy, quick, frequent content backups
- Backing up everything
- Verifying your backups
- Upgrading WordPress
- What about the built-in upgrader?
- Do it gradually for a big jump
- Steps for upgrading
- Backing up your database
- Backing up your WordPress files
- Put WordPress in Maintenance Mode
- Deactivating all your plugins
- Downloading and extracting WordPress
- Deleting old files
- Uploading the new files
- Running the WordPress upgrade program
- Updating permalinks and .htaccess
- Installing updated plugins and themes
- Migrating or restoring a WordPress site
- Setting file permissions
- What are file permissions?
- Permissions for WordPress
- How to set permissions
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting during installation
- Headers already sent
- Page comes with only PHP code
- Cannot connect to MySQL database
- Basic troubleshooting
- Cannot see posts
- Making a site totally private
- I don't receive the e-mailed passwords
- Tips for theme development
- Template tags
- Class styles generated by WordPress
- Learning more
- Summary
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