Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Plugin Basics
Chapter 2: Generating Content
Chapter 3: Sharing Content
Chapter 4: Style and Function
Chapter 5: Building a Community with BuddyPress
Chapter 6: Generating Revenue
Chapter 7: Working with Multiple Authors
Chapter 8: Security and Maintenance
Chapter 9: Power Admin
Chapter 10: Time for Action
Index
- Chapter 1: Plugin Basics
- Safety first
- Automatic install versus manual install
- Automatic plugin installation
- Plugin detail
- Downloading, unpacking, installing
- Activating the plugin
- Connection Information required
- Manual installation
- Manually installing a plugin with a Mac
- Transferring a plugin
- Manually installing a plugin on Windows
- Manually installing a plugin with a Mac
- Creating a bookmark with WinSCP
- Transferring a plugin to your blog
- Activating your plugin
- Finding a plugin's settings
- How plugins work
- Managing plugins
- Keeping your plugins up-to-date
- Learn by tinkering
- WordPress plugin API
- PHP references
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Troubleshooting plugins
- Editing plugins
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Generating Content
- GD Star Rating
- Fixing the default ratings
- Turning off Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down on posts
- Turning off Star Ratings on comments
- Fixing the default ratings
- Better Tag Cloud
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
- My Page Order
- Get Recent Comments
- Viper's Video Quicktags
- WP Greet Box
- NextGen Gallery
- Setting up your first gallery
- Adding your gallery to a post or a page
- Zemanta
- CForms II
- CForms administration
- Modifying the default form
- Adding your form to a page, post, or widget
- Advanced CForms customizations
- File upload settings
- Messages, text, and button label
- Core Form Admin / e-mail options
- Admin e-mail message options
- Auto confirmation
- Multi-part / multi-page forms
- Tell-A-Friend form support
- WP comment feature
- Third-party read-notification support
- MapPress—Google maps
- Adding a map to a post or page
- WP-O-Matic
- Creating your first campaign
- Adding feeds
- Categories
- Understanding WP-O-Matic's options
- Creating your first campaign
- Search unleashed
- Setting up your search index
- Creating your first index
- WP Web Scrapper
- Copyright warning
- Adding a scrapping
- Summary
- GD Star Rating
- Chapter 3: Sharing Content
- TweetMeme
- Setting up TweetMeme
- Wordbook
- WP Download Manager
- Adding a new download
- Inserting a download into a post
- Twiogle Twitter Commenter
- ShareThis
- Setting up ShareThis
- Wibiya Bar - Beta
- Installing the Wibiya bar
- WP Facebook Connect
- Creating an app ID for your blog
- Adding the connect button to your comments
- Twitter Friendly Links
- Feedburner Feedsmith
- Burning your feed
- Create a Google account
- Verify your blog's feed URL
- Burn your feed
- Name your feed
- Configuring WP-Feedburner
- Burning your feed
- SendIt
- SendIt overview
- Creating your first newsletter
- Adding subscribers
- Automatic import
- SendIt Widget
- Sending a mail
- Subscribe-Remind
- Sociable
- Understanding social options
- Disabling sprite usage for images
- Disabling alpha mask on the share toolbar
- Tagline
- Position
- Use Text Links
- Image Directory
- Use Thisbox/iFrame on links
- Open in New Window
- Awe.sm
- Understanding social options
- Summary
- TweetMeme
- Chapter 4: Style and Function
- About Me Widget
- Setting up your About Me Widget
- Category Posts Widget
- After the Deadline
- Using After the Deadline
- WordPress Mobile Pack
- Mobile themes
- Browser detection and domain detection
- Important Mobile Themes settings
- WPTouch
- Web App icon
- Page icons
- Creating your own icon
- Push notifications
- WP-Prowl
- Setting up WP-Prowl
- Favicons
- Setting up your Favicon
- Picking from the gallery
- Use your Gravatar as Favicon
- Using a remote icon
- Setting up your Favicon
- Theme Switcher
- Advanced marketing use
- Image Widget
- Post Layout
- Inserting content
- Breadcrumb NavXT
- Inserting the Breadcrumb
- Basic Breadcrumb
- Inserting the Breadcrumb
- Exec-PHP
- Using Exec-PHP to list your latest tweets
- Summary
- About Me Widget
- Chapter 5: Building a Community with BuddyPress
- Before setting up BuddyPress
- Sticking to your Community Purpose
- BuddyPress
- BuddyPress features
- Smooth member signup
- Twitter-like posting
- Profiles
- Member communication
- Forums
- Groups
- Members Directory
- BuddyPress themes
- Cosmic Buddy
- BP Nicey
- Sense and Sensibility BP 1.6
- More themes
- BuddyPress plugins
- Group Documents
- TweetStream
- Connecting to Twitter
- BuddyPress Album+
- Setting up your Community Groups
- Step 1: Group details
- Step 2: Settings
- Step 3: Avatar
- Tips for driving traffic to your community
- Friends and family
- Social networks
- Google AdWords
- Google search
- Summary
- Before setting up BuddyPress
- Chapter 6: Generating Revenue
- Donation Can
- Zazzle Widget
- Setting up the Zazzle Widget
- AmazonFeed
- Setting up AmazonFeed
- Configuration
- Post / page specific items
- Setting up AmazonFeed
- Advertising Manager
- Creating a Google AdSense Ad
- Creating your first ad in Advertising Manager
- Adding the Widget
- iTunes Affiliate Link Maker (iTALM)
- Adding links to a post
- WP e-Commerce, FREE Version
- Setting up WP e-Commerce
- Adding a digital product
- Product Detail
- Categories and Tags
- Price and Stock Control
- Shipping Details
- Product Images
- Product Download
- Setting up your Payment Gateway
- Web Invoice—invoicing and billing for WordPress
- Setting up an invoice
- Select the client
- Client Information
- Recurring Billing
- Invoice Details
- Publish
- Setting up an invoice
- My Ad Manager
- Creating the Advertise Here Page
- Adding the Widget
- Setting up your House Ads
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Working with Multiple Authors
- Authors Widget
- Author Spotlight
- Styling the Author widget
- Blog Metrics
- Cimy User Extra Fields
- Pre-Publish Reminder
- Edit Flow
- Audit Trail
- WP-CMS Post Control
- Guest Blogger
- Adding a new article import
- Subscribe to Author Posts Feed
- Author Advertising
- Setting up Author Advertising widget
- The Author Page
- Advertising code
- Setting up Author Advertising widget
- Co-Author Plus
- Private Messages for WordPress
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Security and Maintenance
- Security basics
- Passwords
- Update often
- Back up often
- Limit Login Attempts
- Setting up Limit Login Attempts
- Lockout
- Secure WordPress
- Secure WordPress's options explained
- Akismet
- Bad Behavior
- Upload+
- WP Security Scan
- Latest version
- Table prefix
- Hiding Version # and Meta Tag ID
- WordPress DB Errors
- .htaccess in Admin folder
- WP-DBManager
- Understanding your database's health
- What is a database?
- What is MySQL?
- How does WordPress use MySQL?
- Repair, Optimize, and Backup
- WP-DB-Backup
- WordPress Backup
- Maintenance Mode
- Customizing the maintenance notice
- WP-Optimize
- Quick Cache
- Quick Cache Options explained
- Error Reporting
- Auto Delete old log files
- Configuration
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Power Admin
- Fluency Admin
- Quick key access
- Styling the login screen
- StatPress
- Key datapoints
- Latest Referrers
- Search Terms
- Operating Systems
- Browsers Used
- Spy View
- Key datapoints
- 404 Notifier
- Shockingly Big IE6 Warning
- Admin Links Widget
- WordPress Admin Bar
- Code Editor
- WordPress Admin QuickMenu
- Setting up your links
- Email Users
- E-mail ideas
- Exclusive e-mailer
- Special deals and offers
- Helping a cause
- Tips and tricks
- E-mail ideas
- Broken Link Checker
- Admin Management Xtended
- Understanding the interface
- Menu Manager
- Simple Tags
- Configuring third party Taxonomy Services
- Redirection
- Widget Logic
- Commonly used logic
- Summary
- Fluency Admin
- Chapter 10: Time for Action
- The open source business model
- WordPress for prototyping
- Real business models with WordPress
- Selling digital goods
- Selling themes
- Selling plugins
- Selling advertising spots
- Job board
- Corporate blogging software
- Hosting WordPress
- Continuing education
- Summary
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