WordPress 2.7 Complete: Create Your Own Complete Blog or Website from Scratch With Wordpress - Brossura

Hayder, Hasin; Silver, April Hodge

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ISBN 10: 184719656X ISBN 13: 9781847196569

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2009

Riassunto

Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, the book takes you through the essential tasks required to create a feature-rich blog as quickly as possible. From initial setup to customizing modules, each task is explained in a clear, practical way using an example blog developed through the book. This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who are slightly more advanced. It's for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner, and it's also for people who want to learn how to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress web site. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to produce an impressive blog.

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L'autore

Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and expert in developing localized applications. He is currently working as a Technical Director in Trippert Labs and managing the local branch in Bangladesh. Beside his full time job, Hasin writes his blog at http://hasin.wordpress.com, writes article in different websites and maintains his open source framework Orchid at http://orchid.phpxperts.net. Hasin lives in Bangladesh with his wife Ayesha and his son, Afif.

Contenuti

Chapter 1 – Introduction to WordPress
This chapter covers all about blogging, including what a blog is, the common terms using in blogging, and what they mean, what WordPress has to offer to a blogger, and why to choose it.

Chapter 2 – Getting Started
This chapter covers choosing where to build your WordPress web site, upgrading from an older version of WordPress and getting familiar with the Administration Panel.

Chapter 3 – Blogging Your Heart Out
This chapter covers full process of creating new posts for your blog, including applying categories and tags to your post, using the rich text editor, controlling the timestamp, and also more advanced options, including excerpt and trackbacks. It also covers controlling commenting and discussion on your blog, as well as keeping out comment spam.

Chapter 4 – Pages, Images, Plug-ins, and more...
Blog posts aren't the only content in your blog. You also can control pages of static information, upload and manage images on your site, keep a list of bookmarked links and add plug-ins.

Chapter 5 – Finding and Installing Themes
Learn where to find existing themes online in a variety of reliable places, how to choose which theme is right for your web site or blog, and the process of installing and using your new theme. This chapter also covers enabling and using widgets in your theme.

Chapter 6 – Developing your own theme
From soup to nuts, this chapter covers the process of creating your own theme, including setting up your design to accommodate your blogging goals, converting your initial build into an authentic WordPress theme, creating templates within your theme to serve different purposes for your blog, making your theme widget-friendly, and sharing your theme with the WordPress community.

Chapter 7 – Feeds and Podcasting
This chapter explains what feeds are and how to add them to your WordPress web site, tracking subscribers to your blog, and aggregating feeds from other sources on your blog. This chapter also covers using your WordPress web site to create a podcast (it's easy!).

Chapter 8 – Developing Widgets and Plug-ins
For the more advanced user, this chapter will show you how to create plug-ins and widgets that will work with any installation of WordPress. There are step-by-step instructions so you don't get lost along the way.

Chapter 9 – Community Blogging
This chapter covers managing and handling a mutli-user blog, including a detailed outline of the roles and capabilities included in WordPress.

Chapter 10 – WordPress as a CMS
This chapter covers, from start to finish, using WordPress to create a non-blog web site. It includes discussion of designing your theme, getting set up, creating custom pages that display post content in non-blog ways, customizing the homepage to contain dynamic content, and creating a news page.

Chapter 11 – Administrator's Reference
This chapter covers all of the basic things a WordPress administrator needs to know, from system requirements, to a detailed step-by-step discussion of installing WordPress, moving your WordPress web site from one place to another, backing up, common template tags, and basic troubleshooting.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 184719656X
• ISBN 13: 9781847196569
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile