WordPress

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes

Chuck Tomasi

Kreg Steppe

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

Plain English definitions explain new terms

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly build free blogs with WordPress.com
• Customize your blog to fit your message
• Create powerful text, audio, and video content
• Moderate comments and build communities
• Set up RSS feeds
• Host your own blog with WordPress.org software
• Deliver content via iPhone and BlackBerry
• Streamline publishing with third-party tools

Register your book at informit.com/register for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

Category:  Internet

Covers:  WordPress 3.0

User Level:  Beginning

Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you’ve set it up.

In Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you’ll learn how to:

• Install and get your WordPress site running.
• Set up your site to ensure it can easily grow with you and your readers.
• Be the master of user accounts.
• Manage your site with the WordPress Dashboard and extend its capabilities with plug-ins.
• Make the most of images.
• Work with pages, templates, and links and—of course—publish your posts.
• Use custom post types and taxonomies to bend WordPress to your will.
• Deal with comments—if you even want readers commenting at all.
• Find a theme and make it your own.

Create your own complete website or blog from scratch with WordPress

• Learn everything you need for creating your own feature-rich website or blog from scratch
• Clear and practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress
• In-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication
• Explore WordPress as a fully functional content management system
• Clear, easy-to-follow, concise; rich with examples and screenshots

In Detail

Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

Wordpress 3 Complete will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website.

WordPress 3 Complete begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website.

Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site - from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you'll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website.

Once you're done with WordPress 3 Complete, you'll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site.

This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and enhance your blog or website using WordPress.

What you will learn from this book

• Install WordPress in a variety of environments
• Upgrade WordPress from older installations
• Add images, videos, tags, and categories to blog posts
• Personalize and control the content of your website
• Manage the look and feel of your site with customized themes
• Allow users to have a variety of control over content
• Link your website to the outside world through feeds, syndication, and podcasting
• Create custom post types to manage books, movies, people, or anything else you can imagine
• Design and create your own themes and plugins from scratch

Approach

This a comprehensive step-by-step tutorial packed with screenshots and examples for easy and quick pickup.

Who this book is written for

This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who have slightly more advanced knowledge of WordPress. If you are new to blogging and want to create your own blog or website in a simple and straightforward manner, then this book is for you. It is also for people who want to learn to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress website.

You do 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 website.

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easilyâ€"and better yet, it's free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.

Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You'll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.

What you’ll learn

• How to get started with Wordpress, create new content, and import existing content
• How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more
• How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting
• How to create themes, widgets, and plugins
• How to publish, move, maintain, and secure your WordPress sites

Who this book is for

This book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: About WordPress
Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading
Chapter 3: Dashboard and Settings
Chapter 4: Working with Content
Chapter 5: Importing Content
Chapter 6: Creating a Basic Theme 
Chapter 7: Creating an Advanced Theme
Chapter 8: Creating Widgets 
Chapter 9: Creating Plugins
Chapter 10: Users and Roles
Chapter 11: Performance and Security
Chapter 12: Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields
Chapter 13: Setting up the Network
Appendix 1: Plugin Index
Appendix 2: Theme Functions
Appendix 3: Plugin Recipes

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easilyâ€"and better yet, it's free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.

Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You'll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.

What you’ll learn

• How to get started with Wordpress, create new content, and import existing content
• How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more
• How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting
• How to create themes, widgets, and plugins
• How to publish, move, maintain, and secure your WordPress sites

Who this book is for

This book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: About WordPress
Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading
Chapter 3: Dashboard and Settings
Chapter 4: Working with Content
Chapter 5: Importing Content
Chapter 6: Creating a Basic Theme 
Chapter 7: Creating an Advanced Theme
Chapter 8: Creating Widgets 
Chapter 9: Creating Plugins
Chapter 10: Users and Roles
Chapter 11: Performance and Security
Chapter 12: Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields
Chapter 13: Setting up the Network
Appendix 1: Plugin Index
Appendix 2: Theme Functions
Appendix 3: Plugin Recipes

Create your own complete website or blog from scratch with WordPress

• Learn everything you need for creating your own feature-rich website or blog from scratch
• Clear and practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress
• In-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication
• Explore WordPress as a fully functional content management system
• Clear, easy-to-follow, concise; rich with examples and screenshots

In Detail

Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

Wordpress 3 Complete will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website.

WordPress 3 Complete begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website.

Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site - from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you'll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website.

Once you're done with WordPress 3 Complete, you'll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site.

This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and enhance your blog or website using WordPress.

What you will learn from this book

• Install WordPress in a variety of environments
• Upgrade WordPress from older installations
• Add images, videos, tags, and categories to blog posts
• Personalize and control the content of your website
• Manage the look and feel of your site with customized themes
• Allow users to have a variety of control over content
• Link your website to the outside world through feeds, syndication, and podcasting
• Create custom post types to manage books, movies, people, or anything else you can imagine
• Design and create your own themes and plugins from scratch

Approach

This a comprehensive step-by-step tutorial packed with screenshots and examples for easy and quick pickup.

Who this book is written for

This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who have slightly more advanced knowledge of WordPress. If you are new to blogging and want to create your own blog or website in a simple and straightforward manner, then this book is for you. It is also for people who want to learn to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress website.

You do 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 website.

Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you’ve set it up.

In Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you’ll learn how to:

• Install and get your WordPress site running.
• Set up your site to ensure it can easily grow with you and your readers.
• Be the master of user accounts.
• Manage your site with the WordPress Dashboard and extend its capabilities with plug-ins.
• Make the most of images.
• Work with pages, templates, and links and—of course—publish your posts.
• Use custom post types and taxonomies to bend WordPress to your will.
• Deal with comments—if you even want readers commenting at all.
• Find a theme and make it your own.

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes

Chuck Tomasi

Kreg Steppe

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone!

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

Plain English definitions explain new terms

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

• Quickly build free blogs with WordPress.com
• Customize your blog to fit your message
• Create powerful text, audio, and video content
• Moderate comments and build communities
• Set up RSS feeds
• Host your own blog with WordPress.org software
• Deliver content via iPhone and BlackBerry
• Streamline publishing with third-party tools

Register your book at informit.com/register for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

Category:  Internet

Covers:  WordPress 3.0

User Level:  Beginning

* Enhance the usability and increase visual interest in your WordPress 3.0 site with easy-to-implement jQuery techniques
* Create advanced animations, use the UI plugin to your advantage within WordPress, and create custom jQuery plugins for your site
* Turn your jQuery plugins into WordPress plugins and share with the world
* Implement all of the above jQuery enhancements without ever having to make a WordPress content editor switch over into HTML view