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Introduction
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.
What this book covers
Chapter 1 , Introduction to WordPress, explains how WordPress is an excellent software that can run your website (blog or not). It's packed with excellent features, and is so flexible that it can really do anything you want, and it has a wealth of online resources. Additionally, it's super easy-to-use, and you need no special skills or prior experience to use it. Last but not least, it is free!
Chapter 2 , Getting Started, explains how to install WordPress on a remote server, change the basic default settings of your blog, write posts, and comment on those posts.
Chapter 3 , Creating Blog Content, teaches everything you need to know to add content to your blog and manage that content, be it about posts, categories and comments, or tags, spam, and excerpts.
Chapter 4, Pages, Plugins, Image Galleries Menus, and More, explores all of the content WordPress can manage that's not directly about blogging. You can also learn about static pages, menus, bookmark links, the media library, image galleries, plugins, and more.
Chapter 5, Choosing and Installing Themes, describes how to manage the basic look of your WordPress website. You also learn where to find themes, why they are useful, and how to implement new themes on your WordPress website.
Chapter 6, Developing Your Own Theme, explains how to make your own theme. With just the most basic HTML and CSS abilities, you can create a design and turn it into a fully functional WordPress theme.
Chapter 7, Feeds and Podcasting, explains what an RSS feed is and how to make feeds available for our WordPress blog. It also explores how to syndicate a whole blog or just posts within a certain category, and how to create your own podcast with or without the help of plugins.
Chapter 8, Developing Plugins and Widgets, teaches everything you need to know about creating basic plugins and widgets, how to structure the PHP file, where to put your functions, and how to use hooks. It also teaches about adding management pages and adding a widget that is related to a plugin.
Chapter 9, Community Blogging, explains how to manage a group of users working with a single blog, which is a community of users. Community blogging can play an important role in a user group, or a news website. It also explains how to manage the different levels of privileges for users in a community.
Chapter 10, Creating a Non-Blog Website, explores designing and building a basic theme that focuses primarily on non-blog content. It also creates multiple widget areas, multiple menu areas, and a smooth slider to the homepage.
Chapter 11, Administrator's Reference, covers many of the common administrative tasks you may face when you're managing a WordPress-driven website. This includes backing up your database and files, moving your WordPress installation from one server or folder to another, and doing general problem-solving and troubleshooting.
Who this book is 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.
