WordPress 2.7 Complete

April has been designing and developing new web sites from scratch since 1999, just before her graduation from Columbia University. Early in her career, she worked for several web companies and startups, including DoubleClick and About.com. Since 2004, she has been self-employed through her company Springthistle Design and has worked with a staggering variety of companies, non-profits, and individuals to realize their web site dreams. In her professional work, April's focus is always on usability, efficiency, flexibility, clean design, and client happiness. WordPress is the best solution for many of Springthistle's Clients, though April also develops custom web applications using PHP and MySQL. More about April's professional work at http://springthistle.com In her free time, April enjoys developing recipes in the kitchen, bicycling, and relaxing with her daughter, dog, and darlin wife. 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.

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.