Wordpress All-in-One For Dummies

Lisa Sabin-Wilson founded E.Webscapes Design Studio, a blog development and design company. Cory Miller provides premium WordPress themes through iThemes. Kevin Palmer owns SocialMediaAnswers.com. Andrea Rennick is a freelance WordPress consultant. Michael Torbert is a WordPress developer and programmer.

Introduction 1 Book I: WordPress Basics 9 Chapter 1: Exploring Basic WordPress Concepts 11 Chapter 2: Exploring the World of Open Source Software 23 Chapter 3: Understanding Development and Release Cycles 33 Chapter 4: Introducing the WordPress Community 41 Chapter 5: Discovering Different Versions of WordPress 53 Book II: Setting Up the WordPress Software 65 Chapter 1: Understanding the System Requirements 67 Chapter 2: Using File Transfer Protocol 77 Chapter 3: Introducing PHP and MySQL 89 Chapter 4: Installing WordPress on Your Web Server 99 Chapter 5: Confi gurations for Optimum Performance and Security 115 Chapter 6: Upgrading WordPress 141 Chapter 7: Backing Up, Packing Up, and Moving to a New Host 151 Book III: Exploring the WordPress Dashboard 167 Chapter 1: Logging In and Taking a Look Around 169 Chapter 2: Customizing Your Dashboard 183 Chapter 3: Exploring Tools and Settings 191 Chapter 4: Managing Users and Multiple Authors 223 Chapter 5: Dealing with Comments and Spam 233 Chapter 6: Building Link Lists 247 Chapter 7: Creating Categories and Tags 257 Book IV: Publishing Your Site with WordPress 269 Chapter 1: Writing Your First Post 271 Chapter 2: Examining the Difference between Posts and Pages 287 Chapter 3: Uploading and Displaying Photos and Galleries 297 Chapter 4: Exploring Podcasting and Video Blogging 309 Chapter 5: Working with Custom Fields 319 Chapter 6: Using WordPress as a Content Management System 333 Book V: Examining SEO and Social Media 357 Chapter 1: Exposing Your Content 359 Chapter 2: Creating a Social-Media Listening Hub 381 Chapter 3: Understanding Analytics 403 Chapter 4: Search Engine Optimization 421 Chapter 5: Exploring Popular SEO Plugins 437 Book VI: Customizing the Look of Your Site 447 Chapter 1: Examining the Default Theme: Twenty Ten 449 Chapter 2: Finding and Installing WordPress Themes 471 Chapter 3: Exploring the Anatomy of a Theme 485 Chapter 4: Customizing Your Theme 517 Chapter 5: Understanding Parent and Child Themes 537 Chapter 6: Digging into Advanced Theme Development 555 Chapter 7: Using Theme Frameworks to Simplify Customization 601 Book VII: Using and Developing Plugins 613 Chapter 1: Introducing WordPress Plugins 615 Chapter 2: Installing and Activating Plugins 633 Chapter 3: Exploring Plugin Options and Settings 647 Chapter 4: Modifying Existing Plugin Code to Your Liking 663 Chapter 5: Creating Simple WordPress Plugins from Scratch 681 Chapter 6: Exploring Plugin Development Best Practices 731 Chapter 7: Plugin Tips and Tricks 741 Book VIII: Running Multiple Sites with WordPress 759 Chapter 1: An Introduction to Multiple Sites 761 Chapter 2: Setting Up and Confi guring Network Features 771 Chapter 3: Becoming a Network Admin 779 Chapter 4: Management of Users and Access Control 799 Chapter 5: Using Network Plugins and Themes 809 Chapter 6: Using Multiple Domains within Your Network 825 Index 841