WordPress Bible

Aaron Brazell is a WordPress expert, core contributor, and developer currently responsible for directing and developing a WordPress premium platform for customers. His WordPress knowledge extends back to the early days of the software, and he has worked on large-scale WordPress installations from both a technical/scaling perspective to complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the software plugin API. He maintains a business and technology blog, Technosailor.com. Mark Jaquith is one of the lead developers of WordPress and an independent Web services consultant. With over four and a half years of extensive experience with WordPress, he has written several popular plugins and contributed countless patches to the core WordPress engine.

Part I: Getting Started with WordPress 1 Chapter 1: Learning About WordPress 3 Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring WordPress 23 Chapter 3: WordPress, SEO, and Social Media Marketing 43 Chapter 4: Finding Help in the WordPress Support System 63 Part II: Working with Plugins 77 Chapter 5: Extending WordPress with Plugins 79 Chapter 6: Building Widgets and Navigation Menus 115 Chapter 7: Understanding the WordPress Database Class 137 Chapter 8: Dissecting the Loop and WP-Query 159 Part III: Working with Themes and Template Tags 179 Chapter 9: Using Free or Premium Themes 181 Chapter 10: Understanding the Template File Hierarchy 195 Chapter 11: Adding JavaScript and CSS to Themes 225 Chapter 12: Dissecting the Comment Loop, Template Tags, and Theme Best Practices 245 Part IV: Creating Content 269 Chapter 13: Navigating the Content Production Experience 271 Chapter 14: Using Offline Editors 291 Part V: Keeping Up with the Joneses: Maintenance and Upgrades 311 Chapter 15: Performing Automatic Upgrades 313 Chapter 16: Moving to WordPress and Backing It Up 323 Chapter 17: WordPress Maintenance and Security 349 Chapter 18: Caching Strategy to Ensure WordPress Scales 369 Chapter 19: Understanding WordPress Roles and Capabilities 389 Part VI: Alternate Uses for WordPress 399 Chapter 20: Using WordPress for Alternative Blogging 401 Chapter 21: WordPress as a Content Management System 423 Part VII: Looking at the WordPress Ecosystem 437 Chapter 22: Leveraging WordPress Multisite Functionality 439 Chapter 23: Adding User Forums with bbPress 459 Chapter 24: Creating Your Own Social Network with BuddyPress 469 Chapter 25: Using BackPress as a Development Framework 485 Chapter 26: WordPress.com and the Automattic Products 495 Chapter 27: Leveraging Automattic Products 513 Part VIII: Appendixes 529 Appendix A: WordPress Hook Reference 531 Appendix B: Template Tags 589 Appendix C: WordPress Hosting 643 Appendix D: WordPress Vendors and Professional Services 653 Appendix E: WordPress in Government 665 Appendix F: WordPress in Major Media 675 Appendix G: The General Public License 683 Index 689