WordPress Bible (eBook)

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