WordPress Bible (eBook)

Aaron Brazell is a leading WordPress and social mediaconsultant, with clients ranging from enterprise software companiesto small- and medium-sized businesses. He has worked on large-scaleWordPress installations from both a technical/scaling perspectiveto complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the softwareplugin API. He maintains a large business and technology blog inthe Washington D.C. area, Technosailor.com.Mark Jaquith is one of the lead WordPress core developersand an independent Web services consultant. He has consulted formajor clients through his company, Covered Web Services, and is theauthor of several popular WordPress plugins, including Subscribe toComments and Page Links To.

Foreword.Preface.Acknowledgments.Part I: Getting Started with WordPress.Chapter 1: Learning About WordPress.Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring WordPress.Chapter 3: WordPress, SEO, and Social Media Marketing.Part II: Working with Plugins.Chapter 5: Extending WordPress with Plugins.Chapter 6: Widgetizing WordPress.Chapter 7: Understanding the WordPress Database Class.Chapter 8: Dissecting the Loop and WP_Query.Part III: Working with Themes and Template Tags.Chapter 9: Using Free or Premium Themes.Chapter 10: Understanding the Template File Hierarchy.Chapter 11: Adding JavaScript and CSS to Themes.Chapter 12: Dissecting the Comment Loop, Template Tags, andTheme Best Practices.Part IV: Creating Content.Chapter 13: Navigating the Content Production Experience.Chapter 14: Using Offline Editors.Part V: Keeping Up with the Joneses: Maintenance andUpgrades.Chapter 15: Performing Automatic Upgrades.Chapter 16: Moving to WordPress and Backing It Up.Chapter 17: WordPress Maintenance and Security.Chapter 18: Caching Strategy to Ensure WordPress Scales.Chapter 19: Understanding WordPress Roles and Capabilities.Part VI: Alternate Uses for WordPress.Chapter 20: Using WordPress for Alternative Blogging.Chapter 21: WordPress as a Content Management System.Part VII: Looking at the WordPress Ecosystem.Chapter 22: Leveraging WordPress MU and Multi-BlogFunctionality.Chapter 23: Adding User Forums with bbPress.Chapter 24: Creating Your Own Social Network withBuddyPress.Chapter 25: Using BackPress as a Development Framework.Chapter 26: WordPress.com and the Automattic Products.Chapter 27: Leveraging Automattic Products.Part VIII: Appendixes.Appendix A: WordPress Hook Reference.Appendix B: Template Tags.Appendix C: What About PHP 5?Appendix D: WordPress Hosting.Appendix E: WordPress Vendors and Professional Services.Appendix F: WordPress in Government.Appendix G: WordPress in Major Media.Appendix H: The General Public License.Index.