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Using WordPress
- By Tris Hussey
- Published Sep 7, 2010 by Que. Part of the Using series.
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- ISBN-10: 0-7897-4634-4
- ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4634-4
Get comfortable with WordPress fast, with this media-rich, customized, hands-on learning experience!
WordPress has grown into the #1 blogging tool in its category: several million bloggers have downloaded this powerful open source software, and millions more are using WordPress.com's hosted services. Thirty-two of Technorati's Top 100 blogs now use WordPress. Using WordPress is a customized, media-rich learning experience designed to help new users master WordPress quickly, and get the most out of it, fast! It starts with a concise, friendly, straight-to-the-point guide to WordPress. This exceptional book is fully integrated with an unprecedented collection of online learning resources: online video, screencasts, podcasts, and additional web content, all designed to reinforce key concepts and help users achieve real mastery. The book and online content work together to teach everything mainstream WordPress users need to know. This practical, approachable coverage guides readers through getting started fast; and will cover the upcoming release of WordPress 3.0. This major upgrade will include built-in image editor and the ability to host multiple blogs from one WordPress install.
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Download Chapter 16: Tips and Tools for WordPress
Download Chapter 17: Managing Multiple Blogs
Download Chapter 18: Becoming a Part of the WordPress Community
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59 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Wordpress for the reasonably intelligent, By
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Wordpress has become popular because that initial step into publishing is so low. It is straightforward, allowing a writer to focus on task.But - at some point - there is the desire to do more. Beyond the basic customization of what appears on the page, comes the wish to have a unique, custom template, extending features - in general, making Wordpress more unique to the user's needs. For those with moderate web experience, who want to do more than the basics with Wordpress - get this book! The chapter "Editing a Theme to Make it Your Own" de-mystifies some of dirty work necessary to tweak a theme via it's CSS. The basic stuff does not even require an understanding of CSS itself - he provides clear instructions that allow a someone to do basic tweaks to their theme so that it will be unique. The chapter "WordPress as a Website" is excellent, as it describes how Wordpress can be used to maintain something that doesn't look like a blog at all - instead -... Read more
46 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Great for those ready to start thier own blog site., By
This review is from: Using WordPress (Paperback)
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WordPress has established itself as the blogging software of choice for millions of people looking to put their thoughts online. Using WordPress is a solid intro to get you up and running with a blog of your own.The book walks you through all the big and not-so-big steps of make a WordPress blog; from install and updates, to using themes, plug-ins and widgets, to handling audio and video files, to keeping your blog secure. Almost all of the content in this book is geared toward the install on your own site "wordpress.org" version of WordPress, but it does try to cater to the "wordpress.com" the stripped-down version hosted by WordPress itself. If you have a wordpress.com blog and are looking to upgrade to your own site down the line, this book'll show you how. The big selling point of this book is the online content. With a quick signup and a simple authentication to prove you actually own the book, you're rewarded with a complete online version of... Read more
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Very good introduction to Wordpress!, By
This review is from: Using WordPress (Paperback)
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I have been using Wordpress since the b2 days, so I pretty much know what is going on in there. However, that is also my downfall - how do you help others use it once it is deployed? I was all ready to start writing some instructions and this book showed up. I got it. I am so glad I did!This thing is really written for the absolute beginning blogger. No fancy jargon, and the jargon that is in there (and it has to be) is fully explained. This is not for developers by any means, unless you are like me and have a whole bunch of users that you have to help. Just hand them this book and let them go to town. The book starts out with the idea that the user does not even have a website, then progresses into how to get a domain name, all the way through setting up Wordpress and using it. Totally brilliant! |
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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . 1
1 Domains and Hosts: Getting the Foundation in Place . . . 7
2 Installing WordPress on Your Own Server . . . 25
3 Getting Around WordPress . . . 47
4 Configuring WordPress to Work Its Best . . . 81
5 How WordPress.com Is Different Than WordPress.org . . . 101
6 Finding and Using Plugins . . . 125
7 All About Themes . . . 147
8 Organizing the Content on Your Blog . . . 191
9 Creating and Managing Content with WordPress . . . 207
10 Creating Sites with WordPress . . . 233
11 Tuning WordPress for Search Engines . . . 251
12 Managing Multimedia with WordPress . . . 263
13 Maintaining WordPress . . . 281
14 Understanding WordPress Security . . . 299
15 Troubleshooting Common Problems . . . 311
Index . . . 333
The following chapters can be accessed online at quepublishing.com/using or usingwordpressbook.com:
16 Tips and Tools for WordPress
17 Managing Multiple Blogs
18 Becoming a Part of the WordPress Community
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