| |
Back
to BOOK PAGE
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Cook with WordPress
Chapter 2: Finding, Installing, and Tweaking Themes
Chapter 3: Get the most out of your WordPress Theme
Chapter 4: Doing anything with Plugins and Widgets
Chapter 5: Displaying Posts
Chapter 6: Managing and Enhancing Multi-Author Blogs
Chapter 7: Securing your WordPress Blog
Chapter 8: SEO Tips and Tricks to Get More Visits
Chapter 9: Making Money with WordPress
Chapter 10: Enhancing User Experience
Chapter 11: Make your Blog Stand Out
Index
- Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Cook with WordPress
- Using built-in WordPress tools
- Managing media files with the Media Library
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Deleting media
- Bulk media deletion
- Live editing themes with the built-in Theme Editor
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Editing plugins with the WordPress built-in Plugin Editor
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Managing authors and users with the User Manager
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Deleting users
- Editing user details
- Importing and exporting content with the Import and Export tool
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Importing content
- Exporting content
- Chapter 3: Get the most out of your WordPress Theme
- Modifying your theme colors
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Modifying your theme fonts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- There's more...
- Tips and things to know about fonts
- Creating and integrating a favicon
- Integrating your own logo
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Adding a link to the homepage
- Adding social bookmarking buttons to your theme
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Using CSS to style the social bookmarking widget
- Adding Del.icio.us live count
- Code explanation
- Integrating Feedburner feeds on your theme
- Integrating Twitter on your theme using the Twitter Tools plugin
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Displaying your Twitter entries on your blog, using a page template
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Customizing WordPress admin login page
- Plugin versus hack
- How to do it
- How it works
- Using conditional tags to display content on specific pages
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works?
- There's more...
- Using page templates in your theme
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Creating an archive page
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Creating a custom 404 error page
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Using a static page as a homepage
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Creating a Featured Posts block on your homepage
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Making your new posts stands out with a custom style
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Chapter 4: Doing anything with Plugins and Widgets
- Installing plugins
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Getting rid of comment spams with Akismet
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Backing up your database with WP Database Backup
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Scheduling automatic backups
- How it works
- There's more…
- Optimizing your blog performances with WP Super Cache
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Prevent URLs from being cached
- Adding redirects for changed Permalinks
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Using redirects for affiliate marketing and cloaking
- Get more comments with the Subscribe to Comments plugin
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Accessing real time statistics with WordPress.com Stats
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Monetizing your blog with ISIS Ads Management
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Extending WordPress search with Search Unleashed
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Installing widgets
- Plugins versus widgets
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Installing downloaded widgets
- Make your sidebar widget-ready
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Creating two (or more) different widget-ready zones
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Modifying core widgets
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Creating your own widget
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Chapter 5: Displaying Posts
- Getting posts within the WordPress loop
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Retrieving posts from a particular category only
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Getting an exact number of posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Retrieving posts by date
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Getting posts published today
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Getting posts published exactly a year ago
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Using two different loops without duplicate posts
- How to do it
- How it works
- Complete code
- Accessing post data outside of the WordPress loop
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Accessing permalinks outside the loop
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Using the $post global variable
- Displaying any RSS feed on your blog
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Displaying thumbnails on your blog homepage
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Alternating background color on post list
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Displaying posts in two columns
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Save time by using WordPress shortcodes
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Creating a nice download message box using a shortcode
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Chapter 6: Managing and Enhancing Multi-Author Blogs
- Creating an author page template
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Displaying a custom login form in your blog's sidebar
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Adding a control panel to your blog's sidebar
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Adding a login form and a control panel
- Configuring author roles
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Controlling what authors can do
- Displaying author-related information on posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Displaying author picture on posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Displaying the author's gravatar picture on posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Adding moderation buttons to the comments
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Getting notified when a new draft is saved
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Allowing multiple authors on posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Displaying a list of all of the authors
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Controlling the wp_list_authors() function
- Chapter 7: Securing your WordPress Blog
- Creating manual backups of your WordPress blog
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Restoring a MySQL backup
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Creating backups of your WordPress files
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Using a shell script to create automatic files and database backups
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Securing your plugins directory
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Removing a WordPress version from the theme files
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Getting rid of the Administrator account
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Automatically forbid login after some failed login attempt
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Protecting the wp-admin directory brute force with the help of AskApache
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Restricting wp-admin directory to your IP address
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Allowing access to more than one IP
- Testing your blog security
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Deny comment posting on no referrer requests
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- The .htaccess method
- The PHP method
- Chapter 8: SEO Tips and Tricks to Get More Visits
- Optimizing your permalinks for SEO
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Further optimizing your permalinks
- Migrating your permalinks safely
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Optimize your title tag for SEO
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Create Meta descriptions for your posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- A more sophisticated code by using custom fields
- Avoid duplicate content with a robot.txt file
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- PHP code to avoid duplicate content
- Adding a sitemap to your blog
- Getting ready
- How sitemaps works
- General rules for creating sitemaps
- Using Google Webmaster Tools
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Overview
- Statistics
- Links
- Sitemaps
- Tools
- Pinging third party services
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Enhancing your WordPress blog SEO with the All in One SEO Pack plugin
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- There's more...
- Five more tips for a better SEO
- Chapter 9: Making Money with WordPress
- Integrating Adsense to your WordPress blog
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Method 1: Using your Adsense code in your theme files
- Method 2: Using a text widget to display your Adsense ads
- Display ads anywhere in your posts by using WordPress shortcodes
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Inserting shortcodes into sidebar widgets
- Displaying Adsense ads to search engines visitors only
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Managing who Sees Ads
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Inserting ads in your RSS feeds
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Option 1: Using a hack
- Option 2: Using a plugin
- How it works
- There's more...
- Solving problems with Feedburner
- Redirecting your WordPress RSS feeds to Feedburner
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Show your blog stats to find advertisers
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Managing your 125*125 px ad spots
- Enhancing your Advertise page by adding Paypal subscriptions
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- There's more...
- Telling advertisers how to unsubscribe
- Chapter 10: Enhancing User Experience
- Replacing the Next and Previous links by a paginator
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Highlighting searched text in search results
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Using the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Applying this hack to pages
- Applying this hack to categories
- Creating a drop-down menu for your categories
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- Step 1: PHP and HTML
- Step 2: The CSS
- Step 3: Optional JavaScript
- How it works
- There's more...
- Creating a horizontal drop-down menu
- Adding a breadcrumb to your theme
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Using a hack to display breadcrumbs
- Displaying related posts
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Display tabs on your sidebar
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Chapter 11: Make your Blog Stand Out
- Rewarding your commentators to get more comments
- Making your blog dofollow with the
- NoFollow Free plugin
- Using the Top Commentators widget
- Installing the Top Commentators widget
- Conclusion
- Adding a print stylesheet to your blog
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Print button
- Print stylesheet inclusion and selection
- Print stylesheet
- Using WordPress as a photoblog
- Photoblog themes for WordPress
- Creating your own Photoblog theme
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Creating an iPhone-friendly version of your blog
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Using an header image
- Modify the title and slogan
- Integrating a forum in your WordPress blog
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There's more...
- Skins
- Moderators
- User groups
Back to BOOK PAGE
| |
|
