WordPress 2.7 Cookbook Table Of Contents

Preface
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

Preface

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
  - How it works
- 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
  - How it works
- Importing and exporting content with the Import and Export tool
  - Getting ready
  - How to do it
    - Importing content
    - Exporting content
  - How it works

Chapter 2: Finding, Installing, and Tweaking Themes
- Installing a theme
  - Getting ready
  - How to do it
  - There's more...
    - Classic themes
    - Advanced themes
    - Premium themes
    - Lists of themes
    - Important notes about themes

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
  - Getting ready
    - Favicon format
  - How to do it
  - How it works
- 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
  - How to do it
  - How it works
- 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...
    - Special parameters
- 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...
    - Complete widget code

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
    - Usage
- 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...
    - Defining a default image
- 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
  - How it works

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...
    - Structure tags reference
  - 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
  - How to do it
  - How it works
    - Basic options
- 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...
    - Services to ping
- 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
  - How it works
- 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...
    - Advanced conditions
- 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
    - Option 1: Using a hack
  - How it works
    - Option 2: Using a plugin
  - How it works
  - There's more...
    - Plugin versus hack
- 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
  - How it works
- 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
    - 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
    - Photoblog
    - Nishita
    - Fotolog
- 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