WordPress 3 Cookbook
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The WordPress Cook's Tools
- The WordPress Cook's Tools
- Introduction
- Managing media files with the Media Library
- Modifying theme files with the built-in Theme Editor
- Modifying plugin files with the built-in Plugin Editor
- Managing users
- Gaining control over user roles and permissions
- Setting up editorial workflow
- Importing and exporting content
- Installing and using Jetpack
- Enabling the toolbar for users and administrators
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Installing and Customizing Themes
- Installing and Customizing Themes
- Introduction
- Installing a theme
- Creating a child theme
- Modifying your theme colors
- Modifying your theme fonts
- Creating and integrating a favicon
- Adding a custom logo
- Customizing the login page
- Using conditional tags to control content display
- Using multiple page templates
- Using post formats
- Creating a custom 404 error page
- Using a static page as a homepage
- Adding custom styles to your theme
- Making your site mobile device friendly
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Working with Plugins and Widgets
- Working with Plugins and Widgets
- Introduction
- Installing plugins
- Installing widgets
- Adding widget areas to your themes
- Creating your own widget
- Modifying core widgets
- Displaying tabs on your sidebar
- Using conditional tags to control widget display
- Displaying widgets inside of posts and pages
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Customizing Content Display
- Customizing Content Display
- Introduction
- Accessing posts within the WordPress loop
- Retrieving posts from a specific category
- Getting a specific number of posts
- Retrieving posts by date
- Displaying posts published today
- Displaying posts published exactly one year ago
- Using multiple loops
- Accessing post data outside of the WordPress loop
- Accessing permalinks outside the loop
- Displaying thumbnails on your homepage
- Alternating background colors on post lists
- Displaying posts in two columns
- Save time by using WordPress shortcodes
- Enabling the use of shortcodes in widgets
- Adding notes to your posts
- Adding tags to your pages
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Building Interactivity and Community
- Building Interactivity and Community
- Introduction
- Improving navigation with a paginator
- Highlighting searched text in search results
- Integrating a forum into your site
- Adding social bookmarking buttons to your theme
- Aggregating RSS content
- Integrating Feedburner into your site
- Displaying a retweet button on your posts
- Getting more comments with the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin
- Remove the nofollow attribute to motivate users to leave comments
- Provide recognition to your top contributors
- Displaying author-related information on posts
- Displaying the author's avatar on posts
- Allowing multiple authors on posts
- Displaying a list of all of the authors
- Creating community with BuddyPress
- Adding a simple gallery to your site
- Bringing Facebook functionality into your site
- Integrating a Twitter stream into your site
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Implementing Online Sales and Advertising
- Implementing Online Sales and Advertising
- Introduction
- Integrating Adsense
- Displaying ads anywhere in your posts by using WordPress shortcodes
- Managing ad visibility
- Inserting ads into your RSS feeds
- Showing your site stats to find advertisers
- Enhancing your Advertise page by adding Paypal subscriptions
- Managing your advertising space with an ad manager
- Adding a shopping cart to your site
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Making an SEO Friendly Site
- Making an SEO Friendly Site
- Introduction
- Making your site visible to search engines
- Optimizing your permalinks for SEO
- Migrating your permalinks safely
- Adding redirects for changed URLs
- Creating meta descriptions for your posts and pages
- Avoiding duplicate content with a robots.txt file
- Pinging third-party services
- Enhancing site indexing with XML sitemaps
- Using Google's and Bing's Webmaster Tools
- Improving SEO with the SEO Ultimate plugin
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Enhancing Usability and Accessibility
- Enhancing Usability and Accessibility
- Introduction
- Creating print-friendly pages
- Extending WordPress search
- Enhancing navigation with breadcrumbs
- Stopping SPAM
- Optimizing performance with cache management
- Displaying a login form
- Displaying related posts
- Creating a Featured Posts block
- Adding a sitemap for your site visitors
- Creating a better tag cloud
- Adding lightboxes for your photos
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Managing Maintenance and Improving Security
- Managing Maintenance and Improving Security
- Introduction
- Creating a manual backup of your database
- Creating an automatic backup with WP DB Backup
- Restoring a MySQL backup
- Creating backups of your WordPress files
- Removing the WordPress version information from your theme files
- Getting rid of the Administrator account
- Protecting against brute force log in attempts
- Denying access to unneeded hints
- Adding another layer of protection with HTTP authentication
- Restricting access to the wp-admin directory by using the IP address
- Testing your site security
- Reducing SPAM by selectively blocking comment posting