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Learn WordPress plugin basics for both Macs and PCs

Focuses exclusively on 100% free and open plugins

Screenshots for each plugin

Organized by complexity to install and manage

Search Terms for automatic installation of plugins

Instructions on configuring and setting up the more complex plugins

Description

Bloggers, authors, coders, photographers, moms, dads, big companies, small companies, and even kids use WordPress to manifest their personas online. WordPress is used in every market, in every country, and continues to grow everyday. This explosive growth and international open source love affair was ignited the day WordPress announced the simple idea of a 'plugin'A WordPress plugin is a collection of files (PHP, javascript, css) that creates a small feature or modification to your WordPress blog. WordPress Top Plugins will teach you to add these plugins to an already built base WordPress site, and customize them where applicable.This book will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, for building communities and reader base, and for generating real advertising revenue.There is literally a plugin for almost anything you want to achieve in WordPress.This book will show you how plugins work, and more importantly, how to install and activate them on your blog without you having to touch a single line of code, unless of course, you want to.Content is king, and it’s pretty hard to generate. This book will cover some of the best plugins available on WordPress to generate unique and dynamic content.Once you have your blog loaded chock full of juicy content, you will learn how to turn your blog in to an overnight sensation by helping your readers to share it, using tools to retweet, post on Facebook, and so on.This book will teach you how to build a community with one single killer plugin, namely, BuddyPress—the best community building plugin available for WordPress.Once you are through with plugin basics, content, and building a community, this book will show you how to generate revenue! It will cover the top plugins for turning your blog into a money making machine!This book will also cover plugins focused on tweaking and perfecting your blog’s overall look and feel, and functionality.Nothing helps build a powerful online blog brand than a horde of talented writers to contribute their ideas and content – as well as their social network. This book will cover a bunch of plugins that will make working with multiple authors easy, efficient, and effective.Last but not the least, it will cover the best plugins for ensuring that your blog is secure, the database is running optimally, and in the case of an emergency, you have a full backup copy of your blog.While most plugins in this book are focused on a blog’s frontend, this book will also cover some great 'non-public' facing plugins that make our lives so much easier and make your WordPress site a productive powerhouse.

Who is this book for?

Regardless of whether this is your first time working with WordPress, or you’re a seasoned WordPress coding ninja, WordPress Top Plugins will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and reader base, and generating real advertising revenue.

What you will learn

Install, manage, and edit plugins automatically and manually for both Macs and PCs

Create new blog posts from RSS feeds and pull external content from any website

Create rich and engaging photo galleries

Embed video from YouTube, Google, Vimeo, and more

Embed Google Maps with custom markers

Make your blog mobile by sending notifications to users mobile phones, by letting users pick their theme, inserting dynamic content in to posts and pages, and so on

Learn the basics of starting an online community with BuddyPress plugin

Leverage other Social Networks to drive traffic

Generate Revenue by collecting donations with PayPal, including Amazon related products on a post, working with Google AdSense, selling digital goods with your own shopping cart, invoicing clients, and selling ad space on your site.

Promote your authors, track an author's performance, and share Google Adsense revenue with your authors

Protect your website from common hacking practices by eliminating comment spam, and also by creating backup of your database and entire blog

Make your WordPress Administration beautiful and usable by keeping track of visitors' activities, accessing links to your Admin from your blogs frontend, adding powerful CMS-like features, and so on

Customize your blog s appearance by using customization plugins

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Robert Morris Mar 03, 2011

Presumably many others are also in circumstances comparable with mine: I am working with people who have been retained to help improve my WordPress website and I need to understand the technical nomenclature, the interdependence of components, and other "basics." Hence the importance to me of having volumes such as this one to fill in my information/understanding gaps.As is also true of other Packt publications in its "WordPress" series, notably Heather R. Wallace's WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, Tessa Blakeley Silver`s WordPress 3.0 jQuery, and Brandon Corbin's WordPress Top Plug Ins, Silver again provides about as much information, insights, and advice that I need to in order to work effectively with my website team. Our shared objective: To co-create professional (i.e. "commercial strength") themes.My high regard for this volume and rating of it are explained by the fact that I have learned a great deal about:o WordPress plugin basics for both Macs and PCso About those that focus exclusively on 100% free and open pluginso Screenshots for each plugin that are organized by complexity to install and manageo Search Terms for automatic installation of pluginso Instructions on configuring and setting up the more complex pluginso The eBook available as PDF and ePub downloads and also on PacktLib ([...])You can obtain even more information about this book by visiting [...]In another review, I will share what I learned from Tessa Baker Silver's Word Press Theme Design, a volume that provides a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes.

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Prabhu Ram Jun 14, 2012

I am starting with WordPress development. Apart from the basic setup, WP offers a sea of plugins which is positive and also quite nightmare. The book gives a good hold on the plugins that can be used to extend WP, and also is well categorized. Even if one does not chooses the author's recommended plugins, the book serves as a good pathfinder to knowledge oneself on the possible plugins that are available in WP store house. Very good for newbies to know what to expect out of WP plugin database.However, I am giving 4 star, I am not sure how much the author has used them personally, and if faced any issues that are likely to occur.

Mark Polino Jul 26, 2014

I've got a couple of fully functioning WordPress sites so I'm always looking for ways to make them better, easier, and simpler to administer. I got Wordpress Top Plugins for free via Packt Publishing and I dove in looking for stuff.An inherent problem with a book like this is that it ages quickly. New Wordpress versions come out regularly and plugins sometimes don't get updated or are abandoned all together. With that in mind, I went into this book looking for ideas. If could find the specific plugin recommended, great, if not, and the functionality of the plugin still interested me, I at least had a starting point.With that in mind, I was really pleased with Wordpress Top Plugins. Some were well known items that I was already using, but there were plenty of interesting gems. I came away with more than a dozen plugins to at least look at.The book is well organized and the reason why each plug in is suggested is included. If you're looking for ideas, Wordpress Top Plugins is a great place to start.

Chen Sun Jan 31, 2011

Overpriced and unclear as to degree of author's experience in use. This book is essentially a cataloging of and commentaries on approximately 50 Wordpress plugins. Content is what I would expect on someone's website. I purchased this because I expected a book author would provide in depth analysis and true expertise. This book just doesn't feel like the author has done sufficient reviews of competitive plugins and even feels like he hasn't thoroughly used many of the plugins reviewed much. If the title claims these are Wordpress's Top Plugins, I expect a book to be more than reviewing some high star ratings plugins on Wordpress.org.Probably worth about $20.

WordPress Top Plugins: Find and install the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and generating revenue

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