Aaron Brazell 
WordPress Bible [EPUB ebook] 

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Within a week of the announcement of Word Press 3.0, it had been
downloaded over a million times. Now you can get on the bandwagon
of this popular open-source blogging tool with Word Press Bible, 2nd
Edition. Whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro, this
comprehensive guide covers the latest version of Word Press, from
the basics through advanced application development. If you want to
thoroughly learn Word Press, this is the book you need to
succeed.

* Explores the principles of blogging, marketing, and social
media interaction

* Shows you how to install and maintain Word Press

* Thoroughly covers Word Press basics, then ramps up to advanced
topics

* Guides you through best security practices as both a user and a
developer

* Helps you enhance your blog?s findability in major search
engines and create customizable and dynamic themes

* Author maintains a high-profile blog in the Word Press
community, Technosailor.com

* Tech edited by Mark Jaquith, one of the lead developers of
Word Press

The Word Press Bible is the only resource you need to
learn Word Press from beginning to end.

Tabella dei contenuti

Part I: Getting Started with Word Press 1

Chapter 1: Learning About Word Press 3

Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Word Press 23

Chapter 3: Word Press, SEO, and Social Media Marketing 43

Chapter 4: Finding Help in the Word Press Support System 63

Part II: Working with Plugins 77

Chapter 5: Extending Word Press with Plugins 79

Chapter 6: Building Widgets and Navigation Menus 115

Chapter 7: Understanding the Word Press Database Class 137

Chapter 8: Dissecting the Loop and WP_Query 159

Part III: Working with Themes and Template Tags 179

Chapter 9: Using Free or Premium Themes 181

Chapter 10: Understanding the Template File Hierarchy 195

Chapter 11: Adding Java Script and CSS to Themes 225

Chapter 12: Dissecting the Comment Loop, Template Tags, and Theme Best Practices 245

Part IV: Creating Content 269

Chapter 13: Navigating the Content Production Experience 271

Chapter 14: Using Offline Editors 291

Part V: Keeping Up with the Joneses: Maintenance and Upgrades 311

Chapter 15: Performing Automatic Upgrades 313

Chapter 16: Moving to Word Press and Backing It Up 323

Chapter 17: Word Press Maintenance and Security 349

Chapter 18: Caching Strategy to Ensure Word Press Scales 369

Chapter 19: Understanding Word Press Roles and Capabilities 389

Part VI: Alternate Uses for Word Press 399

Chapter 20: Using Word Press for Alternative Blogging 401

Chapter 21: Word Press as a Content Management System 423

Part VII: Looking at the Word Press Ecosystem 437

Chapter 22: Leveraging Word Press Multisite Functionality 439

Chapter 23: Adding User Forums with bb Press 459

Chapter 24: Creating Your Own Social Network with Buddy Press 469

Chapter 25: Using Back Press as a Development Framework 485

Chapter 26: Word Press.com and the Automattic Products 495

Chapter 27: Leveraging Automattic Products 513

Part VIII: Appendixes 529

Appendix A: Word Press Hook Reference 531

Appendix B: Template Tags 589

Appendix C: Word Press Hosting 643

Appendix D: Word Press Vendors and Professional Services 653

Appendix E: Word Press in Government 665

Appendix F: Word Press in Major Media 675

Appendix G: The General Public License 683

Index 689

Circa l’autore

Aaron Brazell is a Word Press expert, core contributor, and developer currently responsible for directing and developing a Word Press premium platform for customers. His Word Press knowledge extends back to the early days of the software, and he has worked on large-scale Word Press installations from both a technical/scaling perspective to complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the software plugin API. He maintains a business and technology blog, Technosailor.com.

Mark Jaquith is one of the lead developers of Word Press and an independent Web services consultant. With over four and a half years of extensive experience with Word Press, he has written several popular plugins and contributed countless patches to the core Word Press engine.