WordPress For Dummies

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Sabin-Wilson Lisa. WordPress For Dummies

Foreword

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I. Introducing WordPress

Chapter 1. What WordPress Can Do for You

Discovering the Benefits of WordPress

Choosing a WordPress Platform

Chapter 2. WordPress Basics

Shining the Spotlight on WordPress

Dipping into WordPress Technologies

Using WordPress as a Content Management System

Moving On to the Business of Publishing

Part II. Setting Up WordPress

Chapter 3. Setting Up Blogging Base Camp

Establishing Your Domain

Finding a Home for Your Website

Understanding FTP Concepts

Installing WordPress

Chapter 4. Understanding the WordPress.org Dashboard

Logging In to the Dashboard

Navigating the Dashboard

Arranging the Dashboard to Your Tastes

Finding Inline Documentation and Help

Setting Options in the Dashboard

Configuring the Settings

Creating Your Personal Profile

Setting Your Site’s Format

Chapter 5. Establishing Your Publishing Routine

Staying on Topic with Categories

Examining a Post’s Address: Permalinks

Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options

Writing Your First Entry

Look Who’s Talking on Your Site

Part III. Flexing and Extending WordPress

Chapter 6. Media Management: Images, Audio, and Video

Inserting Images into Your Content

Inserting Video Files into Your Posts

Inserting Audio Files into Your Posts

Keeping Media Files Organized

Chapter 7. Making the Most of WordPress Plugins

Finding Out What Plugins Are

Exploring the Plugins Included with WordPress

Using Plugins: Just the Basics

Installing Plugins Manually

Uploading and Activating Plugins

Setting Plugin Options

Uninstalling Plugins

Understanding the Open Source Environment

Chapter 8. Finding and Installing WordPress Themes

Getting Started with Free Themes

Activating a New Theme

Browsing and Installing Themes from the Dashboard

Deciding to Use Commercial Themes

Part IV. Customizing WordPress

Chapter 9. Understanding Themes and Templates

Using WordPress Themes: The Basics

Contemplating the Structure of a WordPress Website

Examining the Anatomy of a Template Tag

Getting Familiar with the Four Main Templates

Putting a Theme Together

Customizing Your Blog Posts with Template Tags

Using Tags with Parameters for Sidebars

Chapter 10. Tweaking WordPress Themes

Styling with CSS: The Basics

Changing the Background Color

Using Your Own Header Image

Creating Custom Navigation Menus

Changing Font Family, Color, and Size

Understanding Basic HTML Techniques

Chapter 11. Understanding Parent and Child Themes

Customizing Theme Style with Child Themes

Modifying Theme Structure with Child Themes

Preparing a Parent Theme

Chapter 12. WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS)

Creating the Front Page of Your Website

Adding a Blog to Your Website

Creating Custom Page Templates to Achieve Different Layouts and Styles

Creating Different Sidebar and Footer Templates for Your Pages

Creating Custom Styles for Sticky, Category, and Tag Posts

Adding Theme Support for Built-In Features

Optimizing Your WordPress Site for Search Engines

Chapter 13. Hosting Multiple Sites with WordPress

Considering Web-Hosting Services

Enabling the WordPress Network Feature

Installing the Network on Your Site

Exploring the Network Admin Dashboard Menu

Managing Your Network

Stopping Spam Signups and Splogs

Chapter 14. Upgrading, Backing Up, and Migrating

Getting Notified of an Available Upgrade

Backing Up Your Database

Upgrading WordPress Automatically

Upgrading WordPress Manually

Migrating Your Existing Site to WordPress

Importing from WordPress

Moving Your Website to a Different Host

Part V. The Part of Tens

Chapter 15. Ten Popular WordPress Plugins

AppPresser – Mobile App Framework

Jetpack

Subscribe to Comments

Facebook

All in One SEO Pack

BackupBuddy

WP Super Cache

WooCommerce

Google XML Sitemaps

Sucuri Sitecheck Malware Scanner

Chapter 16. Ten Free WordPress Themes

Hybrid

designPile

Responsive

P2

Annotum Base

Blackbird

iTheme2

Esquire

WP-Creativix

Gridline

About the Author

Dedication

Author’s Acknowledgments

WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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There used to be a program from Microsoft called FrontPage that was the first visual interface for creating websites that I saw. It worked like Word or Publisher, so with very little knowledge, I was able to hack together the world's worst website in just a few hours without worrying about what was going on under the hood.

Years later when I look back at that website, I cringe, but at the time it was incredibly empowering. The software, though crude, helped me publish something anybody in the entire world could see. It opened up a world I had never imagined before.

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Alot happens behind the scenes to make your WordPress blog or website function. The beauty of it is that you don’t have to worry about what’s happening on the back end to manage and maintain a WordPress site – unless you really want to. In this chapter, I delve a little bit into the technology behind the WordPress platform, including a brief look at PHP and MySQL, two software components required to run WordPress.

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