WordPress
Book - 2021
"Get ready to wield the awesome power of WordPress--the web content-building tool used by individuals, organizations, and corporations worldwide to get their messaging out attractively and professionally."--Page 4 of cover.
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Ninth edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xi, 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119696971
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Introduction WordPress
- Chapter 1. What WordPress Can Do for You
- Discovering the Benefits of WordPress
- Getting set up the fast and easy way
- Extending WordPress's capabilities
- Taking part in the community
- Choosing a WordPress Platform
- Choosing the hosted version from WordPress.com
- Self-hosting with WordPress.org
- Chapter 2. WordPress Basics
- Shining the Spotlight on WordPress
- Dipping Into WordPress Technologies
- Archiving your publishing history
- Interacting with your readers through comments
- Feeding your readers
- Tracking back
- Dealing with comment and trackback spam
- Using WordPress as a Content Management System
- Exploring the differences between a website and a blog
- Viewing examples of blogs and websites
- Moving On to the Business of Publishing
- Part 2. Setting Up WordPress
- Chapter 3. Setting Up Your WordPress Base Camp
- Establishing Your Domain
- Understanding domain name extensions
- Considering the cost of a domain name
- Registering your domain name
- Finding a Home for Your Website
- Getting help with hosting WordPress
- Dealing with disk space and bandwidth
- Understanding Secure File Transfer Concepts
- Setting up SFTP on your hosting account
- Connecting to the web server via SFTP
- Transferring files from point A to point B
- Editing files via SFTP
- Changing file permissions
- Installing WordPress
- Exploring Preinstalled WordPress
- Installing WordPress manually
- Setting up the MySQL database
- Uploading the WordPress files
- Last step: Running the installation script
- Chapter 4. Understanding the WordPress.org Dashboard
- Logging In to the Dashboard
- Navigating the Dashboard
- Welcome to WordPress!
- Site Health
- At a Glance
- Activity
- Quick Draft
- WordPress Events and News
- Arranging the Dashboard to Your Tastes
- Finding Inline Documentation and Help
- Setting Options in the Dashboard
- Configuring the Settings
- General
- Writing
- Reading
- Discussion
- Media
- Permalinks
- Privacy
- Creating Your Personal Profile
- Setting Your Site's Format
- Posts
- Media
- Pages
- Comments
- Appearance
- Plugins
- Users
- Tools
- Chapter 5. Establishing Your Publishing Routine
- Staying on Topic with Categories
- Changing the name of a category
- Creating new categories and deleting others
- Examining a Post's Address: Permalinks
- Making your post Sinks pretty
- Customizing your permalinks
- Making sure that your permalinks work with your server
- Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options
- Writing Your First Entry
- Using the Block Editor
- Discovering available blocks
- Inserting new blocks
- Configuring block settings
- Refining Your Post Options
- Publishing Your Post
- Being Your Own Editor
- Look Who's Talking on Your Site
- Managing comments and trackbacks
- Moderating comments and trackbacks
- Tackling spam with Akismet
- Part 3. Flexing and Extending Wordpress
- Chapter 6. Media Management: Images, Audio, and Video
- Inserting Images into Your Content
- Uploading an image from your computer
- Inserting an image from the Media Library
- Using the Columns Block to Insert Multiple Images in a Row
- Inserting a Cover Image into a Post
- Inserting a Photo Gallery
- Inserting Video Files into Your Posts
- Adding a link to a video from the web
- Adding video from your computer
- Adding video using the Embed block
- Inserting Audio Files into Your Blog Posts
- Inserting Audio Using the Embed Block
- Podcasting with WordPress
- Chapter 7. Making the Most of WordPress Plugins
- Finding Out What Plugins Are
- Extending WordPress with plugins:
- Distinguishing between plugins and themes
- Exploring the Plugins Page
- Identifying Core Plugins
- Incorporating Akismet
- Saying Hello Doily
- Discovering the one-click plugin update
- Using Plugins: Just the Basics
- Installing Plugins Manually
- Finding and downloading the files
- Reading the instructions
- Uploading and Activating Plugins
- Uploading a new plugin
- Activating a plugin
- Setting Plugin Options
- Uninstalling Plugins
- Understanding the Open-Source Environment
- Finding Plugins Beyond WordPress.org
- Comparing Free and Commercial Plugins
- Chapter 8. Finding and Installing WordPress Themes
- Getting Started with Free Themes
- Finding free themes
- Avoiding unsafe themes
- Previewing themes on the Themes page
- Installing a Theme
- Browsing the free themes
- Previewing and activating a theme
- Exploring Premium Theme Options
- Examining the Default Theme: Twenty Twenty
- Exploring the layout and structure
- Customizing the site identity
- Customizing colors
- Including custom navigation menus
- Enhancing Your Theme with Widgets
- Adding widgets to your website
- Using the Text widget
- Using the RSS widget
- Part 4. Customizing WordPress
- Chapter 9. Understanding Themes and Templates
- Using WordPress Themes: The Basics
- Understanding theme structure
- Connecting templates
- Contemplating the Structure of a WordPress Website
- Examining the Anatomy of a Template Tag
- Getting Familiar with the Four Main Templates
- The Header template
- The Main Index template
- The Sidebar template
- The Footer template
- Other templates
- Putting a Theme Together
- Connecting the templates
- Using additional stylesheets
- Customizing Your Posts with Template Tags
- Using Tags with Parameters for Sidebars
- The calendar
- List pages
- Post archives
- Categories
- Getting widgetized
- Chapter 10. Tweaking WordPress Themes
- Styling with CSS: The Basics
- CSS selectors
- Classes and IDs
- CSS properties and values
- Changing the Background Graphics with CSS
- Uploading an image for background use
- Positioning, repeating, and attaching images
- Using Your Own Header Image
- Customizing Colors in Twenty Twenty
- Creating Custom Navigation Menus
- Building custom navigation menus
- Displaying custom menus with widgets
- Changing Font Family, Color, and Size
- Changing font color
- Changing font size
- Adding borders
- Understanding Basic HTML Techniques
- Inserting images
- Inserting hyperlinks
- Inserting lists
- Chapter 11. Understanding Parent and Child Themes
- Customizing Theme Style with Child Themes
- Loading a parent theme's style
- Customizing the parent theme's styling
- Using images in child theme designs
- Modifying Theme Structure with Child Themes
- Overriding parent template files
- Adding new template files
- Removing template files
- Modifying the functions.php file
- Preparing a Parent Theme
- Chapter 12. WordPress As a Content Management System
- Creating Different Page Views Using WordPress Templates
- Uploading the template
- Assigning the template to a static page
- Creating a Template for Each Post Category
- Using Sidebar Templates
- Creating Custom Styles for Sticky, Category, and Tag Posts
- Working with Custom Post Types
- Adding Support for Taxonomies
- Adding Support for Post Thumbnails
- Adding the post thumbnails to a theme
- Adding custom image sizes for post thumbnails
- Optimizing Your WordPress Site
- Planting keywords on your website
- Optimizing your post titles for search engine success
- Writing content with readers in mind
- Creating categories that attract search engines
- Using the tag for images
- Chapter 13. Hosting Multiple Sites with WordPress
- Deciding When to Use the Multisite Feature
- Understanding the Difference between Sites and Blogs
- Considering Web-Hosting Services
- Enabling the WordPress Network Feature
- DNS
- Apache mod_rewrite
- Virtual host
- PHP
- Installing the Network on Your Site
- Exploring the Network Admin Dashboard Menu
- Managing Your Network
- Settings
- Sites
- Users
- Themes
- Plugins
- 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
- Movin' on up
- Preparing for the big move
- Converting templates
- Moving your website to WordPress
- Importing from Blogger
- Importing from LiveJournal
- Importing from Movable Type and TypePad
- Importing from Tumblr
- Importing from WordPress
- Importing from an RSS feed
- Finding other import resources
- Moving Your Website to a Different Host
- Creating a backup and moving manually
- Using a plugin to back up and move to a new host
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 15. Ten Popular WordPress Plugins
- Custom Post Type UI
- Jetpack
- Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
- Cookie Notice for GDPR 8
- Yoast SEO
- BackupBuddy
- WP Super Cache
- WooCommerce
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Sucuri Security
- Chapter 16. Ten Free WordPress Themes
- Hybrid Core
- Hestia
- Responsive
- Ashe
- Prefer Blog
- BlackBird
- Storefront
- Sinatra
- Nisarg
- Optics
- Index