WordPress Top Plugins电子书

WordPress Top Plugins

Table of Contents

WordPress Top Plugins

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Plugin Basics

Safety first

Automatic install versus manual install

Automatic plugin installation

Plugin detail

Downloading, unpacking, installing

Activating the plugin

Connection Information required

Manual installation

Manually installing a plugin with a Mac

Transferring a plugin

Manually installing a plugin on Windows

Creating a bookmark with WinSCP

Transferring a plugin to your blog

Activating your plugin

Finding a plugin's settings

How plugins work

Managing plugins

Keeping your plugins up-to-date

Learn by tinkering

WordPress plugin API

PHP references

CSS

JavaScript

Troubleshooting plugins

Editing plugins

Summary

2. Generating Content

GD Star Rating

Fixing the default ratings

Turning off Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down on posts

Turning off Star Ratings on comments

Better Tag Cloud

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

My Page Order

Get Recent Comments

Viper's Video Quicktags

WP Greet Box

NextGen Gallery

Setting up your first gallery

Adding your gallery to a post or a page

Zemanta

CForms II

CForms administration

Modifying the default form

Adding your form to a page, post, or widget

Advanced CForms customizations

File upload settings

Messages, text, and button label

Core Form Admin / e-mail options

Admin e-mail message options

Auto confirmation

Multi-part / multi-page forms

Tell-A-Friend form support

WP comment feature

Third-party read-notification support

MapPress—Google maps

Adding a map to a post or page

WP-O-Matic

Creating your first campaign

Adding feeds

Categories

Understanding WP-O-Matic's options

Search unleashed

Setting up your search index

Creating your first index

WP Web Scrapper

Copyright warning

Adding a scrapping

Summary

3. Sharing Content

TweetMeme

Setting up TweetMeme

Wordbook

WP Download Manager

Adding a new download

Inserting a download into a post

Twiogle Twitter Commenter

ShareThis

Setting up ShareThis

Wibiya Bar - Beta

Installing the Wibiya bar

WP Facebook Connect

Creating an app ID for your blog

Adding the connect button to your comments

Twitter Friendly Links

Feedburner Feedsmith

Burning your feed

Create a Google account

Verify your blog's feed URL

Burn your feed

Name your feed

Configuring WP-Feedburner

SendIt

SendIt overview

Creating your first newsletter

Adding subscribers

Automatic import

SendIt Widget

Sending a mail

Subscribe-Remind

Sociable

Understanding social options

Disabling sprite usage for images

Disabling alpha mask on the share toolbar

Tagline

Position

Use Text Links

Image Directory

Use Thisbox/iFrame on links

Open in New Window

Awe.sm

Summary

4. Style and Function

About Me Widget

Setting up your About Me Widget

Category Posts Widget

After the Deadline

Using After the Deadline

WordPress Mobile Pack

Mobile themes

Browser detection and domain detection

Important Mobile Themes settings

WPTouch

Web App icon

Page icons

Creating your own icon

Push notifications

WP-Prowl

Setting up WP-Prowl

Favicons

Setting up your Favicon

Picking from the gallery

Use your Gravatar as Favicon

Using a remote icon

Theme Switcher

Advanced marketing use

Image Widget

Post Layout

Inserting content

Breadcrumb NavXT

Inserting the Breadcrumb

Basic Breadcrumb

Exec-PHP

Using Exec-PHP to list your latest tweets

Summary

5. Building a Community with BuddyPress

Before setting up BuddyPress

Sticking to your Community Purpose

BuddyPress

BuddyPress features

Smooth member signup

Twitter-like posting

Profiles

Member communication

Forums

Groups

Members Directory

BuddyPress themes

Cosmic Buddy

BP Nicey

Sense and Sensibility BP 1.6

More themes

BuddyPress plugins

Group Documents

TweetStream

Connecting to Twitter

BuddyPress Album+

Setting up your Community Groups

Step 1: Group details

Step 2: Settings

Step 3: Avatar

Tips for driving traffic to your community

Friends and family

Social networks

Twitter

Facebook

Google AdWords

Google search

Summary

6. Generating Revenue

Donation Can

Zazzle Widget

Setting up the Zazzle Widget

AmazonFeed

Setting up AmazonFeed

Configuration

Post / page specific items

Advertising Manager

Creating a Google AdSense Ad

Creating your first ad in Advertising Manager

Adding the Widget

iTunes Affiliate Link Maker (iTALM)

Adding links to a post

WP e-Commerce, FREE Version

Setting up WP e-Commerce

Adding a digital product

Product Detail

Categories and Tags

Price and Stock Control

Shipping Details

Product Images

Product Download

Setting up your Payment Gateway

Web Invoice—invoicing and billing for WordPress

Setting up an invoice

Select the client

Client Information

Recurring Billing

Invoice Details

Publish

My Ad Manager

Creating the Advertise Here Page

Adding the Widget

Setting up your House Ads

Summary

7. Working with Multiple Authors

Authors Widget

Author Spotlight

Styling the Author widget

Blog Metrics

Cimy User Extra Fields

Pre-Publish Reminder

Edit Flow

Audit Trail

WP-CMS Post Control

Guest Blogger

Adding a new article import

Subscribe to Author Posts Feed

Author Advertising

Setting up Author Advertising widget

The Author Page

Advertising code

Co-Author Plus

Private Messages for WordPress

Summary

8. Security and Maintenance

Security basics

Passwords

Update often

Back up often

Limit Login Attempts

Setting up Limit Login Attempts

Lockout

Secure WordPress

Secure WordPress's options explained

Akismet

Bad Behavior

Upload+

WP Security Scan

Latest version

Table prefix

Hiding Version # and Meta Tag ID

WordPress DB Errors

.htaccess in Admin folder

WP-DBManager

Understanding your database's health

What is a database?

What is MySQL?

How does WordPress use MySQL?

Repair, Optimize, and Backup

WP-DB-Backup

WordPress Backup

Maintenance Mode

Customizing the maintenance notice

WP-Optimize

Quick Cache

Quick Cache Options explained

Error Reporting

Auto Delete old log files

Configuration

Summary

9. Power Admin

Fluency Admin

Quick key access

Styling the login screen

StatPress

Key datapoints

Latest Referrers

Search Terms

Operating Systems

Browsers Used

Spy View

Notifier

Shockingly Big IE6 Warning

Admin Links Widget

WordPress Admin Bar

Code Editor

WordPress Admin QuickMenu

Setting up your links

Email Users

E-mail ideas

Exclusive e-mailer

Special deals and offers

Helping a cause

Tips and tricks

Broken Link Checker

Admin Management Xtended

Understanding the interface

Menu Manager

Simple Tags

Configuring third party Taxonomy Services

Redirection

Widget Logic

Commonly used logic

Summary

10. Time for Action

The open source business model

WordPress for prototyping

Real business models with WordPress

Selling digital goods

Selling themes

Selling plugins

Selling advertising spots

Job board

Corporate blogging software

Hosting WordPress

Continuing education

Summary

Index