WordPress 2.7 Cookbook电子书

WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code for the book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Ready to Cook with WordPress

Managing media files with the Media Library

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Live editing themes with the built-in Theme Editor

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Editing plugins with the WordPress built-in Plugin Editor

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Managing authors and users with the User Manager

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Importing and exporting content with the Import and Export tool

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

2. Finding and Installing Themes

Installing a theme

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Classic themes

Agregado theme

Leopress theme

Rio theme

WP Imagination theme

WP CODA theme

Outdoorsy

Advanced themes

Mimbo 2

OpenBook

Brightness

Rebel Magazine

Revolution 2

Arthemia

Premium themes

Mimbo Pro

WP Vybe

Open Air

Citrus theme

Fresh News

Lists of themes

WordPress.org theme gallery

100 excellent WordPress themes

Premium WordPress themes gallery

Free magazine style WordPress theme gallery

Best WP theme

WPVote WordPress themes

ThemeLab free themes

Important notes about themes

Important factors to consider

Magazine versus blog themes

Questions you must ask yourself before choosing a magazine theme

3. Get the most out ofyour WordPress Theme

Modifying your theme colors

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Modifying your theme fonts

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Tips and things to know about fonts

Creating and integrating a favicon

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Integrating your own logo

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding a link to the homepage

Adding social bookmarking buttons to your theme

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using CSS to style the social bookmarking widget

Adding Del.icio.us live count

Code explanation

Integrating Feedburner feeds on your theme

How to do it...

How it works...

Integrating Twitter on your theme using the Twitter Tools plugin

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Displaying your Twitter entries on your blog using a page template

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Customizing WordPress admin login page

How to do it...

How it works...

Using conditional tags to display content on specific pages

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using page templates in your theme

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating an archive page

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a custom 404 error page

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using a static page as a homepage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a Featured Posts block on your homepage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Making your new posts stands out with a custom style

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

4. Doing anything withPlugins and Widgets

Installing plugins

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting rid of comment spams with Akismet

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Backing up your database with WP Database Backup

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Scheduling automatic backups

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Optimizing your blog performances with WP Super Cache

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Prevent URLs from being cached

Adding redirects for changed Permalinks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using redirects for affiliate marketing and cloaking

Getting more comments with the Subscribe to Comments plugin

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Accessing real time statistics with WordPress.com Stats

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Monetizing your blog with ISIS Ads Management

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Extending WordPress search with Search Unleashed

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing widgets

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Installing downloaded widgets

Making your sidebar widget-ready

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating two (or more) different widget-ready zones

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Modifying core widgets

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating your own widget

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Complete widget code

5. Displaying Posts

Getting posts within the WordPress loop

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Retrieving posts from a particular category only

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting an exact number of posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Retrieving posts by date

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting posts published today

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting posts published exactly a year ago

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using two different loops withoutduplicate posts

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing post data outside of the WordPress loop

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing permalinks outside the loop

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the $post global variable

Displaying any RSS feed on your blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying thumbnails on your blog homepage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Defining a default image

Alternating background color on post list

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Displaying posts in two columns

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Saving time by using WordPress shortcodes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a nice download message box using a shortcode

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

6. Managing and Enhancing Multi-Author Blogs

Creating an author page template

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying a custom login form in your blog's sidebar

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding a control panel to your blog's sidebar

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding a login form and a control panel

Configuring author roles

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Controlling what authors can do

User roles and their capabilities

Controlling what users can see in your theme

Displaying author-related information on posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying author picture on posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Displaying the author's gravatar picture on posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding moderation buttons to the comments

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting notified when a new draft is saved

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Allowing multiple authors on posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Displaying a list of all of the authors

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Controlling the wp_list_authors() function

7. Securing yourWordPress Blog

Creating manual backups of your WordPress blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Restoring a MySQL backup

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating backups of your WordPress files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using a shell script to create automatic files and database backups

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Securing your plugins directory

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Removing a WordPress version from the theme files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting rid of the Administrator account

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Forbiding login automatically after some failed login attempt

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Protecting the wp-admin directory brute force with the help of AskApache

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Restricting wp-admin directory to your IP address

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Allowing access to more than one IP

Testing your blog security

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Denying comment posting on no referrer requests

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

8. SEO Tips and Tricks to Get More Visits

Optimizing your permalinks for SEO

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Structure tags reference

Further optimizing your permalinks

Migrating your permalinks safely

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Optimizing your title tag for SEO

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating Meta descriptions for your posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

A more sophisticated code by using custom fields

Avoiding duplicate content with a robot.txt file

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

PHP code to avoid duplicate content

Adding a sitemap to your blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using Google Webmaster Tools

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Overview

Statistics

Links

Sitemaps

Tools

Pinging third party services

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Services to ping

Enhancing your WordPress blog SEO with the All in One SEO Pack plugin

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Five more tips for a better SEO

Get backlinks

Use the proper h tags structure

Make sure your blog is XHTML valid

Make good use of keywords

Think about your permalinks twice

9. Making Money with WordPress

Integrating Adsense to your WordPress blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Displaying ads anywhere in your posts by using WordPress shortcodes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Inserting shortcodes into sidebar widgets

Displaying Adsense ads to search enginesvisitors only

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Managing who Sees Ads

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Global options

Advanced conditions

Inserting ads in your RSS feeds

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Solving problems with Feedburner

Redirecting your WordPress RSS feeds to Feedburner

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Plugin versus hack

Showing your blog stats to find advertisers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Managing your 125*125 px ad spots

Enhancing your Advertise page by adding Paypal subscriptions

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Telling advertisers how to unsubscribe

10. Enhancing UserExperience

Replacing the Next and Previous links by a paginator

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Highlighting searched text in search results

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a drop-down menu for your categories

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a horizontal drop-down menu

Part 1: PHP and HTML

Part 2: The CSS

Part 3: (Optional) JavaScript

Adding a breadcrumb to your theme

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using a hack to display breadcrumbs

Displaying related posts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Displaying tabs on your sidebar

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

11. Make your Blog Stand Out

Rewarding your commentators to get more comments

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding a print stylesheet to your blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using WordPress as a photoblog

Photoblog

Nishita

Fotolog

Creating your own Photoblog theme

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating an iPhone-friendly version of your blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using an header image

Modify the title and slogan

Integrating a forum in your WordPress blog

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Skins

Moderators

User groups