WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide电子书

WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner’s Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code for the book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing WordPress MU

What is WordPress MU

Making your own social blog network

What is BuddyPress

What is bbPress

Making and hosting my site

Choosing between VPS, dedicated, and grid hosting

VPS

Dedicated servers

Grid hosting

Server requirements for WordPress MU

Recommended WordPress MU hosts

Building our example site: The SlayerCafe

Planning your site

Summary

2. Installing WordPress MU

Tools you will need

Text editors

FTP clients and other tools

Setting up a local web server

Time for action – getting your server set up

What just happened?

Databases with MySQL

Preparing for WordPress MU—creating a database

Time for action – creating a database for WordPress MU

What just happened?

Time for action – subdomains for WordPress MU

What just happened?

Pop quiz – your local server

Have a go hero – getting more from Apache

Preparing your live server

Time for action – working with cPanel

What just happened?

User blogs with subdomains

Time for action – subdomains under WHM

What just happened?

One last thing—wildcards and Apache

What just happened?

Pop quiz – subdomains

Installing WordPress MU

Time for action – getting WordPress MU up and running

What just happened?

Changing the admin password

Time for action – changing the admin password

Letting people register

Time for action – enabling registrations

What just happened?

Testing your site

Time for action – creating a new user

Have a go hero – doing more with the thing

Summary

3. Customizing the Appearance of Your Site

Picking out a theme

Installing your new theme

Time for action – installing a new theme

What just happened?

Styling the sign-up page

Time for action – editing your theme

What just happened?

Have a go hero – it's time to style

Setting the theme for your users' blogs

Time for action – changing the default blog theme

What just happened?

Customizing your home page

Time for action – making a sign-up button

What just happened?

Featured posts

Time for action – featured posts

What just happened?

Have a go hero – styling the featured post

Showing off your statistics

Time for action – simple stats

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding extra stats

Pop quiz – doing the thing

Displaying recent posts and comments

Time for action – displaying the most active blogs

What just happened?

Customizing AHP Sitewide Recent Posts plugin

Time for action – tweaking the recent post display options

What just happened?

Pop quiz – doing the thing

Displaying Sitewide recent comments plugin

Time for action – Sitewide recent comments

What just happened?

The plugin display code

Pop quiz – multiuser plugins

Time for action – our improved home page

Other important points

Summary

4. Letting Users Manage Their Blogs

User management basics

Preparing the site for our users

Banned Names

Limited Email Registrations and Banned Email Domains

Media restrictions and upload space

Plugins

Have a go hero – embedded videos

Customization options for your users

Time for action – offering a selection of themes

What just happened?

User editable themes

Time for action – userthemes revisited

What just happened?

User roles and admin panels

Time for action – setting user levels and changing the user's admin panel

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating new roles

Hiding the dashboard

Time for action – hiding the dashboard

What just happened?

More user options – privacy and using their own domain

Time for action – domain mapping

What just happened?

Have a go hero – server setup for domains

Pop quiz – doing the thing

A few things to consider

Summary

5. Protecting Your Site

Signing up for reCAPTCHA

Stopping spam with reCAPTCHA and Bad Behavior

Time for action – setting up reCAPTCHA

What just happened?

Bad Behavior

Time for action – setting up Bad Behavior

What just happened?

Have a go hero – taking spam prevention to the next level

Making sure the plugins run for your users

Time for action – managing your users' plugins

What just happened?

Blocking bad guys with .htaccess

Time for action – .htaccess settings to stop bad guys

What just happened?

Have a go hero – build your own list

Pop quiz – spam blocking

Other useful plugins

Moderating registrations

Taming your default categories

Regular backups without lifting a finger

Time for action – automatic backups

What just happened?

Have a go hero – other ways to do backups

Summary

6. Increasing Traffic to Your Blog

Improved tagging

Time for action – tagging blog posts

What just happened?

Sitewide tags

Time for action – sitewide tag clouds

What just happened?

Have a go hero – styling the tags page

Using pings

Time for action – pings

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more sites to ping

Trackbacks

Offering RSS feeds

Time for action – offering RSS subscription options

FeedBurner

Time for action – let's burn some feeds

What just happened?

Have a go hero – offering more RSS options

Twitter and social bookmarking

Getting your readers to share posts

Time for action – social bookmarking links

What just happened?

Have a go hero – Digg this

Pop quiz – traffic building

More about traffic building

Summary

7. Sticky Features for your Blog Network

What do people mean by "sticky"?

Letting readers and authors communicate

Contact forms

Time for action – setting up contact forms

What just happened?

Improved comments

Time for action – IntenseDebate Comments

What just happened?

Activating IntenseDebate on your users' blogs

Have a go hero – tweaking IntenseDebate

Community features—gravatars

Time for action – gravatars in WordPress MU

What just happened?

Have a go hero – gravatars and themes

Encouraging sign-ups with downloads for members only

Welcoming new visitors

Time for action – creating a welcome message

What just happened?

Related posts for visitors from search engines

Other ways to engage the community

Polls

Sitewide searching

Pop quiz – doing the thing

Summary

8. Adding Forums with bbPress

Installing bbPress

Time for action – installing bbPress

What just happened?

One login for both the forum and the blog

Time for action – user DB integration with WordPress MU

What just happened?

Handling new users

Time for action – blog and forum registrations

What just happened?

Seamless theme integration

Time for action – styling your forum

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more advanced styling and integration

Managing your forum

Time for action – managing your forum

What just happened?

Managing your users

Time for action – setting user permissions

What just happened?

Useful plugins for bbPress

Time for action – installing plugins

What just happened?

Have a go hero – sharing information between forum and blog

Displaying recent posts in your blog

Creating forum topics using blog posts

Pop quiz – doing the thing

Summary

9. Social Networking with BuddyPress

BuddyPress

Setting up BuddyPress

Time for action – installing the BuddyPress suite

What just happened?

BuddyPress plugins explained

Working with Extended Profiles

Private Messaging

Friends list

Groups

The Wire

Activity streams

Blog tracking

Forums

Themes for your BuddyPress network

Time for action – installing new themes

What just happened?

Have a go hero – designing your own theme

Putting BuddyPress content on your front page

Hooking up BuddyPress to other social networks

Time for action – Facebook Connect

What just happened?

Integrating with Twitter

Improving your site's performance

Time for action – speeding up BuddyPress

What just happened?

Pop quiz – so many things BuddyPress can do

The future of BuddyPress

Summary

10. Monetizing Your Site

Ways to monetize your site

Advertising networks as a revenue source

Selling ads directly

Ads in RSS feeds

Donate links

Revenue sharing

Premium memberships

Selling products via your site

Managing ads on WordPress MU

Time for action – ad management with Advertising Manager

What just happened?

Have a go hero - advertising

Revenue sharing

Time for action – revenue sharing

What just happened?

Premium memberships

MemberWing

EasyPaypal

Time for action – premium memberships

What just happened?

Have a go hero – hiding ads from paid members

Other ways to monetize your site—stores

Things to remember when monetizing your site

Summary

11. Site Optimization

Choosing to optimize your site

Speed up your site with caching

Time for action – setting up object cache

What just happened?

The downsides of caching and how to avoid them

More ways to speed up your site—optimizing themes

Spreading the load

Time for action – spreading the load

What just happened?

More theme optimization

Optimizing your database

Time for action – optimizing your site through phpMyAdmin

What just happened?

Have a go hero – automate that optimization!

Troubleshooting slow loading sites

Server side optimizations

Pop quiz – speed up your site

Summary

12. Troubleshooting and Maintaining your Site

Why worry about upgrades

Performing a safe upgrade

Performing a database backup via the command line

Performing a database backup via phpMyAdmin

Time for action – performing the upgrade

What just happened?

Troubleshooting—when upgrades go wrong

Solving database connection issues

Diagnosing unusual error messages

Error Message: Headers already sent...

Troubleshooting—common problems

Time for action – restoring a backup

What just happened?

Protecting your site from hackers

Patch regularly and use good passwords

Limit what your users can do

Avoiding social engineering

Pop quiz

Getting help online

Have a go hero – posting to request support

Summary

Index