WordPress 3.5 Complete: Third Edition电子书

WordPress 3.7 Complete Third Edition

Table of Contents

WordPress 3.7 Complete Third Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.packtpub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

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. Introducing WordPress

Getting into WordPress

Using it for a blog or website

Understanding the common terms

Post

Categories and tags

Comments

Theme

Plugin

Widget

Menus

RSS

Page

Users

Choosing WordPress – the reason why

A long time in refining

Active in development

Large community of contributors

Amazingly extendable

Getting to know the WordPress family

Digging into WordPress – the features

Getting familiar with the new feature list since 3.0

Learning more

Learning more with the online WordPress resources

Staying updated through WordPress news

Understanding the Codex

Getting support from other users

Using theme and plugin directories

Summary

2. Getting Started

Building your WordPress website – start here

Using WordPress.com

Publishing your first content on a WordPress.com blog

Installing WordPress manually

Preparing the environment

Downloading WordPress

Upgrading from an earlier version of WordPress

Uploading the files

Installing WordPress

Installing WordPress through a hand-built configuration file

Learning more

Installing WordPress through an autoinstaller script

The WP Admin panel

Changing general blog information

Creating your first post

Writing your first comment

Retrieving a lost password

Getting a Gravatar

Summary

3. Creating Blog Content

WP Admin conventions

Lists of items

Posting on your blog

Adding a simple post

Common post options

Categories and tags

Images in your posts

Adding an image to a post

Controlling default image sizes

Editing an uploaded image

Designating a featured image

Using the visual editor versus text editor

Lead and body

Drafts, pending articles, timestamps, and managing posts

Drafts

Pending articles

Timestamps

Managing posts

Advanced post options

Excerpt

Sending pingbacks and trackbacks

Discussion

Custom Fields

Working with post revisions

Changing the author of the post

Protecting content

The pretty post slug

Custom post format settings

Additional writing options

Press This

Posting via e-mail

External blogging tools

Mobile apps for iOS and Android

Discussion on your blog – comments

Adding a comment

Discussion settings

Submission, notification, and moderation settings

When to moderate or blacklist a comment

Avatar display settings

Moderating comments

How to eliminate comment spam

Getting an Akismet API key

Activating Akismet

Adding and managing categories

Summary

4. Pages, Menus, Media Library, and More

Pages

Adding a page

Parent

Template

Order

Managing pages

Menus

Adding a menu

Displaying a menu

Header

Advanced site customization

Links

Adding a new link

Displaying links

Managing links and categories

Media library

Media Manager

Adding an image gallery

Choosing a post or page

Selecting/uploading images

Importing/exporting your content

Importing content

Exporting content

Summary

5. Plugins and Widgets

Breaking down plugins – what are they?

Why to use plugins

Where to get plugins

Finding new plugins

Installing a plugin – the how-to

Manual plugin installation

Autoinstallation

The must-have pack of plugins

Backing up

Enabling Google Analytics

Caching

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Securing your site

Jetpack

Switching to maintenance mode

Widgets

Summary

6. Choosing and Installing Themes

Finding themes

WordPress Themes Directory

Main types of themes

Finding more themes

Some not-design-related theme basics

The structure of a theme

Factors to consider when choosing a theme

The purpose of the theme

Theme licensing

Up-to-date themes only

Themes that are customizable

Themes with responsive structure

Support, reviews, and documentation

Installing and changing themes

Adding a theme within the WP Admin

Downloading, extracting, and uploading

Summary

7. Developing Your Own Theme

Setting up your design

Designing your theme to be WordPress friendly

Two paths of theme development

Building a theme from the ground up

Building a theme with a framework

Converting your design to code

Examining the HTML structure

Examining the CSS

Converting your build into a theme

Creating the theme folder

Adding WordPress content

The functions.php file

The <head> tag

The header and footer

The sidebar

The main column – the loop

Creating templates within your theme

Understanding the WordPress theme

Breaking it up

header.php

footer.php

The sidebar.php file

Your four template files

Archive template

Single template

Page template

Generated classes for body and post

Other WordPress templates

Creating and using a custom page template

Making your theme widget friendly

Going back to our "static" sidebar

Working with functions.php

Adding conditional code to sidebar

Adding some widgets

Further widgetizing options

Enabling a menu in your theme

Creating a child theme

Creating the new theme directory

Creating the stylesheet

Using your child theme

Sharing your theme

Summary

8. Feeds, Podcasting, and Offline Blogging

Feed basics

Feed readers

Learning more

Your built-in WordPress feeds

Adding feed links

Feeds for the whole website

Feeds for comments

Tracking subscribers with FeedBurner

Burning your feed on FeedBurner

FeedBurner plugin

Podcasting

Creating a podcast

Recording yourself

Making a post

Dedicated podcasting

Podcasting plugins

Using a service to host audio files for free

Offline blogging tools

The benefits

The tools

Using Windows Live Writer

Summary

9. Developing Plugins and Widgets

Plugins

Building plugins from scratch

Plugin code requirements

Basic plugin – adding link icons

Naming and organizing the plugin files

Writing the plugin's core functions

Adding hooks to the plugin

Trying out the plugin

Adding an admin page

Adding management page functions

Modifying the ahs_doctypes_regex() function

Adding hooks

Trying out the plugin

Testing your plugins

Plugin with DB access – capturing searched words

Getting the plugin to talk to the database

Adding management page functions

Trying out the plugin

Learning more

Widgets

Custom tag cloud widget

Naming our widget

Widget structure

Widget initiation function

Widget form function

Widget save function

Widget print function

Custom widget styles

Initiating and hooking up the widget

Trying out the widget

Learning more

Bundling a widget with an existing plugin

Shortcodes

Shortcodes and the way they work

Types of shortcodes

Creating a simple shortcode

Enabling shortcodes in widgets

Summary

10. Community Blogging

Concerns for a multiauthor blog

User roles and abilities

Super Admin

Administrator

Editor

Author

Contributor

Subscriber

Managing users

Enabling users to self register

Learning more

User management plugins

Creating a multisite website

Summary

11. Creating a Non-blog Website Part One – The Basics

The must-do tasks

Static websites

The process

Building your home page

Creating easy-to-grasp menus

Corporate or business websites

Picking a clean theme

Branding elements

Good navigation

Custom home page

Optional slider

Meteor Slides

SlideDeck 2 Lite Responsive Content Slider

E-commerce stores

Standard setup

Getting the plugin

Custom menu for the store

Main settings of the plugin

Custom container page for the store

Adding products

Stats – orders, coupons, and reports

Summary

12. Creating a Non-blog Website Part Two – Community Websites and Custom Content Elements

Membership websites

Taking the simple approach

Using membership plugins

Taking the free approach

Installing the plugin

Using the plugin

Video and photo blogs

Exploring themes for video and photo sites

Getting plugins for video and photo sites

Social networks

Installing a social network

Designing your social network

Extending the functionality

User accounts and activity

Introducing custom post types

Registering a new post type

Adding labels

Adding messages

Creating book template files

Registering and using a custom taxonomy

Customizing the admin display

Summary

Index