WordPress Bible, 2nd Edition

  • 9h 22m
  • Aaron Brazell, Mark Jaquith
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2011

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Within a week of the announcement of WordPress 3.0, it had been downloaded over a million times. Now you can get on the bandwagon of this popular open-source blogging tool with WordPress Bible, 2nd Edition. Whether you're a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers the latest version of WordPress, from the basics through advanced application development. If you want to thoroughly learn WordPress, this is the book you need to succeed.

  • Explores the principles of blogging, marketing, and social media interaction
  • Shows you how to install and maintain WordPress
  • Thoroughly covers WordPress basics, then ramps up to advanced topics
  • Guides you through best security practices as both a user and a developer
  • Helps you enhance your blog’s findability in major search engines and create customizable and dynamic themes
  • Author maintains a high-profile blog in the WordPress community, Technosailor.com
  • Tech edited by Mark Jaquith, one of the lead developers of WordPress

The WordPress Bible is the only resource you need to learn WordPress from beginning to end.

About the Authors

Aaron Brazell is a WordPress expert, core contributor, and developer currently responsible for directing and developing a WordPress premium platform for customers. His WordPress knowledge extends back to the early days of the software, and he has worked on large-scale WordPress installations from both a technical/scaling perspective to complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the software plugin API. He maintains a business and technology blog, Technosailor.com.

Mark Jaquith is one of the lead developers of WordPress and an independent Web services consultant. With over four and a half years of extensive experience with WordPress, he has written several popular plugins and contributed countless patches to the core WordPress engine.

In this Book

  • Learning About WordPress
  • Installing and Configuring WordPress
  • WordPress, SEO, and Social Media Marketing
  • Finding Help in the WordPress Support System
  • Extending WordPress with Plugins
  • Building Widgets and Navigation Menus
  • Understanding the WordPress Database Class
  • Dissecting the Loop and WP_Query
  • Using Free or Premium Themes
  • Understanding the Template File Hierarchy
  • Adding JavaScript and CSS to Themes
  • Dissecting the Comment Loop, Template Tags, and Theme Best Practices
  • Navigating the Content Production Experience
  • Using Offline Editors
  • Performing Automatic Upgrades
  • Moving to WordPress and Backing It Up
  • WordPress Maintenance and Security
  • Caching Strategy to Ensure WordPress Scales
  • Understanding WordPress Roles and Capabilities
  • Using WordPress for Alternative Blogging
  • WordPress as a Content Management System
  • Leveraging WordPress Multisite Functionality
  • Adding User Forums with bbPress
  • Creating Your Own Social Network with BuddyPress
  • Using BackPress as a Development Framework
  • WordPress.com and the Automattic Products
  • Leveraging Automattic Products
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