WordPress® For Dummies®, 6th Edition

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You Are Not to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Introducing WordPress

Part II: Using the WordPress Hosted Service

Part III: Self-Hosting with WordPress.org

Part IV: Flexing and Extending WordPress

Part V: Customizing WordPress

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Introducing WordPress

Chapter 1: What WordPress Can Do for You

Discovering the Benefits of WordPress

Getting set up the fast and easy way

Extending WordPress’s capabilities

Taking part in the community

Choosing a WordPress Platform

Choosing the hosted version from WordPress.com

Self-hosting with WordPress.org

Chapter 2: WordPress Blogging Basics

This Crazy Little Thing Called Blog

Dipping into Blog Technologies

Archiving your publishing history

Interacting with your readers through comments

Feeding your readers

Tracking back

Dealing with comment and trackback spam

Using WordPress as a Content Management System

Exploring the difference between a website and a blog

Viewing examples: Blog versus website

Moving On to the Business of Blogging

Part II: Using the WordPress Hosted Service

Chapter 3: Getting Started with WordPress

Creating a WordPress Account

Navigating WordPress

Using the WordPress Dashboard

Right Now

Recent Comments

Your Stuff

What’s Hot

Quick Draft

Recent Drafts

Stats

Hiding and unhiding modules on the Dashboard

Setting Important Options before You Blog

Setting your General options

Adjusting your Date and Time settings

Setting your public profile: Tell us a little about yourself

Setting your preferences

Chapter 4: Writing and Managing Your Blog

Ready? Set? Blog!

Inserting media files into your post

Refining your post options

Publishing your post

Organizing Your Blog by Subject

Creating categories and subcategories

Filing posts in categories and subcategories

Creating and Categorizing Your Blogroll

Creating link categories

Adding new links to your blogroll

Managing and Inviting Users

Managing authors and users

Inviting friends to WordPress.com

Managing Comments and Comment Spam

Setting discussion options for your blog

Viewing comments

Creating a Static Page

Setting Up Your Front Page

Publishing a Public or Private Blog

Publicizing through Social Media

Making sharing easy

Clicking the Like button

Establishing Trust Relationships with OpenID

Chapter 5: Enhancing Your Blog with Themes, Widgets, and Upgrades

Changing Your Blog’s Look

Enhancing Your Theme with Features

Adding navigation menus

Changing the background color and image

Creating a mobile-friendly display

Changing the header image

Using the Custom Design upgrade

Widget Wonder: Adding Handy Tools to Your Sidebar

Selecting and activating widgets

Using the Text widget

Using the RSS widget

Upgrading Your WordPress Account (for a Fee)

Naming Your Domain

Part III: Self-Hosting with WordPress.org

Chapter 6: Setting Up Blogging Base Camp

Establishing Your Domain

Understanding domain name extensions

Considering the cost of a domain name

Registering your domain name

Finding a Home for Your Blog

Getting help with hosting WordPress

Dealing with disk space and bandwidth

Transferring Files from Point A to Point B

Installing WordPress

Installing WordPress manually

Setting up the MySQL database

Uploading the WordPress files

Last step: Running the install script

Chapter 7: Understanding the WordPress.org Dashboard

Logging In to the Dashboard

Navigating the Dashboard

At a Glance

Activity

Quick Draft

WordPress News

Arranging the Dashboard to Your Tastes

Finding Inline Documentation and Help

Creating your own work space

Setting Options on the Dashboard

Configuring the Settings

General

Writing

Reading

Discussion

Media

Permalinks

Creating Your Personal Profile

Setting Your Blog’s Format

Posts

Media

Pages

Comments

Appearance

Plugins

Users

Tools

Chapter 8: Establishing Your Blog Routine

Staying on Topic with Categories

Changing the name of a category

Creating new categories and deleting others

Examining a Blog Post’s Address: Permalinks

Making your post links pretty

Customizing your permalinks

Making sure that your permalinks work with your server

Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options

Blog It!: Writing Your First Entry

Composing your blog post

Dressing up your posts with images, video, and audio

Refining your post options

Publishing your post

Editing your posts

Look Who’s Talking on Your Blog

Managing comments and trackbacks

Moderating comments and trackbacks

Tackling spam with Akismet

Part IV: Flexing and Extending WordPress

Chapter 9: Media Management: Images, Audio, and Video

Inserting Images into Your Blog Posts

Aligning your images

Inserting a photo gallery

Inserting Video Files into Your Blog Posts

Inserting Audio Files into Your Blog Posts

Keeping Media Files Organized

Chapter 10: Making the Most of WordPress Plugins

Finding Out What Plugins Are

Exploring the Plugins page

Discovering the one-click plugin update

Exploring the Plugins Included with WordPress

Incorporating Akismet

Saying Hello Dolly

Using Plugins: Just the Basics

Installing Plugins Manually

Finding and downloading the files

Reading the instructions

Uploading and Activating Plugins

Uploading a new plugin

Activating the plugin

Setting Plugin Options

Uninstalling Plugins

Understanding the Open Source Environment

Chapter 11: Finding and Installing WordPress Themes

Getting Started with Free Themes

Finding free themes

Avoiding unsafe themes

Previewing themes

Downloading themes

Activating a New Theme

Browsing and Installing Themes from the Dashboard

Deciding to Use Commercial Themes

Part V: Customizing WordPress

Chapter 12: Understanding Themes and Templates

Using WordPress Themes: The Basics

Understanding theme structure

Connecting templates

Contemplating the Structure of a WordPress Blog

Examining the Anatomy of a Template Tag

Getting Familiar with the Four Main Templates

The Header template

The Main Index template

The Sidebar template

The Footer template

Other templates

Putting a Theme Together

Connecting the templates

Using additional stylesheets

Customizing Your Blog Posts with Template Tags

Using Tags with Parameters for Sidebars

The calendar

List pages

Post archives

Categories

Getting widgetized

Chapter 13: Tweaking WordPress Themes

Styling with CSS: The Basics

CSS selectors

Classes and IDs

CSS properties and values

Changing the Background Color

Creating a custom background

Changing the background using CSS

Using Your Own Header Image

Creating Custom Navigation Menus

Adding the Custom Menu feature to your theme

Building custom navigation menus

Displaying Custom Menus using widgets

Changing Font Family, Color, and Size

Changing font color

Changing font size

Borders

Finding additional CSS resources

Understanding Basic HTML Techniques

Inserting images

Inserting hyperlinks

Inserting lists

Customizing Theme Style with Child Themes

Creating a child theme

Loading a parent theme’s style

Customizing the parent theme’s styling

Using images in child theme designs

Modifying Theme Structure with Child Themes

Overriding parent template files

Adding new template files

Removing template files

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 14: Ten Popular WordPress Plugins

AppPresser — Mobile App Framework

Jetpack

Subscribe to Comments

Facebook

All in One SEO Pack

BackupBuddy

WP Super Cache

Twitter Tools

Google XML Sitemaps

Sucuri Sitecheck Malware Scanner

Chapter 15: Ten Free WordPress Themes

Hybrid

designPile

Responsive

P2

Annotum Base

Blackbird

iTheme

Esquire

WP-Creativix

Gridline

Chapter 16: Upgrading, Backing Up, and Migrating

Getting Notified of an Available Upgrade

Backing Up Your Database

Upgrading WordPress Automatically

Upgrading WordPress Manually

Migrating Your Existing Blog to WordPress

Movin’ on up

Preparing for the big move

Converting templates

Moving your blog to WordPress

Importing from Blogspot/Blogger

Importing from LiveJournal

Importing from Movable Type and Typepad

Importing from WordPress

Importing from an RSS feed

Finding other import resources

Moving Your Website to a Different Host

Creating a backup and moving manually

Using a plugin to back up and move to a new host

About the Author

Cheat Sheet

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Foreword

There used to be a program from Microsoft called FrontPage that was the first visual interface for creating websites that I saw. It worked like Word or Publisher, so with very little knowledge, I was able to hack together the world’s worst website in just a few hours without worrying about what was going on under the hood.

Years later when I look back at that website, I cringe, but at the time it was incredibly empowering. The software, though crude, helped me publish something anybody in the entire world could see. It opened up a world I had never imagined before.

Now, using software like WordPress, you can have a blog or website light years beyond my first one in both functionality and aesthetics. However, just as my first web experience whetted my appetite for more, I hope that your experience entices you to explore the thousands of free plugins, themes, and customizations possible with WordPress, many of which are explained in this book.

WordPress is more than just software; it is a community, a rapidly evolving ecosystem, and a set of philosophies and opinions about how to create the best web experience. When you embrace it, you’ll be in good company. WordPress users include old media organizations such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, along with millions of personal bloggers like myself for whom a WordPress blog is a means of expression.

Matt Mullenweg
Cofounder of WordPress

Introduction

It was 2003 when I discovered the WordPress blogging software. Way back then (and in Internet years, that’s actually quite a lot of time) I used Movable Type as my blogging platform. My friend Chelle introduced me to the WordPress software. “Try it,” she said. “You’ll really like it.”

As a creature of habit, I felt reluctant to make the change. But I haven’t looked back. I’ve been with WordPress ever since.

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