8. Adding Other Content

Adding Other Content

Chapter 7 discusses some useful plugins for adding features to your server-installed WordPress blog. If there’s no suitable plugin available for the content you want to add, you may be able to get the desired result by adding coding directly to your theme’s files.

In this chapter we suggest some possibilities for extending your blog beyond what’s possible with plugins. We show you how to display information about the blog’s author, easily add distinctive images to posts from different authors, see statistics about the blog, use a favicon, and perhaps make a little money with Google AdSense. Since these tasks all require you to edit theme files, this chapter applies only to server-installed WordPress ...

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