Book description
Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 3.9’s themes, widgets, plug-ins, and souped-up editing and multimedia tools to build just about any kind of site.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Create your site. Get hands-on, A-to-Z instructions for building all types of websites, from classy blogs to professional-looking ecommerce sites.
- Add features. Choose from thousands of widgets and plug-ins to enhance your site’s ease of use, looks, and performance.
- Mix in multimedia. Add picture galleries, slideshows, video clips, music players, and podcasts to your pages.
- Attract an audience. Create automatic content feeds, sign up site subscribers, and help readers share your posts on social media.
- Fine-tune your content. Analyze site statistics to improve your content and reach, and to optimize your site for search engines.
- Go Mobile. Choose a theme that automatically reconfigures your site for mobile devices.
- Build a truly unique site. Learn how to customize WordPress themes to create a site that looks exactly the way you want it to.
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Table of contents
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
- I. Starting Out with WordPress
- 1. The WordPress Landscape
- 2. Signing Up with WordPress.com
- 3. Installing WordPress on Your Web Host
- II. Building a WordPress Blog
- 4. Creating Posts
- 5. Choosing and Polishing Your Theme
- 6. Jazzing Up Your Posts
- 7. Adding Pages and Menus
- 8. Comments: Letting Your Readers Talk Back
- III. Supercharging Your Blog
- 9. Getting New Features with Plug-Ins
- 10. Adding Picture Galleries, Video, and Music
- 11. Collaborating with Multiple Authors
- 12. Attracting a Crowd
- IV. From Blog to Website
- 13. Editing Themes: The Key to Customizing Your Site
- 14. Building an Advanced WordPress Site
- V. Appendixes
- A. Migrating from WordPress.com
- B. Securing a Self-Hosted Site
- C. Useful Websites
- Index
Product information
- Title: WordPress: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449341909
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