WordPress: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. The Missing Credits
2. Introduction
3. Chapter 1: The WordPress Landscape
   1. How WordPress Works
   2. What You Can Build with WordPress
   3. The Last Word
4. Chapter 2: Installing WordPress on Your Web Host
   1. Choosing a Web Host
   2. Preparing for WordPress
   3. Installing WordPress
   4. Keeping WordPress Up-to-Date
   5. The Last Word
5. Chapter 3: Testing WordPress on Your Computer
   1. The WordPress Stack
   2. Setting Up a Site with Local
   3. Managing Your Local Sites
   4. The Last Word
6. Chapter 4: Creating Posts
   1. Introducing the Admin Area
   2. Administration Practice
   3. Adding Your First Post
   4. Organizing Your Posts
   5. Working with Several Posts at Once
   6. How to Get High-Quality Web Addresses
   7. The Last Word
7. Chapter 5: Choosing and Polishing Your Theme
   1. How Themes Work
   2. Choosing a Theme
   3. Tweaking Your Theme
   4. Customizing Your Widgets
   5. Responsive Themes
   6. The Last Word
8. Chapter 6: Making Fancier Posts
   1. Simple Text Formatting
   2. Understanding Blocks
   3. Using the Essential Blocks
   4. Working with More Exotic Blocks
   5. Managing Your Blocks
   6. Creating Personalized Blocks
   7. The Last Word
9. Chapter 7: Adding Pictures, Videos, and More
   1. Adding a Basic Picture
   2. Working with the Media Library
   3. Adding Featured Images
   4. Embedding a Video
   5. Playing Audio Files
   6. Embedding Other Types of Content
   7. The Last Word
10. Chapter 8: Creating Pages and Menus
    1. Understanding Page Basics
    2. Showing Pages with a Menu
    3. Changing Your Home Page
    4. Creating Better Home Pages with Templates
    5. The Last Word
11. Chapter 9: Getting New Features with Plugins
    1. How Plugins Work
    2. The Jetpack Plugin
    3. The Last Word
12. Chapter 10: Comments: Letting Your Readers Talk Back
    1. Allowing or Forbidding Comments
    2. The Life Cycle of a Comment
    3. The Ongoing Conversation
    4. Making Comments More Personal with Gravatars
    5. Using Facebook and Twitter Comments
    6. Stamping Out Comment Spam
    7. The Last Word
13. Chapter 11: Collaborating with Multiple Authors
    1. Adding People to Your Site
    2. Working with Authors
    3. Building a Private Community
    4. Creating a Network of Sites
    5. The Last Word
14. Chapter 12: Attracting a Crowd
    1. Encouraging Your Readers to Share
    2. Keeping Readers in the Loop
    3. Search Engine Optimization
    4. WordPress Site Statistics
    5. The Last Word
15. Chapter 13: Editing Themes to Customize Your Site
    1. The Goal: More Flexible Blogs and Sites
    2. Protecting Yourself with a Child Theme
    3. Decoding the Style Rules in Your Theme
    4. Changing the Twenty Twenty Styles
    5. Editing the Code in Your Theme
    6. Changing a Twenty Twenty Template
    7. The Last Word
16. Chapter 14: More Tools for Professional Sites
    1. Disaster Proofing with Backups
    2. Better Performance with Caching
    3. Adding Ecommerce to Your Site
    4. A Final Grab Bag of Useful Plugins
    5. The Last Word
17. Index