One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily and better yet, it’s free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.
Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You’ll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.
What you'll learn
- How to get started with WordPress, create new content, and import existing content
- How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more
- How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting
- How to create themes, widgets, and plugins
- How to publish, move, maintain, and secure your WordPress sites
Who this book is for
This book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: About WordPress
Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading
Chapter 3: Dashboard and Settings
Chapter 4: Working with Content
Chapter 5: Importing Content
Chapter 6: Creating a Basic Theme
Chapter 7: Creating an Advanced Theme
Chapter 8: Creating Widgets
Chapter 9: Creating Plugins
Chapter 10: Users and Roles
Chapter 11: Performance and Security
Chapter 12: Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields
Chapter 13: Setting up the Network
Appendix 1: Plugin Index
Appendix 2: Theme Functions
Appendix 3: Plugin Recipes
About the Author
Stephanie Leary is a web developer for Texas A&M University and the co-owner of Paged Media, a freelance business catering to authors and other publishing professionals. She began developing themes and plugins for WordPress in 2005, and has taught numerous workshops on using WordPress as a content management system.
Book Details
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (June, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430228954
- ISBN-13: 978-1430228950
- File Size: 8.6 MiB
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