WordPress For Dummies
9th Edition
Published on 1. December 2020
480 pages
978-1-119-69698-8 (ISBN)
Description
Get to know WordPress with this simple and approachable reference
WordPress For Dummies, 9th Edition helps readers discover the power of the WordPress web content building tool. Web builders have created 75 million websites using WordPress and this book will show you how to add your blogs and websites to that count.
WordPress For Dummies, 9th Edition drops you right into the fast lane to publishing your first website or blog by teaching you to:
· Customize a theme
· Create your first post
· Use WordPress as a content management system
· Work with multimedia formats
· Add plugins to your site
· Establish a publishing routine
Perfect for new bloggers, experienced bloggers converting to WordPress for the first time, and people accustomed to WordPress who want to learn more about the full potential of the technology, WordPress for Dummies, 9th Edition is an indispensable addition to the library of every blogger and webmaster.
WordPress For Dummies, 9th Edition helps readers discover the power of the WordPress web content building tool. Web builders have created 75 million websites using WordPress and this book will show you how to add your blogs and websites to that count.
WordPress For Dummies, 9th Edition drops you right into the fast lane to publishing your first website or blog by teaching you to:
· Customize a theme
· Create your first post
· Use WordPress as a content management system
· Work with multimedia formats
· Add plugins to your site
· Establish a publishing routine
Perfect for new bloggers, experienced bloggers converting to WordPress for the first time, and people accustomed to WordPress who want to learn more about the full potential of the technology, WordPress for Dummies, 9th Edition is an indispensable addition to the library of every blogger and webmaster.
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Lisa Sabin-Wilson is cofounder of WebDevStudios, one of the largest WordPress design and development agencies in the world. She is a regular public speaker at national events on topics such as WordPress, development, design, CSS, and social media.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 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 Basics
- Shining the Spotlight on WordPress
- Dipping Into WordPress 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 differences between a website and a blog
- Viewing examples of blogs and websites
- Moving On to the Business of Publishing
- Part 2 Setting Up WordPress
- Chapter 3 Setting Up Your WordPress 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 Website
- Getting help with hosting WordPress
- Dealing with disk space and bandwidth
- Understanding Secure File Transfer Concepts
- Setting up SFTP on your hosting account
- Connecting to the web server via SFTP
- Transferring files from point A to point B
- Editing files via SFTP
- Changing file permissions
- Installing WordPress
- Exploring Preinstalled WordPress
- Installing WordPress manually
- Setting up the MySQL database
- Uploading the WordPress files
- Last step: Running the installation script
- Chapter 4 Understanding the WordPress.org Dashboard
- Logging In to the Dashboard
- Navigating the Dashboard
- Welcome to WordPress!
- Site Health
- At a Glance
- Activity
- Quick Draft
- WordPress Events and News
- Arranging the Dashboard to Your Tastes
- Finding Inline Documentation and Help
- Setting Options in the Dashboard
- Configuring the Settings
- General
- Writing
- Reading
- Discussion
- Media
- Permalinks
- Privacy
- Creating Your Personal Profile
- Setting Your Site's Format
- Posts
- Media
- Pages
- Comments
- Appearance
- Plugins
- Users
- Tools
- Chapter 5 Establishing Your Publishing Routine
- Staying on Topic with Categories
- Changing the name of a category
- Creating new categories and deleting others
- Examining a 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
- Writing Your First Entry
- Using the Block Editor
- Discovering available blocks
- Inserting new blocks
- Configuring block settings
- Refining Your Post Options
- Publishing Your Post
- Being Your Own Editor
- Look Who's Talking on Your Site
- Managing comments and trackbacks
- Moderating comments and trackbacks
- Tackling spam with Akismet
- Part 3 Flexing and Extending WordPress
- Chapter 6 Media Management: Images, Audio, and Video
- Inserting Images into Your Content
- Uploading an image from your computer
- Inserting an image from the Media Library
- Using the Columns Block to Insert Multiple Images in a Row
- Inserting a Cover Image into a Post
- Inserting a Photo Gallery
- Inserting Video Files into Your Posts
- Adding a link to a video from the web
- Adding video from your computer
- Adding video using the Embed block
- Inserting Audio Files into Your Blog Posts
- Inserting Audio Using the Embed Block
- Podcasting with WordPress
- Chapter 7 Making the Most of WordPress Plugins
- Finding Out What Plugins Are
- Extending WordPress with plugins
- Distinguishing between plugins and themes
- Exploring the Plugins Page
- Identifying Core Plugins
- Incorporating Akismet
- Saying Hello Dolly
- Discovering the one-click plugin update
- 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 a plugin
- Setting Plugin Options
- Uninstalling Plugins
- Understanding the Open-Source Environment
- Finding Plugins Beyond WordPress.org
- Comparing Free and Commercial Plugins
- Chapter 8 Finding and Installing WordPress Themes
- Getting Started with Free Themes
- Finding free themes
- Avoiding unsafe themes
- Previewing themes on the Themes page
- Installing a Theme
- Browsing the free themes
- Previewing and activating a theme
- Exploring Premium Theme Options
- Examining the Default Theme: Twenty Twenty
- Exploring the layout and structure
- Customizing the site identity
- Customizing colors
- Including custom navigation menus
- Enhancing Your Theme with Widgets
- Adding widgets to your website
- Using the Text widget
- Using the RSS widget
- Part 4 Customizing WordPress
- Chapter 9 Understanding Themes and Templates
- Using WordPress Themes: The Basics
- Understanding theme structure
- Connecting templates
- Contemplating the Structure of a WordPress Website
- 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 Posts with Template Tags
- Using Tags with Parameters for Sidebars
- The calendar
- List pages
- Post archives
- Categories
- Getting widgetized
- Chapter 10 Tweaking WordPress Themes
- Styling with CSS: The Basics
- CSS selectors
- Classes and IDs
- CSS properties and values
- Changing the Background Graphics with CSS
- Uploading an image for background use
- Positioning, repeating, and attaching images
- Using Your Own Header Image
- Customizing Colors in Twenty Twenty
- Creating Custom Navigation Menus
- Building custom navigation menus
- Displaying custom menus with widgets
- Changing Font Family, Color, and Size
- Changing font color
- Changing font size
- Adding borders
- Understanding Basic HTML Techniques
- Inserting images
- Inserting hyperlinks
- Inserting lists
- Chapter 11 Understanding Parent and Child Themes
- Customizing Theme Style with Child Themes
- 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
- Modifying the functions.php file
- Preparing a Parent Theme
- Chapter 12 WordPress As a Content Management System
- Creating Different Page Views Using WordPress Templates
- Uploading the template
- Assigning the template to a static page
- Creating a Template for Each Post Category
- Using Sidebar Templates
- Creating Custom Styles for Sticky, Category, and Tag Posts
- Working with Custom Post Types
- Adding Support for Taxonomies
- Adding Support for Post Thumbnails
- Adding the post thumbnails to a theme
- Adding custom image sizes for post thumbnails
- Optimizing Your WordPress Site
- Planting keywords on your website
- Optimizing your post titles for search engine success
- Writing content with readers in mind
- Creating categories that attract search engines
- Using the &ALT& tag for images
- Chapter 13 Hosting Multiple Sites with WordPress
- Deciding When to Use the Multisite Feature
- Understanding the Difference between Sites and Blogs
- Considering Web-Hosting Services
- Enabling the WordPress Network Feature
- DNS
- Apache mod_rewrite
- Virtual host
- PHP
- Installing the Network on Your Site
- Exploring the Network Admin Dashboard Menu
- Managing Your Network
- Settings
- Sites
- Users
- Themes
- Plugins
- Stopping Spam Signups and Splogs
- Chapter 14 Upgrading, Backing Up, and Migrating
- Getting Notified of an Available Upgrade
- Backing Up Your Database
- Upgrading WordPress Automatically
- Upgrading WordPress Manually
- Migrating Your Existing Site to WordPress
- Movin' on up
- Preparing for the big move
- Converting templates
- Moving your website to WordPress
- Importing from Blogger
- Importing from LiveJournal
- Importing from Movable Type and TypePad
- Importing from Tumblr
- 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
- Part 5 The Part of Tens
- Chapter 15 Ten Popular WordPress Plugins
- Custom Post Type UI
- Jetpack
- Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
- Cookie Notice for GDPR & CCPA
- Yoast SEO
- BackupBuddy
- WP Super Cache
- WooCommerce
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Sucuri Security
- Chapter 16 Ten Free WordPress Themes
- Hybrid Core
- Hestia
- Responsive
- Ashe
- Prefer Blog
- BlackBird
- Storefront
- Sinatra
- Nisarg
- Optics
- Index
- EULA
