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WordPress 24-Hour Trainer
Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites

Synopsis:

Don't let WordPress intimidate you. "WordPress 24-Hour Trainer" is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson. This book is the perfect guide to: planning and preparing your site for WordPress; installing WordPress; writing, tagging, and publishing a post; working with the text editor; styling paragraphs and creating lists; working with media files; linking, aligning, and sizing an image; working with image galleries; adding video and audio; naming, scheduling, and managing posts; making your site stand out; helping others connect to your site; becoming search engine friendly; optimizing your site; backing up your site; and installing and activating plugins.

Author Biography:

George Plumley is a web developer who now builds sites almost exclusively using WordPress. He runs the WordPress tutorial site www.seehowtwo.com.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

Part I, Before You Start. Chapter 1, Thinking Like Wordpress. Chapter 2, Planning Your Site for Wordpress.

Part II, Firing Up Wordpress. Chapter 3, Installing Wordpress. Chapter 4, Admin Area Overview. Chapter 5, Basic Admin Settings.

Part Iii, Working With Written Content. Chapter 6, Adding a New Post - Overview. Chapter 7, Working With The Text Editor. Chapter 8, Laying Out Text. Chapter 9, Advanced Post Options. Chapter 10, Adding a New Page.

Part IV, Working With Media Content. Chapter 11, The Basics of Handling Media Files. Chapter 12, The Upload/insert Window Tabs. Chapter 13, Image Options in Detail. Chapter 14, Editing and Laying Out Images. Chapter 15, Working With Image Galleries. Chapter 16, Adding Video and Audio. Chapter 17, Adding Documents.

Part V, Managing Your Content. Chapter 18, Managing Posts and Pages. Chapter 19, Managing Media Files. Chapter 20, Managing Post Categories and Tags. Chapter 21, Managing Widgets.

Part VI, Making Your Site Social. Chapter 22, Linking to Other Sites. Chapter 23, Managing Comments. Chapter 24, Connecting to Content on Other Sites. Chapter 25, Helping Others Connect to Your Site. Chapter 26, Having Multiple Site Users.

Part Vii, Customizing The Look of Your Site. Chapter 27, Customizing Your Header Content. Chapter 28, Customizing The Look of Posts. Chapter 29, Customizing Design and Layout.

Part Viii, Becoming Search Engine Friendly. Chapter 30, Optimizing Your Content. Chapter 31, Optimizing Your Site as a Whole.

Part IX, Housekeeping Chores. Chapter 32, How Is Your Site Doing? Chapter 33, Keeping Up to Date. Chapter 34, Backing Up Your Site.

Part X, Extending Wordpress. Chapter 35, Installing and Activating Plugins. Chapter 36, Example Plugins. Chapter 37, Ten Other Common Uses for Plugins. Chapter 38, Extending Wordpress Even Further. Appendix A, Troubleshooting Wordpress. Appendix B, Glossary. Appendix C, What's on The Dvd? Index.

Additional Information:

Illustrations: illustrations Related subjects: Internet