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

Plumley, George

 
9780470554586: WordPress 24-Hour Trainer: Watch, Read, and Learn How to Create and Customize WordPress Sites

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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
* Installing and activating plugins

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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A unique introduction to building web sites with WordPress
 
WordPress is today's most popular open source blog publishing application, but its powerful features, simple interface, and easy expansion make it a great content management system for all types of web sites. This unique book-and-video package provides you with beginner-friendly tutorials for building and maintaining a WordPress web site. You'll discover how to customize WordPress to meet your needs and you'll see how critical--and simple--it is to expand and update content in order to make your site as effective as possible.
* Walks you through installing the software, provides an overview of the administration interface, and covers the basic settings you'll need to get started
* Examines the ins and outs of uploading images, video, documents, etc., and using them on your site
* Demonstrates how to customize the look of your site using cascading style sheets
* Reviews helpful techniques for optimizing your site and making it search-engine friendly
* Explains how to track your site's statistics, keep your plugins and themes up to date, and practice smart backup habits
* Addresses installing, activating, and troubleshooting plugins
 
Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.
 
On the DVD
 
Don't just learn--do!
 
The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.
 
You'll learn to:
* Plan your site for WordPress
* Write and add a new post
* Handle revisions
* Add new pages & sub pages
* Work with image galleries
* Manage media files, posts, categories, and widgets
* Link to other sites
* Approve, edit, and delete comments
* Customize the design and layout
* Optimize your content
* Extend WordPress
 
Please see the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

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