WordPress 2.7 Complete -- Table of Contents -- WordPress 2.7 Complete -- Credits -- About the authors -- About the reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to WordPress -- What is a blog? -- Common terms -- Post -- Categories and tags -- Comments -- Permalinks -- Theme -- RSS -- Page -- What is WordPress? -- Why choose WordPress? -- A long time in refining -- Active in development -- Large community of contributors -- Amazingly extendable -- Detailed feature list -- Learning more -- Online WordPress resources -- WordPress news -- Learning more -- The Codex -- Theme and plugin directories -- WordPress.com -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started -- Where to build your WordPress website -- Building on WordPress.com -- Installing WordPress manually -- Preparing the environment -- Downloading WordPress -- Uploading the files -- Installing WordPress -- Learning More -- Upgrading WordPress from older installations -- Learning More -- The WP Admin panel -- Changing the password -- Changing general blog information -- Your first post -- Your first comment -- Retrieving a lost password -- Summary -- 3. Blogging Your Heart Out -- Posting on your blog -- Adding a simple post -- Common post options -- Categories and tags -- Adding an image to a post -- Using the Visual editor versus the HTML editor -- Drafts, timestamps, and managing posts -- Drafts -- Timestamps -- Managing posts -- Advanced post options -- Excerpt -- Trackbacks -- Discussion -- Custom Fields -- Password and private protection -- Post slug -- Additional writing options -- Press This -- Posting via email -- Discussion on your blog-comments -- Adding a comment -- Discussion settings.

Submission, notification, and moderation settings -- When to moderate or blacklist a comment -- Avatar display settings -- Moderating comments -- How to eliminate comment spam -- Getting a WordPress.com API key -- Activating Akismet -- Adding and managing categories -- Summary -- 4. Pages, Images, Plugins, and More -- Pages -- Adding a page -- Parent -- Template -- Order -- Managing pages -- Links -- Adding a new link -- Managing links and categories -- Media library -- Adding an image gallery -- Choosing a post or page -- Uploading images -- Tweaking your gallery -- Adding captions to thumbnails -- Changing the size of the images in the gallery -- Changing the image page -- Adding plugins -- Finding your plugin -- Downloading the plugin -- Uploading and activating the plugin -- Configuring and/or implementing-if necessary -- Auto-installation -- Summary -- 5. Choosing and Installing Themes -- Finding themes -- WordPress Theme Directory -- Top WP themes -- Template Monster -- Finding more themes -- Factors to consider when choosing a theme -- Installing and changing themes -- What makes a theme? -- Downloading and extracting -- Uploading the theme -- Previewing and activating -- Using widgets -- Enabling basic widgets -- Multiple sidebars -- Adding new widgets -- Summary -- 6. Developing Your Own Theme -- Setting up your design -- Designing your theme to be WordPress-friendly -- Converting your design to code -- Examining the HTML structure -- Examining the CSS -- Converting your build into a theme -- Creating the theme folder -- Adding WordPress content -- The tag -- The header and footer -- The sidebar -- Main column-the loop -- Creating templates within your theme -- Understanding the WordPress theme -- Breaking it up -- header.php -- footer.php -- sidebar.php -- Your four template files -- Archive template -- Single template.

Page template -- Other WordPress templates -- Creating and using a custom template -- Making your theme widget-friendly -- Making sure your sidebar is one big tag -- Adding functions.php -- Adding conditional code to sidebar -- Adding some widgets -- Further widgetizing options -- Learning more -- Sharing your theme -- Summary -- 7. Feeds and Podcasting -- Feed basics -- Feed readers -- Learning more -- Your built-in WordPress feeds -- Adding feed links -- Feeds for the whole website -- Feeds for categories -- Feeds for post comments -- Tracking subscribers with FeedBurner -- Create FeedBurner account -- FeedSmith plugin -- Aggregating feeds -- Displaying an external feed in the sidebar -- Displaying an external feed in a page -- Other useful plugins for syndication -- Learning more -- Podcasting -- How to podcast? -- Record yourself -- Make a post -- Dedicated podcasting -- Podcasting plugins -- PodPress -- Podcasting -- iPodCatter -- Learning more -- Using archive.org to host audio files for free -- Summary -- 8. Developing Plugins and Widgets -- Plugins -- Plugin code requirements -- Basic plugin-adding link icons -- Naming and organizing the plugin files -- Writing the plugin's core functions -- Adding hooks to the plugin -- Trying out the plugin -- Adding an admin page -- Adding management page functions -- Modifying the regex() function -- Adding hooks -- Trying out the plugin -- A plugin with DB access -- Getting the plugin to talk to the database -- Adding management page functions -- Adding hooks -- Trying out the plugin -- Learning more -- Widgets -- Top searched words widget -- Naming the widget -- Initializing the widget -- Adding the widget's functions -- Adding the widget hook -- Trying out the widget -- Learning more -- Combining the widget and the plugin -- Summary -- 9. Community Blogging -- Concerns for a multiuser blog.

Users roles and abilities -- Administrator -- Editor -- Author -- Contributor -- Subscriber -- Managing users -- Learning more -- Useful plugins -- Role Manager -- Summary -- 10. WordPress as a CMS -- Designing your theme -- Approach-the flexible WP Post -- Getting ready -- Using a simple version of the theme -- Inputting all content -- Product pages -- Main products page template -- Product category page template -- Single product page template -- Adding custom variables to the products -- Add a custom field to a post -- Displaying a custom field in the template -- The home page -- Setting up the home page -- Inserting the news items -- Inserting the two blurbs -- Using posts-again! -- Creating new category and post content -- Inserting code into the home page template -- Using the Text Snippets plugin -- Installing the plugin and entering content for two snippets -- Inserting code into the home page template -- Customizing the news blog -- News category page -- Single news item page -- Summary -- 11. Administrator's Reference -- System requirements -- The importance of backing up -- Easy, quick, frequent content backups -- Backing up everything -- Verifying your backups -- A closer look at upgrading WordPress -- Backing up your database -- Backing up your WordPress files -- Deactivating all your plugins -- Downloading and extracting WordPress -- Deleting old files -- Uploading the new files -- Running the WordPress upgrade program -- Updating permalinks and .htaccess -- Installing updated plugins and themes -- Migrating or restoring a WordPress site -- Setting file permissions -- What are file permissions? -- How to set permissions -- Troubleshooting -- Troubleshooting during installation -- Headers already sent -- Page comes with only PHP code -- Cannot connect to MySQL database -- Basic troubleshooting -- Cannot see posts.

Making a blog totally private -- I don't receive the emailed passwords -- Tips for theme development -- Template tags -- Class styles generated by WordPress -- Learning more -- Summary -- Index.