WordPress 3.7 Complete Third Edition -- Table of Contents -- WordPress 3.7 Complete Third Edition -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.packtpub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- 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. Introducing WordPress -- Getting into WordPress -- Using it for a blog or website -- Understanding the common terms -- Post -- Categories and tags -- Comments -- Theme -- Plugin -- Widget -- Menus -- RSS -- Page -- Users -- Choosing WordPress - the reason why -- A long time in refining -- Active in development -- Large community of contributors -- Amazingly extendable -- Getting to know the WordPress family -- Digging into WordPress - the features -- Getting familiar with the new feature list since 3.0 -- Learning more -- Learning more with the online WordPress resources -- Staying updated through WordPress news -- Understanding the Codex -- Getting support from other users -- Using theme and plugin directories -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started -- Building your WordPress website - start here -- Using WordPress.com -- Publishing your first content on a WordPress.com blog -- Installing WordPress manually -- Preparing the environment -- Downloading WordPress -- Upgrading from an earlier version of WordPress -- Uploading the files -- Installing WordPress -- Installing WordPress through a hand-built configuration file -- Learning more -- Installing WordPress through an autoinstaller script -- The WP Admin panel -- Changing general blog information -- Creating your first post -- Writing your first comment -- Retrieving a lost password.

Getting a Gravatar -- Summary -- 3. Creating Blog Content -- WP Admin conventions -- Lists of items -- Posting on your blog -- Adding a simple post -- Common post options -- Categories and tags -- Images in your posts -- Adding an image to a post -- Controlling default image sizes -- Editing an uploaded image -- Designating a featured image -- Using the visual editor versus text editor -- Lead and body -- Drafts, pending articles, timestamps, and managing posts -- Drafts -- Pending articles -- Timestamps -- Managing posts -- Advanced post options -- Excerpt -- Sending pingbacks and trackbacks -- Discussion -- Custom Fields -- Working with post revisions -- Changing the author of the post -- Protecting content -- The pretty post slug -- Custom post format settings -- Additional writing options -- Press This -- Posting via e-mail -- External blogging tools -- Mobile apps for iOS and Android -- 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 an Akismet API key -- Activating Akismet -- Adding and managing categories -- Summary -- 4. Pages, Menus, Media Library, and More -- Pages -- Adding a page -- Parent -- Template -- Order -- Managing pages -- Menus -- Adding a menu -- Displaying a menu -- Header -- Advanced site customization -- Links -- Adding a new link -- Displaying links -- Managing links and categories -- Media library -- Media Manager -- Adding an image gallery -- Choosing a post or page -- Selecting/uploading images -- Importing/exporting your content -- Importing content -- Exporting content -- Summary -- 5. Plugins and Widgets -- Breaking down plugins - what are they? -- Why to use plugins -- Where to get plugins.

Finding new plugins -- Installing a plugin - the how-to -- Manual plugin installation -- Autoinstallation -- The must-have pack of plugins -- Backing up -- Enabling Google Analytics -- Caching -- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) -- Securing your site -- Jetpack -- Switching to maintenance mode -- Widgets -- Summary -- 6. Choosing and Installing Themes -- Finding themes -- WordPress Themes Directory -- Main types of themes -- Finding more themes -- Some not-design-related theme basics -- The structure of a theme -- Factors to consider when choosing a theme -- The purpose of the theme -- Theme licensing -- Up-to-date themes only -- Themes that are customizable -- Themes with responsive structure -- Support, reviews, and documentation -- Installing and changing themes -- Adding a theme within the WP Admin -- Downloading, extracting, and uploading -- Summary -- 7. Developing Your Own Theme -- Setting up your design -- Designing your theme to be WordPress friendly -- Two paths of theme development -- Building a theme from the ground up -- Building a theme with a framework -- 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 functions.php file -- The tag -- The header and footer -- The sidebar -- The main column - the loop -- Creating templates within your theme -- Understanding the WordPress theme -- Breaking it up -- header.php -- footer.php -- The sidebar.php file -- Your four template files -- Archive template -- Single template -- Page template -- Generated classes for body and post -- Other WordPress templates -- Creating and using a custom page template -- Making your theme widget friendly -- Going back to our "static" sidebar -- Working with functions.php -- Adding conditional code to sidebar.

Adding some widgets -- Further widgetizing options -- Enabling a menu in your theme -- Creating a child theme -- Creating the new theme directory -- Creating the stylesheet -- Using your child theme -- Sharing your theme -- Summary -- 8. Feeds, Podcasting, and Offline Blogging -- Feed basics -- Feed readers -- Learning more -- Your built-in WordPress feeds -- Adding feed links -- Feeds for the whole website -- Feeds for comments -- Tracking subscribers with FeedBurner -- Burning your feed on FeedBurner -- FeedBurner plugin -- Podcasting -- Creating a podcast -- Recording yourself -- Making a post -- Dedicated podcasting -- Podcasting plugins -- Using a service to host audio files for free -- Offline blogging tools -- The benefits -- The tools -- Using Windows Live Writer -- Summary -- 9. Developing Plugins and Widgets -- Plugins -- Building plugins from scratch -- 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 ahs_doctypes_regex() function -- Adding hooks -- Trying out the plugin -- Testing your plugins -- Plugin with DB access - capturing searched words -- Getting the plugin to talk to the database -- Adding management page functions -- Trying out the plugin -- Learning more -- Widgets -- Custom tag cloud widget -- Naming our widget -- Widget structure -- Widget initiation function -- Widget form function -- Widget save function -- Widget print function -- Custom widget styles -- Initiating and hooking up the widget -- Trying out the widget -- Learning more -- Bundling a widget with an existing plugin -- Shortcodes -- Shortcodes and the way they work -- Types of shortcodes -- Creating a simple shortcode.

Enabling shortcodes in widgets -- Summary -- 10. Community Blogging -- Concerns for a multiauthor blog -- User roles and abilities -- Super Admin -- Administrator -- Editor -- Author -- Contributor -- Subscriber -- Managing users -- Enabling users to self register -- Learning more -- User management plugins -- Creating a multisite website -- Summary -- 11. Creating a Non-blog Website Part One - The Basics -- The must-do tasks -- Static websites -- The process -- Building your home page -- Creating easy-to-grasp menus -- Corporate or business websites -- Picking a clean theme -- Branding elements -- Good navigation -- Custom home page -- Optional slider -- Meteor Slides -- SlideDeck 2 Lite Responsive Content Slider -- E-commerce stores -- Standard setup -- Getting the plugin -- Custom menu for the store -- Main settings of the plugin -- Custom container page for the store -- Adding products -- Stats - orders, coupons, and reports -- Summary -- 12. Creating a Non-blog Website Part Two - Community Websites and Custom Content Elements -- Membership websites -- Taking the simple approach -- Using membership plugins -- Taking the free approach -- Installing the plugin -- Using the plugin -- Video and photo blogs -- Exploring themes for video and photo sites -- Getting plugins for video and photo sites -- Social networks -- Installing a social network -- Designing your social network -- Extending the functionality -- User accounts and activity -- Introducing custom post types -- Registering a new post type -- Adding labels -- Adding messages -- Creating book template files -- Registering and using a custom taxonomy -- Customizing the admin display -- Summary -- Index.