Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through quick, 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to know to take advantage of the WordPress encyclopedia[md]and all of WordPress’s incredible resources. Coverage includes quickly building blogs for free using WordPress.com; managing blogs from the Dashboard; customizing blogs to fit your message; creating more powerful text and media content; attracting visitors via search engine optimization; moderating comments and building communities; setting up RSS feeds; hosting your own blog with WordPress.org software; earning ad revenue; using analytics to measure blog performance; integrating with Twitter and social networking sites; delivering content via iPhone and BlackBerry; streamlining publishing with third-party tools, and much more. Most of this book’s instruction is presented in easy-to-follow numbered steps, and it’s packed with examples and screenshots to show you what things look like along the way. Tips offer insider advice and shortcuts, and Cautions help you avoid problems. Making the most of WordPress has never been this easy!

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes

Product Description

Build powerful, interactive plug-ins for your blog and to share online

• Everything you need to create and distribute your own plug-ins following WordPress coding standards
• Walk through the development of six complete, feature-rich, real-world plug-ins that are being used by thousands of WP users
• Written by Vladimir Prelovac, WordPress expert and developer of WordPress plug-ins such as Smart YouTube and Plugin Central
• Part of Packt’s Beginners Guide series: expect step-by-step instructions with an emphasis on experimentation and tweaking code

In Detail

If you can write WordPress plug-ins, you can make WordPress do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Widgets, plug-ins that alter your post output, present custom “views” of your blog, and more.

WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the WordPress API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning WordPress into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of WordPress development.

Each new chapter and each new plug-in introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. This book is written as a guide to take your WordPress skills from the very beginning to the level where you are able to completely understand how WordPress works and how you can use it to your advantage.

What you will learn from this book?

• Get to know the WordPress code base, WordPress’s plug-in architecture, and the plug-in application programming interface (API) and learn how to hack it
• Master the WordPress database and the API – access and manipulate data, handle user roles and permissions, posts, and so on
• Hook into the rest of WordPress using actions and filters
• Change the way your WordPress backend looks by customizing menus, submenus, and the plug-in admin panel
• Integrate AJAX and jQuery into your plug-ins to dynamically generate content
• Hook directly to WordPress edit pages and use AJAX to generate fast searches
• Integrate your plug-in with WordPress panels and the tinyMCE editor
• Access and work with third-party APIs like Flickr
• Implement localization support for users of other languages
• Maintain and manage your plug-in using SVN and publish it to the WordPress Plugin Repository
• Handle security issues and make your plug-ins safer to use

We cover the development of six plug-ins from start to finish:

• Digg-this: Adds a Digg This button to each post.
• Live Blogroll: Adds a recent posts popup for each blog in your blogroll.
• The Wall widget: Displays comments on the sidebar without reloading the page.
• Snazzy Archives: Presents your site archives in a unique visual way.
• Insights: Access your articles and Flickr images from within the WordPress edit page.
• Post Types: Provides pre-defined post templates to quickly add a photo or a link to your blog.

Approach

This is a Packt Beginners Guide, which means it focuses on practical examples and has a fast-paced but friendly approach, with the opportunity to learn by experiment and play. Each chapter builds a practical plug-in from the ground up using step-by-step instructions. Individual sections show you how to code some functionality into your plug-in and follow up with a discussion of concepts.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for programmers working with WordPress, who want to develop custom plug-ins and to hack the code base. You need to be familiar with the basics of WordPress and PHP programming and believe that code is poetry; this book will handle the rest.

WordPress Plugin Development

• ISBN13: 9780470554586
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
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

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

• Concise presentation of the most important concepts and features of photoblogging with WordPress.
• Clear, easy-to-understand information in two- and four-page spreads
• Full color images clearly illustrate the lessons
• Provides information available in no other book.

Product Description
Photoblogs have become a very important tool for advanced photographers and professionals who want to market their work, as well as a popular forum for casual photographers to share personal photos.”David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress: An Instant Start-Up Manual for Creating and Promoting Your Own Photoblog” is a complete start to-finish guide on how to create a photoblog using WordPress, the most popular blogging software among photographers that allows you to create a blog site for free, hosted on WordPress.com.This guide explains the purpose and function of all the features and capabilities of each WordPress tool, how to use them and why. Laid out in clear, well-illustrated two- and four-page spreads, each step-by-step explanation includes images that show the results after using each feature. All the basics of creating a WordPress account, setting up your photoblog, uploading your first photos and sharing them, are presented in an easy to browse format.Perfect for professional photographers, avid amateur shutterbugs and even non-photography bloggers who want to include photos on their blog sites, “David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress” will help you get up and blogging quickly and easily.

David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging wwith Wordpress: An Instant Start-up Manual for Creating & Promoting Your Photoblog, Softcover Book, 205 Pages

Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through quick, 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to know to take advantage of the WordPress encyclopedia[md]and all of WordPress’s incredible resources. Coverage includes quickly building blogs for free using WordPress.com; managing blogs from the Dashboard; customizing blogs to fit your message; creating more powerful text and media content; attracting visitors via search engine optimization; moderating comments and building communities; setting up RSS feeds; hosting your own blog with WordPress.org software; earning ad revenue; using analytics to measure blog performance; integrating with Twitter and social networking sites; delivering content via iPhone and BlackBerry; streamlining publishing with third-party tools, and much more. Most of this book’s instruction is presented in easy-to-follow numbered steps, and it’s packed with examples and screenshots to show you what things look like along the way. Tips offer insider advice and shortcuts, and Cautions help you avoid problems. Making the most of WordPress has never been this easy!

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes

Product Description

Build powerful, interactive plug-ins for your blog and to share online

• Everything you need to create and distribute your own plug-ins following WordPress coding standards
• Walk through the development of six complete, feature-rich, real-world plug-ins that are being used by thousands of WP users
• Written by Vladimir Prelovac, WordPress expert and developer of WordPress plug-ins such as Smart YouTube and Plugin Central
• Part of Packt’s Beginners Guide series: expect step-by-step instructions with an emphasis on experimentation and tweaking code

In Detail

If you can write WordPress plug-ins, you can make WordPress do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Widgets, plug-ins that alter your post output, present custom “views” of your blog, and more.

WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the WordPress API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning WordPress into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of WordPress development.

Each new chapter and each new plug-in introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. This book is written as a guide to take your WordPress skills from the very beginning to the level where you are able to completely understand how WordPress works and how you can use it to your advantage.

What you will learn from this book?

• Get to know the WordPress code base, WordPress’s plug-in architecture, and the plug-in application programming interface (API) and learn how to hack it
• Master the WordPress database and the API – access and manipulate data, handle user roles and permissions, posts, and so on
• Hook into the rest of WordPress using actions and filters
• Change the way your WordPress backend looks by customizing menus, submenus, and the plug-in admin panel
• Integrate AJAX and jQuery into your plug-ins to dynamically generate content
• Hook directly to WordPress edit pages and use AJAX to generate fast searches
• Integrate your plug-in with WordPress panels and the tinyMCE editor
• Access and work with third-party APIs like Flickr
• Implement localization support for users of other languages
• Maintain and manage your plug-in using SVN and publish it to the WordPress Plugin Repository
• Handle security issues and make your plug-ins safer to use

We cover the development of six plug-ins from start to finish:

• Digg-this: Adds a Digg This button to each post.
• Live Blogroll: Adds a recent posts popup for each blog in your blogroll.
• The Wall widget: Displays comments on the sidebar without reloading the page.
• Snazzy Archives: Presents your site archives in a unique visual way.
• Insights: Access your articles and Flickr images from within the WordPress edit page.
• Post Types: Provides pre-defined post templates to quickly add a photo or a link to your blog.

Approach

This is a Packt Beginners Guide, which means it focuses on practical examples and has a fast-paced but friendly approach, with the opportunity to learn by experiment and play. Each chapter builds a practical plug-in from the ground up using step-by-step instructions. Individual sections show you how to code some functionality into your plug-in and follow up with a discussion of concepts.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for programmers working with WordPress, who want to develop custom plug-ins and to hack the code base. You need to be familiar with the basics of WordPress and PHP programming and believe that code is poetry; this book will handle the rest.

WordPress Plugin Development

• ISBN13: 9780470554586
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
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

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

• Concise presentation of the most important concepts and features of photoblogging with WordPress.
• Clear, easy-to-understand information in two- and four-page spreads
• Full color images clearly illustrate the lessons
• Provides information available in no other book.

Product Description
Photoblogs have become a very important tool for advanced photographers and professionals who want to market their work, as well as a popular forum for casual photographers to share personal photos.”David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress: An Instant Start-Up Manual for Creating and Promoting Your Own Photoblog” is a complete start to-finish guide on how to create a photoblog using WordPress, the most popular blogging software among photographers that allows you to create a blog site for free, hosted on WordPress.com.This guide explains the purpose and function of all the features and capabilities of each WordPress tool, how to use them and why. Laid out in clear, well-illustrated two- and four-page spreads, each step-by-step explanation includes images that show the results after using each feature. All the basics of creating a WordPress account, setting up your photoblog, uploading your first photos and sharing them, are presented in an easy to browse format.Perfect for professional photographers, avid amateur shutterbugs and even non-photography bloggers who want to include photos on their blog sites, “David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress” will help you get up and blogging quickly and easily.

David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging wwith Wordpress: An Instant Start-up Manual for Creating & Promoting Your Photoblog, Softcover Book, 205 Pages

Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through quick, 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to know to take advantage of the WordPress encyclopedia[md]and all of WordPress’s incredible resources. Coverage includes quickly building blogs for free using WordPress.com; managing blogs from the Dashboard; customizing blogs to fit your message; creating more powerful text and media content; attracting visitors via search engine optimization; moderating comments and building communities; setting up RSS feeds; hosting your own blog with WordPress.org software; earning ad revenue; using analytics to measure blog performance; integrating with Twitter and social networking sites; delivering content via iPhone and BlackBerry; streamlining publishing with third-party tools, and much more. Most of this book’s instruction is presented in easy-to-follow numbered steps, and it’s packed with examples and screenshots to show you what things look like along the way. Tips offer insider advice and shortcuts, and Cautions help you avoid problems. Making the most of WordPress has never been this easy!

Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes