WordPress is a free web based software program. Anyone can use it if you sign up with the company to do so. There is no cost to doing so and even though there are some limitations, they are minor. WordPress allows you to build a website or a blog. The original intent of the software developers was to create a way to make it easy to set up a blog. However, this only lasted for a short amount of time as open source contributors helped to make WordPress much more, through extensions of its capabilities and to improve what it can offer to the user.
Some would call WordPress a content management system, or CMS. This term means that it is a way of organizing content for the web. You can use it to run full sized websites, use it to run websites packed with media or just use it as a simple tool that holds a variety of personal data. Because it is so easy to use and it allows you to easily manipulate the website content you have, WordPress has helped to make setting up a blog easy to do. Further, it has become incredibly simple and inexpensive to start an online business or even just to set up a blog to talk with your friends with.
If you are considering a blog and what it can do for your particular needs, WordPress can and should be an active part of that. The key is to learn how to use it. The more you know about it, the better your chances are of creating a functioning resource that offers countless opportunities for the everyday user and the business user. The good news is that you do not have to have a degree in web design to understand and to use WordPress and that may be what makes the biggest difference with this product.
Author(s): Amos Herbert
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Sams Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to build great blogs with WordPress and WordPress.org, and reach any audience by web browser, RSS, or cell phone!
- Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
- Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls
- Notes provide additional information
- Plain English definitions explain new terms
10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…
- Quickly build free blogs with WordPress.com
- Customize your blog to fit your message
- Create powerful text, audio, and video content
- Moderate comments and build communities
- Set up RSS feeds
- Host your own blog with WordPress.org software
- Deliver content via iPhone and BlackBerry
- Streamline publishing with third-party tools
Author(s): Chuck Tomasi, Kreg Steppe
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Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone-from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street-has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog-to create a blog people want to readâ€â€Âtakes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you’ve set it up.
In Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you’ll learn how to:
- Install and get your WordPress site running.
- Set up your site to ensure it can easily grow with you and your readers.
- Be the master of user accounts.
- Manage your site with the WordPress Dashboard and extend its capabilities with plug-ins.
- Make the most of images.
- Work with pages, templates, and links and-of course-publish your posts.
- Use custom post types and taxonomies to bend WordPress to your will.
- Deal with comments-if you even want readers commenting at all.
- Find a theme and make it your own.
Author(s): Scott McNulty
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Taking WordPress to the next level with advanced plugin development
WordPress is used to create self-hosted blogs and sites, and it’s fast becoming the most popular content management system (CMS) on the Web. Now you can extend it for personal, corporate and enterprise use with advanced plugins and this professional development guide. Learn how to create plugins using the WordPress plugin API: utilize hooks, store custom settings, craft translation files, secure your plugins, set custom user roles, integrate widgets, work with JavaScript and AJAX, , create custom post types. You’ll find a practical, solutions-based approach, lots of helpful examples, and plenty of code you can incorporate!
- Shows you how to develop advanced plugins for the most popular CMS platform today, WordPress
- Covers plugin fundamentals, how to create and customize hooks, internationalizing your site with translation files, securing plugins, how to create customer users, and ways to lock down specific areas for use in corporate settings
- Delves into advanced topics, including creating widgets and metaboxes, debugging, using JavaScript and AJAX, Cron integration, custom post types, short codes, multi site functions, and working with the HTTP API
- Includes pointers on how to debug, profile and optimize your code, and how to market your custom plugin
Learn advanced plugin techniques and extend WordPress into the corporate environment.
Author(s): Brad Williams, Ozh Richard, Justin Tadlock
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A convenient how-to guide for maximizing your WordPress experience
WordPress is a state-of-the-art blog publishing platform with nearly ten million active installations. Eight minibooks provide you with expanded coverage of the most important topics to the WordPress community, such as WordPress basics, theme designs, plug-in development, social media integration, SEO, customization, and running multiple sites. Veteran author Lisa Sabin-Wilson leads an authoritative team of authors who offer their unique knowledge and skillset while sharing invaluable advice for maximizing your site’s potential and visitor experience.
- Presents straightforward and easy-to-understand coverage of the basics of WordPress, the most popular blog software in use today
- Delves into the topics that matter most to the WordPress community, such as theme design, plug-in development, and social media integration
- Addresses ways to handle a variety of WordPress security issues
- Examines the WordPress network
The word on the street is that WordPress All-in-One For Dummies presents everything you need to know about WordPress in one convenient book!
Author(s): Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Cory Miller, Kevin Palmer, Andrea Rennick, Michael Torbert
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