WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, Third Edition
- 5h 49m
- George Plumley
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2015
The easy, self-paced guide to the powerful WordPress platform
WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive, unique book-and-video package that focuses on the practical, everyday tasks you will face when creating and maintaining WordPress websites. This easy-to-use, friendly guide will show you how to create and edit pages, integrate your site with social media, keep your site secure, make content more search engine friendly to help drive website traffic, troubleshoot the most common WordPress issues, and much more.
This updated edition of WordPress 24-Hour Trainer covers the latest features of WordPress 4.0 and 4.1 in an easy-to-use format:
- Fully-illustrated guides to key tasks you'll need to perform with WordPress.
- At the end of each lesson a list of related plugins you can install to make WordPress an even more powerful tool.
- Step-by-step guides at the end of lessons to help you practice what you just learned.
WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition is your perfect real-world guide to fully leveraging this powerful platform.
About the Author
George Plumley is a freelance web developer and designer who has specialized in helping small business clients build and update their websites for more than 20 years, the last seven of which have focused exclusively on WordPress. He has trained hundreds of clients and students, and regularly provides workshops and seminars on using and customizing WordPress.
In this Book
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Introduction
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Thinking like WordPress
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Planning Your Site for WordPress
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Installing WordPress
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Admin Area Overview
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Basic Admin Settings
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Adding a New Post—An Overview
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Working with Text in the Content Editor
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Basic Post Screen Functions
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Advanced Post Functions
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Adding a New Page
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The Basics of Adding Media Files
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The Media Uploader Window
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Working with Images in the Content Editor
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Using the WordPress Image Editor
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Working with WordPress Image Galleries
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Adding Video and Audio
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Adding Documents
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Managing Posts and Pages
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Managing Media Files
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Managing Post Categories and Tags
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Managing Widgets and Menus
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Connecting to Social Media
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Managing Comments
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Bringing in Content from other Sites
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Connecting by E-mail
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Managing Multiple Site Users
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Overview of WordPress Themes
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Theme Installation and Basic Customization
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Advanced Design Customization
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Optimizing Your Content
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Optimizing behind the Scenes
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Keeping up to Date
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Keeping Backups
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Keeping Your Site Secure
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Installing and Activating Plugins
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More Plugin Suggestions
