WordPress for Web Developers [electronic resource] : An Introduction for Web Professionals /
Leary, Stephanie.author.
WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most of WordPress. You'll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.   Then you'll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins. WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of WordPress’s built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You'll learn to:  .
""Contents at a Glance""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Technical Reviewer""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Getting Started""; ""Why WordPress ?""; ""wordpress.com vs. wordpress.org""; ""Everything You Need""; ""Easy to Use""; ""Easy to Extend""; ""The Business Benefits of WordPress""; ""Sites Built with WordPress""; ""Web Experts and Open Source Projects""; ""Government Web Sites""; ""Personal Sites""; ""Blog Networks""; ""Social Networks""; ""Colleges and Universities""; ""Small Businesses""; ""WordPress Tour""; ""Anatomy of a Page""; ""Summary""
""Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading WordPress""""System Requirements""; ""Installation Using the Web Interface""; ""Initial Settings""; ""Troubleshooting the Blank White Page""; ""Installing Themes""; ""Installing Plugins""; ""Upgrading WordPress, Themes, and Plugins""; ""Bulk Upgrades""; ""Troubleshooting Automatic Upgrades: FTP Credentials""; ""Troubleshooting Automatic Upgrades on IIS""; ""Manual Upgrades""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Dashboard and Settings""; ""The Dashboard""; ""QuickPress""; ""Incoming Links""; ""WordPress News Blog""; ""Dashboard Widget Plugins""
""The Administration Menu and the Admin Bar""""Settings""; ""General Settings""; ""Writing Settings""; ""Posting by E-mail""; ""Update Services""; ""Reading""; ""Discussion""; ""Comments vs. Trackbacks""; ""Default Article Settings""; ""Other Comment Settings""; ""Comment E-mail Notifications""; ""Comment Moderation""; ""Avatars""; ""Media""; ""Uploading Files""; ""Permalinks""; ""Short Links""; ""Category Base""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Working with Content""; ""Posts""; ""Post Formats""; ""The Visual Editor""; ""Dealing with Content from Microsoft Office""; ""Shortcodes""; ""Permalinks""
""Publish Settings""""Publication Date and Scheduling Posts""; ""Categories""; ""Tags""; ""Featured Images""; ""Excerpts""; ""Comments and Trackbacks""; ""Revisions""; ""Custom Fields""; ""Pages""; ""Page Attributes: Parents, Templates, and Order""; ""Posts vs. Pages: Same, but Different""; ""Posts Are Pages;  Pages Are Posts""; ""Editing Posts and Pages""; ""Autosave""; ""Screen Options""; ""Quick Edit""; ""Bulk Edit""; ""Media Files""; ""Uploading a File from Your Computer""; ""Inserting an Image from a URL""; ""Editing Images""; ""Galleries""; ""Audio""; ""Podcasting""; ""Video""
""oEmbed""""Other File Types""; ""File Sizes and Upload Permissions""; ""The Media Library""; ""Feeds""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: Working with Themes""; ""Using the Customizer""; ""Using Widgets""; ""Using Menus""; ""Editing Menu Items""; ""Using Header and Background Images""; ""Making Other Changes to Themes""; ""Adding CSS Without Editing the Stylesheet Using Jetpack""; ""Adding CSS with a Child Theme""; ""Starter Themes and Theme Frameworks""; ""Starter Themes""; ""Theme Frameworks""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Working with Plugins""; ""How Plugins Work""
""Where Plugins Store Their Data""
Includes index.
WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most of WordPress. You'll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.   Then you'll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins. WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of WordPress’s built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You'll learn to:  .
Computer programming.
Software engineering.
Web Development.
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.