professional wordpress 2nd edition

[...]... COMMUNITY Contributing to WordPress Understanding Trac Working on the Core Submitting Plugins and Themes Documentation Sister Projects BuddyPress bbPress Future Projects Resources Codex Support Forums WordPress Chat Mailing Lists External Resources WordCamp and Meetups WordPress. TV Theme/Plugin Directories WordPress Ideas WordPress Development Updates Make WordPress. org WordPress Podcasts WordPress News Sites... WP Late Night podcast, and the coauthor of Professional WordPress and Professional WordPress Plugin Development Brad has been developing websites for over 15 years, including the last 5 where he has focused on open-source technologies like WordPress Brad has given presentations at various WordCamps across the country and is a co-organizer of the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Philly You can... how popular is WordPress? Current State Interest in WordPress and WordPress usage is booming You’re holding in your hands a testament to that Just 3 years ago, very few WordPress books were available Now this second edition has been published “Popular” is always a subjective metric, but statistics add some weight to those perceptions According to Automattic, as of 2011, over 100,000 new WordPresses are... (http://en .wordpress. com/stats/) That includes sites using WordPress for content management, blogging, and personal rants, and has to be discounted by those of you who have multiple WordPress installations to their names, but even with that order of magnitude estimate, WordPress is immensely popular Automattic cites nearly 74 million WordPress websites globally with about half of them hosted at WordPress. com... community using it In short, the ecosystem surrounding WordPress is alive and thriving In August 2011, Matt Mullenweg presented the current state of WordPress use as well as results from the fi rst-ever WordPress survey at the San Francisco WordCamp The WordPress survey is similar to a census of the WordPress community at large and how people use WordPress every day This includes independent web developers,... 12/6/12 1:11 AM Popularity of WordPress ❘ 3 POPULARITY OF WORDPRESS This book is based on the WordPress 3.5 major release Each successive release of WordPress has included improvements in the administration and control functions (Dashboard); backup, export, and import functions; and installation and upgrade features Even if you start with a slightly down-rev version of WordPress, you’ll be able to bring... by WordPress. com Cache Management 324 324 326 327 329 330 331 331 332 334 334 335 335 336 337 337 338 340 342 343 WordPress System Complexity Web Server Caching and Optimization WordPress Object Caching Transient Caches MySQL Query Cache 344 345 347 347 348 Load Balancing Your WordPress Site Dealing with Spam 349 350 Comment Moderation and CAPTCHAs Automating Spam Detection 350 351 Securing Your WordPress. .. web services interfaces, WordPress APIs, feeds into and out of WordPress, and making WordPress entries show up in Facebook pages xxiii flast.indd xxiii 04/12/12 9:18 AM INTRODUCTION Chapter 12, “Crafting the User Experience,” looks at a WordPress installation from the perspective of a regular or potential reader Usability, testing, and the ease of fi nding information within a WordPress website form... (http://en .wordpress. com/stats/) In the previous edition of this book, that number was at only 5 million sites In 2008, the official WordPress plugin repository hosted over 6,300 plugins, double the number from 2007 At the time of this writing, the number of plugins now tops 19,000 (http:/ /wordpress. org/news/2012/05/ plugins-refreshed/) There are over 1,500 unique themes in the official WordPress theme... distinct from WordPress but is commonly integrated with it Chapter 16, WordPress Developer Community,” covers some of the WordPress adjunct systems in more detail, but they’re included here to provide a sense of how WordPress has expanded beyond a basic single-user–oriented tool At the same time, the authors are not endorsing or making a commercial for Automattic, but delving into the guts of WordPress . PM04/12/12 5:12 PM PROFESSIONAL WordPress ® ffirs.indd iiiffirs.indd iii 04/12/12 5:12 PM04/12/12 5:12 PM ffirs.indd ivffirs.indd iv 04/12/12 5:12 PM04/12/12 5:12 PM PROFESSIONAL WordPress ® DESIGN. DEVELOPMENT Second Edition Brad Williams David Damstra Hal Stern John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.indd vffirs.indd v 04/12/12 5:12 PM04/12/12 5:12 PM Professional WordPress : Design and Development, Second Edition Published. WebDevStudios.com, a cohost on the WP Late Night podcast, and the coauthor of Professional WordPress and Professional WordPress Plugin Development. Brad has been developing websites for over 15