Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com WordPress Top Plugins Find and install the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities, and generating revenue Brandon Corbin BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com WordPress Top Plugins Copyright © 2010 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: September 2010 Production Reference: 1150910 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK. ISBN 978-1-849511-40-7 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by John Quick (john.m.quick@gmail.com) Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Credits Author Brandon Corbin Reviewer M. Liz Allyn Acquisition Editor Usha Iyer Development Editor Mayuri Kokate Technical Editors Rupal Pravin Joshi Manasi Poonthottam Copy Editor Leonard D’Silva Indexer Hemangini Bari Editorial Team Leader Aanchal Kumar Project Team Leader Priya Mukherjee Project Coordinator Vincila Colaco Proofreader Aaron Nash Production Coordinator Shantanu Zagade Cover Work Shantanu Zagade Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com About the Author Brandon Corbin is an accomplished web enthusiast with a background in advertising, and has used his knowledge of design and marketing to create websites for many of the Fortune 500. For more than a decade, he has applied his passions to several industries—including radio, real estate, pharmaceuticals, recruiting, and e-Commerce—with an obsessive attention to creating a smooth user experience. I would like to thank my wonderful wife Emily and my awesome children—Maddy and Ethan, all of whom put up with my absence during the writing of this book. You guys mean the world to me. Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com About the Reviewer M. Liz Allyn has been interested in computers since her high school days, and minored in Computer Science and Math while nishing her BS in Chemistry. After earning a Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry, she worked as a development scientist, group leader, and senior quality assurance ofcer. These real jobs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries taught her that she hated cubicles. To Liz, the fun part was teaching the technicians and working in the laboratories with the instrumentation. Her most interesting lab project was programming a robot in a pharmaceutical lab to prepare samples for chemical analysis. Sample preparation time was reduced by 75 percent, which allowed the technicians to attend to other tasks. In between teaching assignments Liz taught herself html, became a certied webmaster, and learned to use PHP and MySQL in developing websites. She has been blogging with WordPress for four years now. Among a few websites that she keeps active Liz likes to share tips about WordPress and the underlying HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL with her readers at computeraxe.com. When she’s not helping clients deal with their website or database issues, Liz enjoys writing about plants and sharing pictures of nature at her WordPress blog, wildeherb.com. Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Plugin Basics 5 Safety first 6 Automatic install versus manual install 6 Automatic plugin installation 6 Plugin detail 8 Downloading, unpacking, installing 9 Activating the plugin 9 Connection Information required 10 Manual installation 10 Manually installing a plugin with a Mac 11 Transferring a plugin 12 Manually installing a plugin on Windows 13 Creating a bookmark with WinSCP 16 Transferring a plugin to your blog 16 Activating your plugin 17 Finding a plugin's settings 17 How plugins work 17 Managing plugins 18 Keeping your plugins up-to-date 19 Learn by tinkering 19 WordPress plugin API 19 PHP references 19 CSS 19 JavaScript 20 Troubleshooting plugins 20 Editing plugins 21 Summary 22 Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Table of Contents [ ii ] Chapter 2: Generating Content 23 GD Star Rating 23 Fixing the default ratings 24 Turning off Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down on posts 24 Turning off Star Ratings on comments 24 Better Tag Cloud 25 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) 26 My Page Order 27 Get Recent Comments 27 Viper's Video Quicktags 28 WP Greet Box 29 NextGen Gallery 30 Setting up your first gallery 31 Adding your gallery to a post or a page 32 Zemanta 32 CForms II 34 CForms administration 35 Modifying the default form 36 Adding your form to a page, post, or widget 36 Advanced CForms customizations 37 File upload settings 37 Messages, text, and button label 37 Core Form Admin / e-mail options 37 Admin e-mail message options 37 Auto confirmation 37 Multi-part / multi-page forms 37 Tell-A-Friend form support 38 WP comment feature 38 Third-party read-notification support 38 MapPress—Google maps 38 Adding a map to a post or page 39 WP-O-Matic 40 Creating your first campaign 40 Adding feeds 41 Categories 42 Understanding WP-O-Matic's options 42 Search unleashed 43 Setting up your search index 44 Creating your first index 45 WP Web Scrapper 46 Copyright warning 47 Adding a scrapping 47 Summary 48 Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Table of Contents [ iii ] Chapter 3: Sharing Content 49 TweetMeme 49 Setting up TweetMeme 50 Wordbook 51 WP Download Manager 52 Adding a new download 53 Inserting a download into a post 54 Twiogle Twitter Commenter 54 ShareThis 55 Setting up ShareThis 56 Wibiya Bar - Beta 57 Installing the Wibiya bar 58 WP Facebook Connect 59 Creating an app ID for your blog 59 Adding the connect button to your comments 60 Twitter Friendly Links 61 Feedburner Feedsmith 62 Burning your feed 63 Create a Google account 63 Verify your blog's feed URL 63 Burn your feed 63 Name your feed 64 Configuring WP-Feedburner 64 SendIt 65 SendIt overview 66 Creating your first newsletter 67 Adding subscribers 67 Automatic import 67 SendIt Widget 68 Sending a mail 69 Subscribe-Remind 69 Sociable 70 Understanding social options 71 Disabling sprite usage for images 71 Disabling alpha mask on the share toolbar 71 Tagline 71 Position 71 Use Text Links 72 Image Directory 72 Use Thisbox/iFrame on links 72 Open in New Window 72 Awe.sm 72 Summary 73 Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com [...]... of different spots throughout the WordPress administrator's navigation, I will make sure to tell you specifically where this page is for each of the plugins covered in this book For those plugins you install without the guidance of this book, here are a few spots to look • Top Navigation | Settings • Top Navigation | Plugins • Top Navigation | Tools How plugins work WordPress has designated areas that... You can learn more about Actions, Filters, and WordPress Plugins in general at: • Plugin API: http://codex .Wordpress. org/Plugin_API • Writing a Plugin: http://codex .Wordpress. org/Writing_a_Plugin • Actions: http://codex .Wordpress. org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference • Plugin Coding Standards: http://codex .Wordpress. org /WordPress_ Coding_Standards Managing plugins WordPress provides a wonderful built-in plugin... Preface WordPress has thousands of plugins available—most of them don't work as advertised, are out dated, or simply don't work Wordpress Top Plugins takes you through the process of finding the very best plugins to build a powerful and engaging website or blog With access to over 10,000 plugins, finding the ones that actually work as advertised is becoming exceedingly difficult and time consuming Wordpress. .. best plugins for websites with multiple writers Chapter 8, Security and Maintenance covers plugins that help maintain a healthy and secure WordPress blog Chapter 9, Power Admin covers the plugins that will turn you in to a WordPress administrating juggernaut Chapter 10, Time for Action covers some of the best external resources for continuing your WordPress education What you need for this book WordPress. .. install WordPress updates, plugin updates, and new plugins is one of the reasons WordPress is great; the process is hard enough without letting things become outdated Automatic plugin installation Out of the box, WordPress comes with its own plugin app store, which allows you to search through a huge library of free plugins To access WordPress' s built-in plugin browser, click Add New under the Plugins. .. model WordPress for prototyping Real business models with WordPress Selling digital goods Selling themes Selling plugins Selling advertising spots Job board Corporate blogging software Hosting WordPress Continuing education Summary [ viii ] Download from Wow! eBook 215 216 216 216 217 218 219 220 220 221 222 223 Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com... WordPress education What you need for this book WordPress 2.8 or higher Who this book is for Regardless if this is your first-time working with WordPress, or you're a seasoned WordPress coding ninja WordPress Top Plugins will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and reader base, and generating real advertising revenue Conventions In... Thanks to WordPress' s open architecture, developers can inject their plugin's code throughout your blog without you having to touch a single line of code, unless, of course, you want to In this chapter, we cover the following: • Installing plugins • How plugins work • Troubleshooting plugins Download from Wow! eBook Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com... on the plugin's homepage in the plugin directory at http:/ /Wordpress. org/extend /plugins • Google didn't give me the answer I was looking for—Search WordPress' s plugin directory for a different plugin [ 20 ] Download from Wow! eBook Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Chapter 1 Editing plugins If you are a power user or someone who likes to get... search by keyword or name, browse by popular tags, or see the newest plugins added [] Download from Wow! eBook Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - http://www.simpopdf.com Chapter 1 After you search or browse by a tag, you will be presented with a list of plugins that are available for you to install from WordPress' s Plugin Directory Each will list its version number (the . 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