WordPress 24- Hour Trainer ppt

[...]... you can sign up for at WordPress. com While much of WordPress 24 -Hour Trainer applies to the hosted version (how to enter content, how to upload photos and documents, how to layout content, and so on) the important difference is that you have very limited choices to customize blogs on WordPress. com What This Book Covers As of the writing of this book, the most recent version of WordPress is 2.8 and I... WordPress as a CMS How WordPress Assembles Pages Why Separate Is Good How WordPress Manages Content Try It Lesson 2: Planning Your Site for WordPress How Content Will Be Entered How Categories Will Be Organized How the Site Should Look Site Layout Site Design Try It 3 4 4 5 6 6 8 9 9 11 12 13 13 14 Part II: Firing Up WordPress 15 Lesson 3: Installing WordPress 17 Uploading the WordPress Files Setting... WordPress is currently the world’s number one blogging software, this is not a book about blogging In WordPress 24 -Hour Trainer, you learn how to use this open-source software to build and maintain a website, whether it’s a blog, has a blogging section, or has nothing at all to do with blogging I treat WordPress as a content management system — a system you can customize in a number of ways to make it... the real power of WordPress: putting more control in the hands of the website owner Who This Book Is For This book is for beginners at two levels: those who’ve never built a website and those who’ve never built a WordPress website This book also assumes that you’re using what’s sometimes called the self-hosted version of WordPress, which means that you or someone else has installed WordPress on your... make WordPress possible, and the WordPress community, from whom I’ve learned and continue to learn so much; and fi nally I want to thank all my clients over the years who, by asking great questions, have helped me learn to explain things more clearly Contents Introduction xxiii Part I: Before You Start 1 Lesson 1: Thinking Like WordPress 3 Dynamic vs Static Websites Content Management Systems WordPress. .. to know how WordPress thinks about content and what planning you need to do before starting your site Section 10: Extending WordPress — Extending the power and possibilities of WordPress using these addon bits of software Introduction When you’re finished reading the book and watching the DVD, you’ll find lots of support in the p2p forums, as you’ll see in a moment, but there’s also the WordPress community... quality of WordPress and its continued improvement From the people who created and maintain WordPress, to the people who make plugins and themes, to the people who write about WordPress on their blogs or contribute to the official and unofficial forums, there are thousands of bright minds giving back to the community with code, ideas, fixes, and more You never have to feel you’re alone when you’re using WordPress. .. as many common questions specific to P2P and Wrox books To read the FAQs, click the FAQ link on any P2P page xxvi Part I: Before You Start Lesson 1: Thinking Like WordPress Lesson 2: Planning Your Site for WordPress Thinking Like WordPress WordPress provides you with the tools to organize your website content, but those tools function in specific ways, just as one type of word processing software has... it as a world-wide 24 -hour help line Whether you need help or can offer help, you’re welcome any time Instructional Videos On DVD As I mentioned earlier, learning is often enhanced by seeing in real-time what’s being taught, which is why most lessons in the book have a corresponding video tutorial on the accompanying DVD And of course it’s vital that you play along at home — fire up WordPress and try... need when building and maintaining a website with WordPress This means that not every feature of WordPress is covered — I’ll provide links to places on the Web where you can get that kind of detailed reference material The goal here is to show you the key skills you’ll use every day The 37 lessons are grouped into themed sections: ❑ ❑ Section 2: Firing Up WordPress — Instructions for installing the software, . PM10/15/09 12:18:31 PM WordPress 24 -Hour Trainer George Plumley 54586book.indb v54586book.indb v 10/15/09 12:18:31 PM10/15/09 12:18:31 PM WordPress 24 -Hour Trainer Published by Wiley Publishing,. 12:18:31 PM WordPress 24 -Hour Trainer 54586book.indb iii54586book.indb iii 10/15/09 12:18:31 PM10/15/09 12:18:31 PM 54586book.indb iv54586book.indb iv 10/15/09 12:18:31 PM10/15/09 12:18:31 PM WordPress . so that you can modify and extend Joomla! to meet the needs of you and your customers. WordPress 24 -Hour Trainer Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .