
Who Should Read This Book
This eBook is targeted primarily for the business community as consumers of web design, marketing and development solution providers. It is also of value to those same solution providers such that better understanding of these topics and the issues presented and will help them to better serve their customers.
Table of Contents - 24 pages
- Introduction
- Who Should Read This Book
- What is WordPress
- A Bit of History
- Getting Started with WordPress - Where to Get It
- Installation Options
- WordPress.com Service Introduction
- Limitations of the WordPress Service
- WordPress.org Do-It-Yourself Installation
- Pre-Install Information
- Minimum Requirements for WordPress
- Installing WordPress
- Hosting Service Installation Services
- Custom Installation and Package Options
- RightStart WordPress Website Packages
- InstaSite Packages
- Dynamic CMS Packages
- SonicWebTech Custom WordPress Blog or Website Services
- RightStart WordPress Website Packages
- Basic WordPress Components
- Themes
- What is a Theme
- Where do you find themes?
- How do you find good themes?
- Choosing a Theme that works for you
- Plugins
- Plugin Recommendations
- Installing a Plugin
- Plugin Warning!
- Themes
- Backup and Maintenance
- Pitfalls of Maintenance
- Maintenance Budget
- Appendix A
- Technology Resource Sponsors
- About the Authors
- John B. Moore
- Melanie Moore Bermudez
Sample excerpt from ebook
Basic WordPress Components
You have WordPress installed, and that is barely half the battle. Your WordPress site can only do some very basic things at this point. With a new fresh install you have:
- Basic Posting with basic editing and formatting tools<
- Categorizing your posts
- Multiple users can post and login
- Basic RSS Feeds – Share your posts to the world.
- File and image loading and management.
- Drafts – Articles in development.
- Archive and Search tools
- Comments and moderation management
- Notifications – Your WordPress site will keep you informed.
Out of the box that is quite a lot of features, and you can take a lot of time learning each of these features. But before you get into the bread and butter of your site you still need to make it uniquely your website. So we will now focus on three areas that will make your website special.
Those areas are:
- Themes requirements and Custom design issues
- Core Plugins – What you can't live without.
- Site Maintenance