Beginning WordPress 3 (Expert's Voice in Web Development) - Softcover

Leary, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1430228954 ISBN 13: 9781430228950

Publisher: Apress, 2010

Synopsis

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, Wordpress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily and better yet, it's free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins. Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You'll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more. What you'll learn How to get started with Wordpress, create new content, and import existing content How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting How to create themes, widgets, and plugins How to publish, move, maintain, and secure your WordPress sites Who this book is for This book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems. Table of Contents About WordPress Installing and Upgrading Dashboard and Settings Working with Content Importing Content Creating a Basic Theme Creating an Advanced Theme Creating Widgets Creating Plugins Users and Roles Performance and Security Custom Content Types, Taxonomies, and Fields Setting up the Network

About this title

About the Author

Stephanie Leary is a web developer for Texas A&M University and the co-owner of Paged Media, a freelance business catering to authors and other publishing professionals. She began developing themes and plugins for WordPress in 2005, and has taught numerous workshops on using WordPress as a content management system.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1430228954
• ISBN 13: 9781430228950
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452