WordPress: The Missing Manual (3rd Ed.)
Auteur : MacDonald Matthew
Whether you're a budding blogger or seasoned web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites-once you know how to tap into its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 5.0's themes, widgets, and plug-ins to build just about any kind of site.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Setting up WordPress. Configure WordPress on your web host or get it running on your home computer.
- Create your site. Get hands-on instructions for building all types of websites, from blogs to business sites with ecommerce features.
- Mix in multimedia. Add picture galleries, slideshows, video clips, music players, and podcasts.
- Add features. Select from thousands of plug-ins to enhance your site's capabilities, from contact forms to a basic shopping cart.
- Build a truly unique site. Customize a WordPress theme to create a site that looks exactly the way you want.
- Attract an audience. Use SEO, site statistics, and social sharing to reach more people.
- Stay safe. Use backup and staging tools to protect your content and avoid catastrophe.
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Introduction
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About This Book
- What You Need to Use This Book
- WordPress Without a Web Host
- Not Recommended for WordPress.com
- About the Outline
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About the Online Resources
- Errata
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About This Book
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1. The WordPress Landscape
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How WordPress Works
- WordPress Behind the Scenes
- WordPress Themes
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What You Can Build with WordPress
- Blogs
- Sites with Stories and Articles
- Catalogs
- Business Sites
- The Last Word
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How WordPress Works
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2. Installing WordPress on Your Web Host
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Choosing a Web Host
- Evaluating a Web Host
- Premium Performance and Managed Hosting
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Preparing For WordPress
- Using cPanel
- Deciding Where to Put WordPress
- Creating a Subdomain (If You Need One)
- Understanding the Administrator Account
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Installing WordPress
- Installing WordPress with Softaculous
- Managing a Softaculous-Installed Site
- Managing Softaculous Backups
- Installing WordPress with Fantastico
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Keeping WordPress Up-to-Date
- Minor Updates
- Major Updates
- The Last Word
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Choosing a Web Host
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3. Testing WordPress on Your Computer
- The WordPress Stack
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Setting Up a Site with Local
- Installing Local
- Creating a WordPress Site
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Managing Your Local Sites
- Making Multiple Sites and Blueprints
- Using Live Links
- The Last Word
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4. Creating Posts
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Introducing the Admin Area
- The Admin Menu
- The Dashboard
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Administration Practice
- Changing Basic Settings
- Choosing a Starter Theme
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Adding Your First Post
- Creating a New Post
- Browsing Your Posts
- Delaying Publication
- Editing a Post
- Deleting a Post
- Creating a Sticky Post
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Organizing Your Posts
- Understanding Categories
- Categorizing Posts
- Using Subcategories
- Managing Categories
- Understanding Tags
- Tagging Posts
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Working with Several Posts at Once
- Taking Charge of the List of Posts
- Deleting a Group of Posts
- Editing a Group of Posts
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How to Get High-Quality Web Addresses
- Choosing a Permalink Style
- Changing a Post’s Permalink
- Browsing Categories and Tags Using a Web Address
- The Last Word
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Introducing the Admin Area
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5. Choosing and Polishing Your Theme
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How Themes Work
- Understanding t he WordPress Year Themes
- Making Your Theme Suit Your Site
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Choosing a Theme
- Visiting the Theme Gallery
- Installing a New Theme
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Tweaking Your Theme
- The Theme Customizer
- Colors
- Header Pictures and Logos
- Background Images
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Customizing Your Widgets
- Arranging Your Widgets
- Changing Widget Settings
- Adding and Removing Widgets
- The Calendar Widget
- The Categories Widget
- The Tag Cloud Widget
- The Text Widget (and Custom HTML)
- Responsive Themes
- The Last Word
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How Themes Work
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6. Making Fancier Posts
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Simple Text Formatting
- Applying Bold and Italics
- Adding Links
- Formatting Drop C aps, Size, and Background Color
- Understanding Blocks
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Using the Essential Blocks
- Subheadings
- Separators and Spacers
- Lists
- Fancy Quotes
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Working with More Exotic Blocks
- Tables
- Buttons
- Social Icons
- Code Listings
- Showing Part of a Post with a Teaser
- Dividing a Post into Multiple Pages
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Managing Your Blocks
- Jumping f rom Block to Block
- Moving Blocks
- See ing the HTML for a Block
- Hiding Blocks You Don’t Need
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Creating Personalized Blocks
- Making a Reusable Block
- Editing a Reusable Block
- Using Even More Advanced Reusable Blocks
- The Last Word
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Simple Text Formatting
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7. Adding Pictures, Videos, and More
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Adding a Basic Picture
- Pairing Pictures with Content
- Adding an Inline Image
- Making a Gallery of Pictures
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Working with t he Media Library
- Deleting Pictures from the Media Library
- Editing a Picture in the Media Library
- Adding Pictures to the Media Library
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Adding Featured Images
- Assigning a Featured Image to a Post
- Themes That Make the Most of Pictures
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Embedding a Video
- Showing a YouTube Video
- Showing Videos from Other Video Services
- Premium Video Hosting
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Playing Audio Files
- Adding a Basic Audio Player
- Using a Music-Sharing Service
- Podcasting
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Embedding Other Types of Content
- Adding a Download Link
- The Last Word
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Adding a Basic Picture
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8. Creating Pages and Menus
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Understanding Page Basics
- Creating a Page
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Understanding Page Basics
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9. Getting New Features with Plugins
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How Plugins Work
- Real Talk About Plugin Security
- Plugin Management
- Activating (and Deactivating) a Plugin
- Finding New Plugins
- Installing a New Plugin
- Keeping Your Plugins Up - to - Date
- Removing Old Plugins
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The Jetpack Plugin
- Signing Up with WordPress.com
- Turning On Downtime Monitoring
- Turning On Automatic Plugin Updates
- Using Jetpack Blocks
- Creating Slideshows
- Adding Animated GIFs
- Building Forms
- Setting Content for Repeat Visitors
- Using Jetpack Widgets
- The Last Word
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How Plugins Work
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10. Comments: Letting Your Readers Talk Back
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Allowing or Forbidding Comments
- Changing Comment Settings for a Post
- Changing the Default Comment Settings Site-Wide
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The Life Cycle of a Comment
- Leaving a Comment
- Moderating Comments Through Email
- Moderating Comments in the Admin Area
- Sanitizing Comments
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The Ongoing Conversation
- Threaded Comments
- Paged Comments
- Advertising a Post’s Comments
- Linkbacks
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Making Comments More Personal with Gravatars
- The Gravatar Service
- Signing Up with Gravatar
- Changing the “Mystery Man” Gravatar
- Gravatar Hovercards
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Using Facebook and Twitter Comments
- Social Logins with Jetpack
- Requiring Social Logins
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Stamping Out Comment Spam
- Understanding Spam
- Spam-Fighting Strategies
- Understanding Akismet
- Setting Up Akismet (with Jetpack)
- Setting Up Akismet (from Scratch)
- Using Akismet
- The Last Word
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Allowing or Forbidding Comments
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11. Collaborating with Multiple Authors
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Adding People to Your Site
- Adding New People to a Site
- How Users Log In
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Working with Authors
- The Post Approval Process for Contributors
- Post Locking
- Revision Tracking
- Browsing an Author’s Posts
- Adding Author Information
- Removing Authors (and Other Users)
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Building a Private Community
- Hiding and Locking Posts
- Private Sites
- Letting People Register Themselves
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Creating a Network of Sites
- Creating a New Multisite Network from Scratch
- Converting an Existing Site to a Multisite Network
- Your Multisite Network: A First Look
- Adding a Site to Your Network
- Understanding How Users Work in a Multisite Network
- Rolling Out Updates
- Adding Themes and Plugins
- The Last Word
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Adding People to Your Site
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12. Attracting a Crowd
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Encouraging Your Readers to Share
- A Word About Jetpack
- How Sharing Buttons Work
- Adding Sharing Buttons to All Your Posts
- Adding More Sharing Buttons
- Changing Where Sharing Buttons Appear
- Letting People Like Your Site
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Keeping Readers in the Loop
- Signing Up Subscribers
- Emailing Subscribers
- Publicizing Your Posts on Social Media
- Sharing Your Tweets on Your Site
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Search Engine Optimization
- PageRank: Scoring Your Site
- Finding Your Page R ank
- Making Your Site Google-Friendly
- Boosting SEO with a Plugin
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WordPress Site Statistics
- Strategy 1. Find Out What Your Readers Like
- Strategy 2. Who’s Giving You the Love?
- Strategy 3. Play Well with Search Engines
- Strategy 4. Meet Your Top Commenters
- The Last Word
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Encouraging Your Readers to Share
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13. Editing Themes to Customize Your Site
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The Goal: More Flexible Blogs and Sites
- Taking Control of Your Theme
- How WordPress Stores Themes
- Style.css: How a Theme Identifies Itself
- The Theme Editor
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Protecting Yourself with a Child Theme
- The Anatomy of a Child Theme
- Creating a Child Theme with a Plugin
- Changing Your Child Theme
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Decoding the Style Rules in Your Theme
- Decoding a Basic Style Rule
- Multiple Rules and Media Queries
- Class and ID Selectors
- Combining Selectors
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Changing the Twenty Twenty Styles
- Puzzling Out the Styles in a Theme
- Using Fancy Fonts
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Editing the Code in Your Theme
- Introducing the Template Files
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Changing a Twenty Twenty Template
- Step 1. Find the Template File
- Step 2. Create a Copy of the Template File
- Step 3. Examine the Template File
- The Last Word
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The Goal: More Flexible Blogs and Sites
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14. More Tools for Professional Sites
- Understanding a WordPress Backup
- Using the UpdraftPlus Plugin
- Creating an Instant Backup
- Scheduling Regular Backups
- Restoring a Site
- Better Performance with Caching
- The WP Super Cache Plugin
- Faster Images with a Content Delivery Network
- Adding Ecommerce to Your Site
- A Quick Overview of PayPal
- Asking for a Donation
- Introducing WooCommerce
- Installing WooCommerce
- Adding Products
- Showing Products
- Using the Shopping Cart
- A Final Grab Bag of Useful Plugins
- Search for Bad Links with Broken Link Checker
- Fight Database Junk with WP-Optimize
- Change How Your Site Looks on Mobile with WPtouch
- Tighten Security with Limit Login Attempts
- The Last Word
Date de parution : 11-2020
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