Professional WordPress : Design and Development

by Stern, Hal; Damstra, David; Williams, Brad

• ISBN13: 9780470560549
• ISBN10: 0470560541
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-05
• Publisher: Wrox

Summary

An in-depth look at the internals of the WordPress system.As the most popular blogging and content management platform available today, WordPress is a powerful tool. This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional aspects of WordPress as well as plug-in and theme development.What is covered in this book? WordPress as a Content Management System Hosting Options Installing WordPress Files Database Configuration Dashboard Widgets Customizing the Dashboard Creating and Managing Content Categorizing Your Content Working with Media Comments and Discussion Working with Users Managing, Adding, Upgrading, and Using the Theme Editor Working with Widgets Adding and Managing New Plugins Configuring WordPress Exploring the Code Configuring Key Files wp-config.php file Advanced wp-config Options What's in the Core? WordPress Codex and Resources Understanding and customizing the Loop Building A Custom Query Complex Database Operations Dealing With Errors Direct Database Manipulation Building Your Own Taxonomies Plugin Packaging Create a Dashboard Widget Creating a Plugin Example Publish to the Plugin Directory Installing a Theme Creating Your Own Theme How and When to Use Custom Page Templates How to Use Custom Page Templates Pushing Content from WordPress to Other Sites Usability and Usability Testing Getting Your Site Found How Web Standards Get Your Data Discovered Load Balancing Your WordPress Site Securing Your WordPress Site Using WordPress in the Enterprise Is WordPress Right for Your Enterprise? and much more!

Author Biography

Hal Stern is a vice president at a technology company and uses WordPress to blog about his adventures in golf, ice hockey, and food.

David Damstra is the Manager of Web Services for CU*Answers, a credit union service organization, where he manages a team of developers to create web sites and web applications for the financial industry.

Brad Williams is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com. He is also a co-host on the SitePoint Podcast and an advisor on SitePoint Forums.

Table of Contents

Introduction

First Post

What Is WordPress?

Content and Conversation

Getting Started

Finishing Up

Functional Overview

The Dashboard

Creating and Managing Content

Categorizing Your Content

Working with Media

Comments and Discussion

Working with Users

Extending WordPress

Content Tools

Configuring WordPress

Code Overview

Downloading

Exploring the Code

Configuring Key Files

WP-Content User Playground

Tour Of The Core

What's in the Core?

Using the Core as a Reference

WordPress Codex and Resources

Don't Hack Core!

The Loop

Understanding the Loop

Putting the Loop in Context

Flow of the Loop

Template Tags

Customizing the Loop

Global Variables

Working Outside the Loop

Data Management

Database Schema

Table Details

Direct Database Manipulation

WordPress Taxonomy

Building Your Own Taxonomies

Plugin Development

Plugin Packaging

Know Your Hooks: Actions and Filters

Plugin Settings

WordPress Integration

Plugin Security

Creating a Plugin Example

Publish to the Plugin Directory

Theme Development

Why Use a Theme?

Installing a Theme

What Is a Theme?

Creating Your Own Theme

Creating Your Own Theme: Getting Started

Creating Your Own Theme: DRY

Creating Your Own Theme: Content Display

Creating Your Own Theme: Additional Files

Custom Page Templates

Theme Hierarchy and Child Themes

Premium Themes and Other Theme Frameworks

Content Aggregation

What is a Lifestream?

Getting Noticed

Social Media Buttons

Simple Social Networking Badges

Collecting External Content

Pushing Content from WordPress to Other Sites

Advertising

Privacy and History

Crafting A User Experience

User Experience Principles

Usability and Usability Testing

Structuring Your Information

Getting Your Site Found

How Web Standards Get Your Data Discovered

Searching Your Own Site

Mobile Access

Statistics, Scalability, Security, And Spam

Statistics Counters

Cache Management

Load Balancing Your WordPress Site

Dealing With Spam

Securing Your WordPress Site

Using WordPress Roles

Wordpress As A Content Management System 299

Defining Content Management

Workflow and Delegation

Content Organization

Interactivity Features

Other Content Management Systems

Wordpress In The Enterprise

Is WordPress Right for Your Enterprise?

When WordPress Isn't Right for You

Scalability

Integration with Enterprise Identity Management

Content Integration via Feeds

Migrating To Wordpress

Planning a Migration

Content Identification

Media Migration

Moving Metadata

Moving Authors and Users

Theme and Presentation

Unique Functionality

Cleaning Up

Launching

Wordpress Developer Community

Contributing to WordPress

Sister Projects

Resources

Index

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