WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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Product Description

100 simple but incredibly useful recipes to take control of your WordPress blog layout, themes, widgets, plug-ins, security, and SEO

Take your WordPress blog to the next level with solutions to common WordPress problems that make your blog better, smarter, faster, and more secure
Enhance your SEO and make more money online by applying simple hacks
Fully tested and compatible with WordPress 2.7
Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

In Detail

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay.

The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks - from themes to widgets and from SEO to security.

Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.

What you will learn from this book?

Use filters to add more features to WordPress without editing any core files
Easily transform a personal blog to a complete, multi-author online magazine
Turn any free WordPress theme into a powerful and polished premium theme by changing colors and fonts, inserting your custom logo, and more
Transform a classic theme into a captivating Photoblog
Learn how plug-ins and widgets work, and how you can create your own
Integrate popular services into your blog including Twitter, FeedBurner, Digg, del.icio.us, and many more
Learn proven techniques to attract more readers and comments
Incorporate advertisements into your RSS feed
Tips and tricks to secure your blog and optimize it for SEO

Approach

This is a Packt Cookbook, which means it contains step-by-step instructions to achieve a particular goal or solve a particular problem. The book can be read chapter by chapter, or you can look at the table of contents and read the recipes in no particular order.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for anyone who wants to enhance their WordPress blog to make it engaging and feature-rich. It is not specifically for developers or programmers; rather it can be used by anyone who wants to get more out of their WordPress blog by following step-by-step instructions. A basic knowledge of PHP/XHTML/CSS/WordPress is desirable but not necessary.

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Was Just What I Needed!

Review Date: September 13, 2009

Reviewer: Milo Bloom, Milo's Meadow, USA

So I'd dived into wordpress, and had all the basics covered...installation, theme selection, etc. What I didn't have was the know-how to make the tweaks and changes to turn the basics into something I was happy to have my name on. Ideas were not a problem -- just the "how". I opened this book to a random page and found the solution to one of the 50 little tweaks I had in mind. It wasn't the easy way out either, as Mr. Author-Guy began by noting that the simplest solution was the worst because it was detrimental to "search engine optimization." So I took the smarter route that Mr. Author-Guy proposed and learned a lot in the process. One tweak down, 49 to go!

I'd say this is a book for the "intermediate beginner" or "advanced amateur". If you've bought Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read, as I did (and recommend for beginners!), then you could do WAY worse than to make this book #2.

It was *exactly* what I needed.

A bit of a swiss army knife of WP techniques

Review Date: January 5, 2010

Reviewer: Estevan Benson, los angeles, ca United States

I would recommend this book for anyone who already understands what PHP, XTML and CSS is. You don't have to be skilled in those areas to follow the recipes in this book though. A third of it may cover very basic ground if you're already a novice but you're bound to find at least a few very handy ideas in this book that any Wordpress project would need. I'd like to see more Wordpress Cookbooks.

Lots of the content is freely available on the web

Review Date: March 16, 2010

Reviewer: Mr. Shane Porter, Manchester

Packt Publishing's WordPress 2.7 Cookbook has been out for while now, but I still thought I'd pick up a copy and give it the once-over. Rather than being a reference guide, Jean-Baptiste Jung's book is very much like his very own [...] website.

The book is organised into 11 Chapters:

1. Getting Ready to Cook with WordPress
2. Finding and Installing Themes
3. Get the most out of your WordPress Theme
4. Doing anything with Plugins and Widgets
5. Displaying Posts
6. Managing and Enhancing Multi-Author Blogs
7. Securing your WordPress Blog
8. SEO Tips and Tricks to Get More Visits
9. Making Money with WordPress
10. Enhancing User Experience
11. Make your Blog stand out

Some of the recipes include integrating twitter on your theme using the Twitter Tools plugin, accessing post data outside the WordPress loop and securing your plugins directory. The recipes are generally between 1 and 4 pages in length, and there is lots of useful information in the book's 280 or so pages of content, but it's just the sort of thing that's freely available on the [...] website and other popular sites such as Smashing Magazine.

If you are after a large collection of recipes in a single package, this is the book for you, but if you're happy reading WordPress blogs about WordPress such as [...] website, you may feel a little short-changed.

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