Deeper Into WordPress

If you enjoyed WordPress Basics, then strap yourself in for Deeper Into WordPress! Join award-winning trainer Geoff Blake as he takes you through the ins and outs of creating full-featured WordPress-driven blogs and websites! In the second half of this two-part series, you'll discover techniques and tools that will take your blog beyond the basics. You'll learn how to sort and organize your posts with categories and tags, how to create and manage a blogroll, and how to adjust and customize your blog's permalinks and RSS feeds. From there, you'll discover how to work with stand-alone WordPress pages, and how they differ from normal posts. Finally, dig into customizing and extending your blog even further by getting introduced to the amazing possibilities with widgets and plug-ins. All this and more awaits in Deeper Into WordPress ... get started today! Table of contents: 1. Welcome 2. Getting Started With Categories 3. Creating New Blog Categories 4. Gettin’ Organized; Applying Categories To Posts 5. Setting Your Blog’s Default Category (And A Fast W... 6. Get Applying Tags To Posts 7. Understanding Pages Versus Posts 8. Editing And Scratch Building WordPress Pages 9. Technique #3: Creating An HTML Contact Page With Dre... 10. Setting Your Blog’s Front Page And Going Further ... 11. Controlling Page Order And Hierarchy 12. Makin’ Use Of Your Theme’s Page Templates 13. What The Heck Is A Blogroll? Let’s Get Started 14. Adding Links To Your Blogroll 15. Adding And Removing Blogroll Links 16. Creating Custom Link Categories 17. Viewing A Blog’s Comments 18. A Real-World Look At The Disqus Commenting System 19. Moderating Comments On Your Blog 20. Setting Up Discussion Options 21. Allowing Others To Contribute: Adding Additional Us... 22. Understanding WordPress’s Different User Privileg... 23. Setting Your Blog’s Permalinks 24. So Let’s Get Creating Custom Permalinks 25. Viewing Your Blog’s .htaccess File 26. Blog Syndication: Understanding RSS Feeds 27. Determining Your Blog’s RSS URL 28. Figuring Out RSS Feeds For Your Blog’s Categories 29. A First Look At Widgets 30. Diggin’ Into Sidebar Customization 31. Getting More Comfortable With Widgets (And Setting ... 32. A First Look At The Arbitrary Text Widget 33. Using Dreamweaver To Creating A Custom Widget 34. Technique #4: Adding A Twitter Widget To Your Blog 35. Now On To Plugins: A Big Toe In The Massive Pool Of... 36. Exploring The WordPress Plugin Directory 37. Installing And Configuring Plugins 38. Manually Installing Plugins On Your Blog 39. Task #3: Ten Killer WordPress Plugins To Explore 40. Adding In Some Custom Widgets 41. Wrap-Up