WordPress: The Missing Manual
Matthew MacDonald
Language: English
Pages: 612
ISBN: 144934190X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned Web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites, once you know how to tap its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 3.9’s themes, widgets, plug-ins, and souped-up editing and multimedia tools to build just about any kind of site.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Create your site. Get hands-on, A-to-Z instructions for building all types of websites, from classy blogs to professional-looking ecommerce sites.
- Add features. Choose from thousands of widgets and plug-ins to enhance your site’s ease of use, looks, and performance.
- Mix in multimedia. Add picture galleries, slideshows, video clips, music players, and podcasts to your pages.
- Attract an audience. Create automatic content feeds, sign up site subscribers, and help readers share your posts on social media.
- Fine-tune your content. Analyze site statistics to improve your content and reach, and to optimize your site for search engines.
- Go Mobile. Choose a theme that automatically reconfigures your site for mobile devices.
- Build a truly unique site. Learn how to customize WordPress themes to create a site that looks exactly the way you want it to.
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Chapter 3: Installing WordPress on Your Web Host 61 Installing WordPress with an Autoinstaller Remember, many control panels have a search feature that lets you type in the name of the feature you want, rather than forcing you to hunt through dozens of icons. 3. Click the Softaculous icon. Softaculous shows a large, colorful tab for each program it can install using a setup script (Figure 3-7). Figure 3-7 Along the left, Softaculous lists all the scripts it supports. But you won't need to
update, click the Update WordPress button. If there's a newer theme or plug-in, turn on the checkbox next to that theme or plug-in, and then click Update Themes or Update Plugins. WordPress updates are impressively easy. There's no need to enter more information or suffer through a long wait. Instead, you'll see a brief summary that tells you what happened (Figure 3-19). Your site will carry on functioning exactly as it had before. 76 WordPress: The Missing Manual Maintaining Your Site
to the new style. If you’re switching from the default style to another style, this never causes a problem, because the ID-based links continue to work. (That’s because no matter what permalink style you use, WordPress continues to give each post a unique post ID, which it stores in its database.) However, if you switch to a second permalink style (for example, “Day and name”) and then to a third style (say, “Month and name”), the outlook isn’t so rosy. Anyone who bookmarked a “Day and
get started, you may want to delete the stock links, so they don’t distract you. To do that, turn on the checkbox in the header row, at the very top-left of the table, next to the word “Name.” This selects every link at once. Then, choose Delete from the Bulk Actions list, and click the Apply button. Note You don’t need to delete the sample links. WordPress organizes links into categories, and it keeps the sample WordPress links in a category called “Blogroll.” So long as you use a different
himself, so he not only has to supply the content (the pictures and descriptions of his cakes), he also has to format each page the same way, because each page has two parts—a description of the cake and a picture of it—and he wants his pages to be consistent. But, as so often happens, a week after he releases his site, Jan realizes it could be better. He decides to revamp his web pages with a fresh, new color scheme and add a calorie-counting calculator in the sidebar. Applying these changes to