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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers. This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves. The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site. Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter touched on some ways you can increase traffic to your blog.

We learned how to use pings to send updates to blog aggregators so that they know that there is new content on your site. We also learned how to use the trackback feature so that bloggers can have a dialogue with each other and can carry out a discussion via blog posts and comments.

We learned about tagging—allowing users to tag their posts, making it easier to find posts about a certain topic at a later date. We looked at the benefits of RSS feeds, both for allowing content syndication and for letting users subscribe to individual blogs so that they know when new posts have been made.

Social bookmarking sites were discussed as well. We learned how to add a Bookmark This button to our blog posts, which should encourage our readers to share the post with their friends and fellow social bookmarking site users.

We also looked tracking statistics about the usage your RSS feeds, along with sending updates to Twitter...