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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

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 ñ 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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Extending WordPress search with Search Unleashed


I have heard a lot of WordPress users complaining about the lack of possibilities in the WordPress built-in search. If you ever wished to provide your readers a full text search, wildcards, and even text highlighting across posts, this plugin is for you.

Getting ready

You can grab the Search Unleashed plugin at http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-unleashed/. Next, simply install it according to the standard plugin installation procedure described earlier.

Once the plugin is installed successfully, you'll be able to customize its option on a Search Unleashed page located under Manage.

How to do it...

There's a bit of configuration needed for the plugin to work properly:

  1. Login to your WordPress dashboard and go to Manage | Search Unleashed.

  2. Click on the Modules link.

  3. Select the data that you want to be indexed by the plugin, as shown in the following screenshot.

  4. Click on the Options link.

  5. Configure the options to fit your needs (Page title, search...