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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

Getting notified when a new draft is saved


As a blog administrator, you have to know what your authors and contributors are working on. Sure you can ask them, but it can become a boring task quickly if you have many different contributors.

Getting ready

The solution to the stated problem is a plugin called Draft Notification. When someone creates a new draft on your blog, you'll automatically receive an email.

How to do it...

  1. Of course, the first thing to do is to get the plugin. You can download it from the following URL: http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/draft-notification-plugin-for-wordpress/.

  2. Once you have downloaded the file, rename the .txt extension to .php and install it according to the standard installation procedure, as described in Chapter 4.

  3. That's all! Now, every time a new draft will be saved you'll receive an email notification. Please note that the creation of this plugin is such that it also sends out an email when an existing draft has been modified and saved again.

  4. Since...