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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

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By: RACHEL MCCOLLIN

Overview of this book

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) and you can use it to create any kind of site you or your clients need. Using free plugins and themes for WordPress, you can create a store, a social media site, a review site, a video site, a network of sites or a community site, and more. Wordpress makes your job of creating your own website simple and hassle-free! If you’ve started using WordPress to create a blog or simple website, you’ll have had a taste of the opportunities offered by this massively popular CMS. This book will take you through the process of creating ten popular kinds of site using WordPress with free plugins and themes, each chapter covering various functionality of the web. After having learned how to migrate from your static site to Wordpress in the first chapter, you will then explore the world of social networking websites followed focusing on e-commerce. Without writing too much code, you’ll be able to create a store, a video streaming site, a team communications site, a jobs board, and more. This book is a one-stop solution to resolve all your worries about creating a website that will give the best experience to your users.
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Installing plugins

Plugins can do just about any job you can think of, but some of the most common are:

  • Widgets to put in your sidebar or footer
  • Shortcodes that let you add code into your page without actually writing the code
  • Image galleries and slideshows
  • Links to external sites, such as social media feeds
  • SEO plugins to help you get found by search engines
  • Forms plugins to help your visitors get in touch with you
  • Performance plugins that will make your site run faster

Let's install a popular SEO plugin called WordPress SEO by Yoast:

  1. Go to Plugins | Add New.
  2. In the Search plugins... box, type WordPress SEO and hit the Enter key.
  3. WordPress will display a list of plugins, meeting your search criteria. Find the plugin called WordPress SEO by Yoast and click on the Install Now button.
  4. When asked whether you're sure you want to install the plugin, click on OK.
  5. When you see the success screen, click on the Activate link.
  6. The plugin is now installed and activated on your site.

I'm not going to show you how to configure the plugin as that's outside the scope of this book, but you will find guidance on the plugin website at https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/.

Now try installing some more plugins according to your site's needs. We'll be working with lots of plugins in the other chapters of this book, so you'll get to try plenty of them out.

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