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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

Time for action – making a sign-up button


The sign-up link on our chosen theme isn't exactly prominent. At first glance, new users may think that the site is private and that they can't join without contacting the administrator. While we do want to have some control over who joins SlayerCafe.com, we don't want to discourage people from applying. After all, the more people who join the fight against the vampires, the better.

Let's place a register link at the top of the screen where people can see it:

  1. Open the header.php file for the theme that you are using for your home page. You will find the following piece of code:

    <div id="navbar">
    	<ul>
    <li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">
    <?php _e('Home');?></a></li>
  2. Add in a sign-up link, along with a Log In and Log Out link.

    <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
    <li><?php wp_register(' ' , ' '); ?></li>
  3. Log in to the admin panel, go to Site Admin | Options, and...