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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

Customizing WordPress admin login page


If you're creating a WordPress web site for a client, you'll probably like to make his or her login page a bit more personal than the default. In this recipe, we'll see how to make a custom admin login page for your clients, or even for yourself.

While writing this recipe, I was tempted to provide you two ways to customize your admin login page: with the help of a plugin, and by using a hack. But in the hack method, you are required to edit the WordPress core files, this really isn’t a good idea. For example, suppose you hack the WordPress core successfully, but when you update your WordPress installation your hacks will be replaced by the new WordPress files. You'll have to hack again the new version, and so on.

This is the reason why, in this recipe, we shall discuss only about the plugin solution, which I think is really the best for the current scenario. The following screenshot shows a custom admin branding displayed on www.womantribune.com.

How to...