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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

Chapter 4. Doing anything withPlugins and Widgets

Even if WordPress itself is very powerful and complete, some third party plugins and widgets can enhance its functionality or provide new features, without forcing you to edit a single line of code.

In this recipe, I'm going to show you both basic tasks, installing plugins and widgets, and more complex things such as creating different widget-ready zones on your WordPress theme.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • Installing plugins

  • Getting rid of comment spams with Akismet

  • Backing up your database with WP database backup

  • Optimizing your blog performances with WP Super Cache

  • Adding redirects for changed Permalinks

  • Getting more comments with the Subscribe to Comments plugin

  • Accessing real time statistics with WordPress.com Stats

  • Monetizing your blog with ISIS Ads Management

  • Extending WordPress search with Search Unleashed

  • Installing widgets

  • Making your sidebar widget-ready

  • Creating two (or more) different widget-ready zones

  • Modifying core widgets

  • Creating your...