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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)
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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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Getting Ready to Cook with WordPress
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Getting Ready to Cook with WordPress
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Managing media files with the Media Library
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Live editing themes with the built-in Theme Editor
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Editing plugins with the WordPress built-in Plugin Editor
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Managing authors and users with the User Manager
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Importing and exporting content with the Import and Export tool
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Finding and Installing Themes
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Finding and Installing Themes
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Installing a theme
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Get the most out ofyour WordPress Theme
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Get the most out ofyour WordPress Theme
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Modifying your theme colors
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Modifying your theme fonts
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Creating and integrating a favicon
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Integrating your own logo
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Adding social bookmarking buttons to your theme
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Integrating Feedburner feeds on your theme
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Integrating Twitter on your theme using the Twitter Tools plugin
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Displaying your Twitter entries on your blog using a page template
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Customizing WordPress admin login page
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Using conditional tags to display content on specific pages
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Using page templates in your theme
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Creating an archive page
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Creating a custom 404 error page
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Using a static page as a homepage
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Creating a Featured Posts block on your homepage
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Making your new posts stands out with a custom style
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Doing anything withPlugins and Widgets
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Doing anything withPlugins and Widgets
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Installing plugins
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Getting rid of comment spams with Akismet
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Backing up your database with WP Database Backup
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Scheduling automatic backups
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Optimizing your blog performances with WP Super Cache
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Adding redirects for changed Permalinks
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Getting more comments with the Subscribe to Comments plugin
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Accessing real time statistics with WordPress.com Stats
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Monetizing your blog with ISIS Ads Management
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Extending WordPress search with Search Unleashed
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Installing widgets
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Making your sidebar widget-ready
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Creating two (or more) different widget-ready zones
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Modifying core widgets
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Creating your own widget
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Displaying Posts
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Displaying Posts
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Getting posts within the WordPress loop
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Retrieving posts from a particular category only
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Getting an exact number of posts
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Retrieving posts by date
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Getting posts published today
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Getting posts published exactly a year ago
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Using two different loops withoutduplicate posts
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Accessing post data outside of the WordPress loop
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Accessing permalinks outside the loop
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Displaying any RSS feed on your blog
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Displaying thumbnails on your blog homepage
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Alternating background color on post list
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Displaying posts in two columns
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Saving time by using WordPress shortcodes
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Creating a nice download message box using a shortcode
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Managing and Enhancing Multi-Author Blogs
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Managing and Enhancing Multi-Author Blogs
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Creating an author page template
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Displaying a custom login form in your blog's sidebar
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Adding a control panel to your blog's sidebar
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Configuring author roles
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Displaying author-related information on posts
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Displaying author picture on posts
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Displaying the author's gravatar picture on posts
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Adding moderation buttons to the comments
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Getting notified when a new draft is saved
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Allowing multiple authors on posts
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Displaying a list of all of the authors
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Securing yourWordPress Blog
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Securing yourWordPress Blog
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Creating manual backups of your WordPress blog
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Restoring a MySQL backup
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Creating backups of your WordPress files
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Using a shell script to create automatic files and database backups
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Securing your plugins directory
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Removing a WordPress version from the theme files
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Getting rid of the Administrator account
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Forbiding login automatically after some failed login attempt
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Protecting the wp-admin directory brute force with the help of AskApache
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Restricting wp-admin directory to your IP address
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Testing your blog security
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Denying comment posting on no referrer requests
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SEO Tips and Tricks to Get More Visits
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SEO Tips and Tricks to Get More Visits
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Optimizing your permalinks for SEO
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Migrating your permalinks safely
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Optimizing your title tag for SEO
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Creating Meta descriptions for your posts
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Avoiding duplicate content with a robot.txt file
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Adding a sitemap to your blog
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Using Google Webmaster Tools
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Pinging third party services
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Enhancing your WordPress blog SEO with the All in One SEO Pack plugin
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Making Money with WordPress
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Making Money with WordPress
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Integrating Adsense to your WordPress blog
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Displaying ads anywhere in your posts by using WordPress shortcodes
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Displaying Adsense ads to search enginesvisitors only
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Managing who Sees Ads
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Inserting ads in your RSS feeds
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Redirecting your WordPress RSS feeds to Feedburner
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Showing your blog stats to find advertisers
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Enhancing your Advertise page by adding Paypal subscriptions
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Enhancing UserExperience
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Enhancing UserExperience
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Replacing the Next and Previous links by a paginator
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Highlighting searched text in search results
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Using the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress
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Creating a drop-down menu for your categories
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Adding a breadcrumb to your theme
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Displaying related posts
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Displaying tabs on your sidebar
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Make your Blog Stand Out
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Make your Blog Stand Out
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Rewarding your commentators to get more comments
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Adding a print stylesheet to your blog
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Creating your own Photoblog theme
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Creating an iPhone-friendly version of your blog
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Integrating a forum in your WordPress blog
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Getting posts within the WordPress loop

What is the WordPress loop? The loop is a group of PHP instructions that allows you to retrieve your posts from the database. In this recipe, you'll learn how to use the WordPress loop efficiently.

Getting ready

The WordPress loop is basically a simple PHP loop that fetches posts from the database and displays it on the page. It can be placed anywhere on your theme files. All available themes use it to retrieve the posts, for example on index.php, single.php, or page.php.

How to do it...

Paste the following code where you'd like to display the list of posts. Most of the time, the loop is used on the index.php, category.php, search.php files, but you can use it wherever you want, for example, on a page using a custom page template.

if ( have_posts() ) : 
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
      <?php the_title();?>
      <?php the_content();?>
      <?php endwhile;
endif; ?>

How it works...

This basic piece of code first checks...

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