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WordPress Complete

By : Hasin Hayder
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WordPress Complete

By: Hasin Hayder

Overview of this book

<p>WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.<br /><br />If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.<br /><br />You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog. In working through the book you'll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
WordPress Complete
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Feed Readers


After learning about feeds, you may wonder how these feeds are used or consumed by people in real life. Well, there are both web-based feed aggregators and desktop applications, which are called feed readers. These feed readers read feeds at a regular interval and mark the new items in bold (or with some other format). Thus, you can clearly understand what is new after your last visit to the particular website that produced the feed.

Some of the most popular feed readers are mentioned in the following list:

  • RSS Owl: This is an incredibly small application built on Java SWT technology. It is fast, small, and easy to use. RSS Owl requires Java runtime to work properly. This is an open-source software that you can obtain from http://www.rssowl.org.

  • Built-in feed reader of Firefox: The Firefox browser comes with a built-in feed reader. So whenever you point your browser to a feed URL, it is displayed in a nice and pleasing readable format.

  • Google feed reader: Google feed reader...