Book Image

WordPress 3 Complete

By : April Hodge Silver
Book Image

WordPress 3 Complete

By: April Hodge Silver

Overview of this book

<p>Using the WordPress Content Management System, you can create a beautiful, dynamic, and amazing website. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.</p> <p><em>Wordpress 3 Complete</em> will teach you everything you need to know both to get started with WordPress and also to unlock its massive hidden powers. This book will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and will also get you up and running with WordPress quickly and painlessly. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so that you can build your own complete website.</p> <p><em>WordPress 3 Complete</em> begins from scratch, starting with how to install WordPress, all the way to the most advanced topics such as creating your own themes, writing plugins, and including custom post types in your website.</p> <p>Starting with downloading and installing the core WordPress software, you will take a detailed look at WordPress settings and also choose the settings that will work best for your website or blog. After that, the book will teach you all about content management functionality for your site – from posts and pages to categories and tags, all the way to links, media, menus, images, galleries, and more. Finally, you'll learn how to create your own themes and plugins to enhance the overall functionality of your website.</p> <p>Once you're done with <em>WordPress 3 Complete</em>, you'll be an expert in everything WordPress, from content management through technical steps such as backing up your site.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 3 Complete
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Posting on your blog


The central activity you'll be doing with your blog is adding posts. A post is like an article in a magazine; it's got a title, content, and an author (in this case, you, though WordPress allows multiple authors to contribute to a blog). If a blog is like an online diary, then every post is an entry in that diary. A blog post also has a lot of other information attached to it, such as a date, excerpt, tags, and categories. In this section, you will learn how to create a new post and what kind of information to attach to it.

Adding a simple post

Let's review the process of adding a simple post to your blog, which we carried out in the previous chapter. Whenever you want to add content or carry out a maintenance process on your WordPress website, you have to start by logging into the WP Admin (WordPress Administration panel) of your site. To get to the admin panel, just point your web browser to http://yoursite.com/wp-admin.

Note

Remember that if you have installed...