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WordPress 3 Complete

By : April Hodge Silver
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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

Pages


At first glance, pages look very similar to posts. Both pages and posts have a title and a content area in which we can write extended text. However, pages are handled quite differently from posts. Pages don't have a timestamp, categories, or tags. Posts belong to your blog, which are meant to be a part of an ongoing expanding section of your website, and are added regularly. Pages are more static and aren't generally expected to change that much.

When you installed WordPress, a page was automatically created for you (along with the first post and first comment). You can see it by clicking on the About link in the main navigation menu at the top of your site:

Adding a page

To add a new page, go to your WP Admin, and navigate to Pages | Add New, or use the drop-down menu in the top grey menu by clicking on the arrow next to New Post and choosing New Page. This will take you to the Add New Page screen:

The minimum you need to do to create a new page is type in a title and some content...