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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

Adding feed links


WordPress automatically generates even the feed links that you see in the preceding screenshot, so you don't have to type them in or remember what they are for. If you're using an existing theme, there's a good chance it's already got the feed links in it, in which case you can skip the following section. If it doesn't, or if you want to learn more about adding feed links to your own templates, continue on here!

You can use handy built-in WordPress functions to add feeds to your theme. Let's add a variety of feeds to the theme we created in Chapter 6. We'll add a feed for the whole website, the individual categories, and the comments on posts.

Feeds for the whole website

First, let's add feeds for all the posts and all the comments on the website. If you're not already using the theme we created in Chapter 6, you may want to download it now from http://www.packtpub.com/files/code/4101_Code.zip and install it on your blog, because that is where we'll be adding the feeds...