Book description
Find and install the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and generating revenue
- Learn WordPress plugin basics for both Macs and PCs
- Focuses exclusively on 100% free and open plugins
- Screenshots for each plugin
- Organized by complexity to install and manage
- Search Terms for automatic installation of plugins
- Instructions on configuring and setting up the more complex plugins
In Detail
Bloggers, authors, coders, photographers, moms, dads, big companies, small companies, and even kids use WordPress to manifest their personas online. WordPress is used in every market, in every country, and continues to grow everyday. This explosive growth and international open source love affair was ignited the day WordPress announced the simple idea of a 'plugin'
A WordPress plugin is a collection of files (PHP, javascript, css) that creates a small feature or modification to your WordPress blog. WordPress Top Plugins will teach you to add these plugins to an already built base WordPress site, and customize them where applicable.
This book will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, for building communities and reader base, and for generating real advertising revenue.
There is literally a plugin for almost anything you want to achieve in WordPress. This book will show you how plugins work, and more importantly, how to install and activate them on your blog without you having to touch a single line of code, unless of course, you want to.
Content is king, and it’s pretty hard to generate. This book will cover some of the best plugins available on WordPress to generate unique and dynamic content.
Once you have your blog loaded chock full of juicy content, you will learn how to turn your blog in to an overnight sensation by helping your readers to share it, using tools to retweet, post on Facebook, and so on.
This book will teach you how to build a community with one single killer plugin, namely, BuddyPress—the best community building plugin available for WordPress.
Once you are through with plugin basics, content, and building a community, this book will show you how to generate revenue! It will cover the top plugins for turning your blog into a money making machine! This book will also cover plugins focused on tweaking and perfecting your blog’s overall look and feel, and functionality.
Nothing helps build a powerful online blog brand than a horde of talented writers to contribute their ideas and content – as well as their social network. This book will cover a bunch of plugins that will make working with multiple authors easy, efficient, and effective.
Last but not the least, it will cover the best plugins for ensuring that your blog is secure, the database is running optimally, and in the case of an emergency, you have a full backup copy of your blog. While most plugins in this book are focused on a blog’s frontend, this book will also cover some great 'non-public' facing plugins that make our lives so much easier and make your WordPress site a productive powerhouse.
Find and install the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and generating revenue
Table of contents
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WordPress Top Plugins
- Table of Contents
- WordPress Top Plugins
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- Preface
- 1. Plugin Basics
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2. Generating Content
- GD Star Rating
- Better Tag Cloud
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
- My Page Order
- Get Recent Comments
- Viper's Video Quicktags
- WP Greet Box
- NextGen Gallery
- Zemanta
- CForms II
- MapPress—Google maps
- WP-O-Matic
- Search unleashed
- WP Web Scrapper
- Summary
- 3. Sharing Content
- 4. Style and Function
- 5. Building a Community with BuddyPress
- 6. Generating Revenue
- 7. Working with Multiple Authors
- 8. Security and Maintenance
- 9. Power Admin
- 10. Time for Action
- Index
Product information
- Title: WordPress Top Plugins
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2010
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849511407
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