Lisa Sabin-Wilson - WordPress All-in-One For Dummies

WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

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1. Table of Contents

WordPress is the most popular online content management software on the planet. Between the hosted service at WordPress.com and the self-hosted software available at WordPress.org, millions of bloggers use WordPress, and to date, WordPress powers 25 percent of the Internet. Thats impressive. With WordPress, you can truly tailor a website to your own tastes and needs.

With no cost for using the benefits of the WordPress platform to publish content on the web, WordPress is as priceless as it is free. WordPress makes writing, editing, and publishing content on the Internet a delightful, fun, and relatively painless experience, whether youre a publisher, a designer, a developer, or a hobbyist blogger.

The fact that WordPress is free and accessible to all, however, doesnt make it inherently easy for everyone to use. For some people, the technologies, terminology, and coding practices are a little intimidating or downright daunting. WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition, eliminates any intimidation about using WordPress. With a little research, knowledge, and time, youll soon have a blog that suits your needs and gives your readers an exciting experience that keeps them coming back for more.

WordPress All-in-One For Dummies is a complete guide to WordPress that covers the basics: installing and configuring the software, using the Dashboard, publishing content, creating themes, and developing plugins. Additionally, this book provides advanced information about security, the WordPress tools, the Multisite features, and search engine optimization.

I make some inescapable assumptions about you and your knowledge, including the following:

• Youre comfortable using a computer, mouse, and keyboard.
• You have a good understanding of how to access the Internet, use email, and use a web browser to access web pages.
• You have a basic understanding of what a website is; perhaps you already maintain your own.
• You want to use WordPress for your online publishing, or you want to use the various WordPress features to improve your online publishing.

If you consider yourself to be an advanced user of WordPress, or if your friends refer to you as an all-knowing WordPress guru, chances are good that youll find some of the information in this book elementary. This book is for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users; theres something here for everyone.

The little pictures in the margins of the book emphasize a point to remember, a danger to be aware of, or information that you may find helpful. This book uses the following icons:

Tips are little bits of information that you may find useful procedures that aren't necessarily obvious to a casual user or beginner.

When your mother warned you, Dont touch that pan its hot! but you touched it anyway, you discovered the meaning of Ouch! I use this icon for situations like that one. You may very well touch the hot pan, but you can't say that I didn't warn you!

All geeky stuff goes here. I use this icon when talking about technical information. You can skip it, but I think that youll find some great nuggets of information next to these icons. You may even surprise yourself by enjoying them. Be careful you may turn into a geek overnight!