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    WordPress Top Plugins

    By Brandon Corbin

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    Time flies when you're having fun. This is the right way to describe this WordPress Top Plugins book by Brandon Corbin. With real world examples and by showing you the perks of having these plugins installed on your websites, the author is all set to captivate your interest from start to end. Regardless of whether this is your first time working with WordPress, or you’re a seasoned WordPress coding ninja, WordPress Top Plugins will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and reader base, and generating real advertising revenue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 21, 2010
    ISBN9781849511414
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    WordPress Top Plugins - Brandon Corbin

    Table of Contents

    WordPress Top Plugins

    Credits

    About the Author

    About the Reviewer

    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Plugin Basics

    Safety first

    Automatic install versus manual install

    Automatic plugin installation

    Plugin detail

    Downloading, unpacking, installing

    Activating the plugin

    Connection Information required

    Manual installation

    Manually installing a plugin with a Mac

    Transferring a plugin

    Manually installing a plugin on Windows

    Creating a bookmark with WinSCP

    Transferring a plugin to your blog

    Activating your plugin

    Finding a plugin's settings

    How plugins work

    Managing plugins

    Keeping your plugins up-to-date

    Learn by tinkering

    WordPress plugin API

    PHP references

    CSS

    JavaScript

    Troubleshooting plugins

    Editing plugins

    Summary

    2. Generating Content

    GD Star Rating

    Fixing the default ratings

    Turning off Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down on posts

    Turning off Star Ratings on comments

    Better Tag Cloud

    Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

    My Page Order

    Get Recent Comments

    Viper's Video Quicktags

    WP Greet Box

    NextGen Gallery

    Setting up your first gallery

    Adding your gallery to a post or a page

    Zemanta

    CForms II

    CForms administration

    Modifying the default form

    Adding your form to a page, post, or widget

    Advanced CForms customizations

    File upload settings

    Messages, text, and button label

    Core Form Admin / e-mail options

    Admin e-mail message options

    Auto confirmation

    Multi-part / multi-page forms

    Tell-A-Friend form support

    WP comment feature

    Third-party read-notification support

    MapPress—Google maps

    Adding a map to a post or page

    WP-O-Matic

    Creating your first campaign

    Adding feeds

    Categories

    Understanding WP-O-Matic's options

    Search unleashed

    Setting up your search index

    Creating your first index

    WP Web Scrapper

    Copyright warning

    Adding a scrapping

    Summary

    3. Sharing Content

    TweetMeme

    Setting up TweetMeme

    Wordbook

    WP Download Manager

    Adding a new download

    Inserting a download into a post

    Twiogle Twitter Commenter

    ShareThis

    Setting up ShareThis

    Wibiya Bar - Beta

    Installing the Wibiya bar

    WP Facebook Connect

    Creating an app ID for your blog

    Adding the connect button to your comments

    Twitter Friendly Links

    Feedburner Feedsmith

    Burning your feed

    Create a Google account

    Verify your blog's feed URL

    Burn your feed

    Name your feed

    Configuring WP-Feedburner

    SendIt

    SendIt overview

    Creating your first newsletter

    Adding subscribers

    Automatic import

    SendIt Widget

    Sending a mail

    Subscribe-Remind

    Sociable

    Understanding social options

    Disabling sprite usage for images

    Disabling alpha mask on the share toolbar

    Tagline

    Position

    Use Text Links

    Image Directory

    Use Thisbox/iFrame on links

    Open in New Window

    Awe.sm

    Summary

    4. Style and Function

    About Me Widget

    Setting up your About Me Widget

    Category Posts Widget

    After the Deadline

    Using After the Deadline

    WordPress Mobile Pack

    Mobile themes

    Browser detection and domain detection

    Important Mobile Themes settings

    WPTouch

    Web App icon

    Page icons

    Creating your own icon

    Push notifications

    WP-Prowl

    Setting up WP-Prowl

    Favicons

    Setting up your Favicon

    Picking from the gallery

    Use your Gravatar as Favicon

    Using a remote icon

    Theme Switcher

    Advanced marketing use

    Image Widget

    Post Layout

    Inserting content

    Breadcrumb NavXT

    Inserting the Breadcrumb

    Basic Breadcrumb

    Exec-PHP

    Using Exec-PHP to list your latest tweets

    Summary

    5. Building a Community with BuddyPress

    Before setting up BuddyPress

    Sticking to your Community Purpose

    BuddyPress

    BuddyPress features

    Smooth member signup

    Twitter-like posting

    Profiles

    Member communication

    Forums

    Groups

    Members Directory

    BuddyPress themes

    Cosmic Buddy

    BP Nicey

    Sense and Sensibility BP 1.6

    More themes

    BuddyPress plugins

    Group Documents

    TweetStream

    Connecting to Twitter

    BuddyPress Album+

    Setting up your Community Groups

    Step 1: Group details

    Step 2: Settings

    Step 3: Avatar

    Tips for driving traffic to your community

    Friends and family

    Social networks

    Twitter

    Facebook

    Google AdWords

    Google search

    Summary

    6. Generating Revenue

    Donation Can

    Zazzle Widget

    Setting up the Zazzle Widget

    AmazonFeed

    Setting up AmazonFeed

    Configuration

    Post / page specific items

    Advertising Manager

    Creating a Google AdSense Ad

    Creating your first ad in Advertising Manager

    Adding the Widget

    iTunes Affiliate Link Maker (iTALM)

    Adding links to a post

    WP e-Commerce, FREE Version

    Setting up WP e-Commerce

    Adding a digital product

    Product Detail

    Categories and Tags

    Price and Stock Control

    Shipping Details

    Product Images

    Product Download

    Setting up your Payment Gateway

    Web Invoice—invoicing and billing for WordPress

    Setting up an invoice

    Select the client

    Client Information

    Recurring Billing

    Invoice Details

    Publish

    My Ad Manager

    Creating the Advertise Here Page

    Adding the Widget

    Setting up your House Ads

    Summary

    7. Working with Multiple Authors

    Authors Widget

    Author Spotlight

    Styling the Author widget

    Blog Metrics

    Cimy User Extra Fields

    Pre-Publish Reminder

    Edit Flow

    Audit Trail

    WP-CMS Post Control

    Guest Blogger

    Adding a new article import

    Subscribe to Author Posts Feed

    Author Advertising

    Setting up Author Advertising widget

    The Author Page

    Advertising code

    Co-Author Plus

    Private Messages for WordPress

    Summary

    8. Security and Maintenance

    Security basics

    Passwords

    Update often

    Back up often

    Limit Login Attempts

    Setting up Limit Login Attempts

    Lockout

    Secure WordPress

    Secure WordPress's options explained

    Akismet

    Bad Behavior

    Upload+

    WP Security Scan

    Latest version

    Table prefix

    Hiding Version # and Meta Tag ID

    WordPress DB Errors

    .htaccess in Admin folder

    WP-DBManager

    Understanding your database's health

    What is a database?

    What is MySQL?

    How does WordPress use MySQL?

    Repair, Optimize, and Backup

    WP-DB-Backup

    WordPress Backup

    Maintenance Mode

    Customizing the maintenance notice

    WP-Optimize

    Quick Cache

    Quick Cache Options explained

    Error Reporting

    Auto Delete old log files

    Configuration

    Summary

    9. Power Admin

    Fluency Admin

    Quick key access

    Styling the login screen

    StatPress

    Key datapoints

    Latest Referrers

    Search Terms

    Operating Systems

    Browsers Used

    Spy View

    Notifier

    Shockingly Big IE6 Warning

    Admin Links Widget

    WordPress Admin Bar

    Code Editor

    WordPress Admin QuickMenu

    Setting up your links

    Email Users

    E-mail ideas

    Exclusive e-mailer

    Special deals and offers

    Helping a cause

    Tips and tricks

    Broken Link Checker

    Admin Management Xtended

    Understanding the interface

    Menu Manager

    Simple Tags

    Configuring third party Taxonomy Services

    Redirection

    Widget Logic

    Commonly used logic

    Summary

    10. Time for Action

    The open source business model

    WordPress for prototyping

    Real business models with WordPress

    Selling digital goods

    Selling themes

    Selling plugins

    Selling advertising spots

    Job board

    Corporate blogging software

    Hosting WordPress

    Continuing education

    Summary

    Index

    WordPress Top Plugins

    WordPress Top Plugins

    Copyright © 2010 Packt Publishing

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

    Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

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    First published: September 2010

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    Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

    ISBN 978-1-849511-40-7

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    Credits

    Author

    Brandon Corbin

    Reviewer

    M. Liz Allyn

    Acquisition Editor

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    Development Editor

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    Technical Editors

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    Proofreader

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    Cover Work

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    About the Author

    Brandon Corbin is an accomplished web enthusiast with a background in advertising, and has used his knowledge of design and marketing to create websites for many of the Fortune 500. For more than a decade, he has applied his passions to several industries—including radio, real estate, pharmaceuticals, recruiting, and e-Commerce—with an obsessive attention to creating a smooth user experience.

    I would like to thank my wonderful wife Emily and my awesome children—Maddy and Ethan, all of whom put up with my absence during the writing of this book. You guys mean the world to me.

    About the Reviewer

    M. Liz Allyn has been interested in computers since her high school days, and minored in Computer Science and Math while finishing her BS in Chemistry. After earning a Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry, she worked as a development scientist, group leader, and senior quality assurance officer. These real jobs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries taught her that she hated cubicles.

    To Liz, the fun part was teaching the technicians and working in the laboratories with the instrumentation. Her most interesting lab project was programming a robot in a pharmaceutical lab to prepare samples for chemical analysis. Sample preparation time was reduced by 75 percent, which allowed the technicians to attend to other tasks.

    In between teaching assignments Liz taught herself html, became a certified webmaster, and learned to use PHP and MySQL in developing websites. She has been blogging with WordPress for four years now.

    Among a few websites that she keeps active Liz likes to share tips about WordPress and the underlying HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL with her readers at computeraxe.com. When she’s not helping clients deal with their website or database issues, Liz enjoys writing about plants and sharing pictures of nature at her WordPress blog, wildeherb.com.

    Preface

    WordPress has thousands of plugins available—most of them don't work as advertised, are out dated, or simply don't work. Wordpress Top Plugins takes you through the process of finding the very best plugins to build a powerful and engaging website or blog.

    With access to over 10,000 plugins, finding the ones that actually work as advertised is becoming exceedingly difficult and time consuming. Wordpress Top Plugins removes this time-consuming act by delivering only the best free plugins available on WordPress today.

    Each chapter tackles common objectives most websites need to achieve, such as: building a community, sharing content, working with multiple authors, and securing your website. With exact search terms, screenshots, and complexity levels, you'll find exactly what you need to quickly install and setup each of the plugins that fits your technical skills.

    What this book covers

    Chapter 1, Plugin Basics covers the basics in finding, choosing, and installing plugins on your WordPress powered blog.

    Chapter 2, Generating Content will expose the top plugins for dynamically creating content on your blog.

    Chapter 3, Sharing Content will help you turn your blog in to a content sharing machine by making it easy for your readers and yourself to promote your blogs content across the entire social web.

    Chapter 4, Style and Function covers the best WordPress plugins for increasing your blog's usability, beauty, and fun.

    Chapter 5, Building a Community with BuddyPress shows you, step by step, how to turn your blog into a full blown social network.

    Chapter 6, Generate Revenue will show you the best plugins for creating on-going automated revenue for your website.

    Chapter 7, Working with Multiple Authors highlights the best plugins for websites with multiple writers.

    Chapter 8, Security and Maintenance covers plugins that help maintain a healthy and secure WordPress blog.

    Chapter 9, Power Admin covers the plugins that will turn you in to a WordPress administrating juggernaut.

    Chapter 10, Time for Action covers some of the best external resources for continuing your WordPress education.

    What you need for this book

    WordPress 2.8 or higher.

    Who this book is for

    Regardless if this is your first-time working with WordPress, or you're a seasoned WordPress coding ninja—WordPress Top Plugins will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and reader base, and generating real advertising revenue.

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