Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read - 2011

Publisher: Pe ach pit Pre ss; 2 edition 2011 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 032174957X | PDF | 12 MB

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Having your own blog isn it just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to have one. But to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you ve set it up.

In Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you ll learn how to:

* Install and get your WordPress site running.
* Set up your site to ensure it can easily grow with you and your readers.
* Be the master of user accounts.
* Manage your site with the WordPress Dashboard and extend its capabilities with plug-ins.
* Make the most of images.
* Work with pages, templates, and links and—of course—publish your posts.
* Use custom post types and taxonomies to bend WordPress to your will.
* Deal with comments—if you even want readers commenting at all.
* Find a theme and make it your own.