WordPress® For Dummies®

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1. Table of Contents
   1. Cover
   2. Foreword
   3. Introduction
      1. About This Book
      2. Foolish Assumptions
      3. Icons Used in This Book
      4. Beyond the Book
      5. Where to Go from Here
   4. Part 1: Introducing WordPress
      1. Chapter 1: What WordPress Can Do for You
         1. Discovering the Benefits of WordPress
         2. Choosing a WordPress Platform
      2. Chapter 2: WordPress Basics
         1. Shining the Spotlight on WordPress
         2. Dipping Into WordPress Technologies
         3. Using WordPress as a Content Management System
         4. Moving On to the Business of Publishing
   5. Part 2: Setting Up WordPress
      1. Chapter 3: Setting Up Blogging Base Camp
         1. Establishing Your Domain
         2. Finding a Home for Your Website
         3. Understanding Secure File Transfer Concepts
         4. Installing WordPress
         5. Exploring Preinstalled WordPress
      2. Chapter 4: Understanding the WordPress.org Dashboard
         1. Logging In to the Dashboard
         2. Navigating the Dashboard
         3. Arranging the Dashboard to Your Tastes
         4. Finding Inline Documentation and Help
         5. Setting Options in the Dashboard
         6. Configuring the Settings
         7. Creating Your Personal Profile
         8. Setting Your Site’s Format
      3. Chapter 5: Establishing Your Publishing Routine
         1. Staying on Topic with Categories
         2. Examining a Post’s Address: Permalinks
         3. Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options
         4. Writing Your First Entry
         5. Look Who’s Talking on Your Site
   6. Part 3: Flexing and Extending WordPress
      1. Chapter 6: Media Management: Images, Audio, and Video
         1. Inserting Images into Your Content
         2. Inserting Video Files into Your Posts
         3. Inserting Audio Files into Your Posts
         4. Keeping Media Files Organized
      2. Chapter 7: Making the Most of WordPress Plugins
         1. Finding Out What Plugins Are
         2. Exploring the Plugins Page
         3. Identifying Core Plugins
         4. Using Plugins: Just the Basics
         5. Installing Plugins Manually
         6. Uploading and Activating Plugins
         7. Setting Plugin Options
         8. Uninstalling Plugins
         9. Understanding the Open-Source Environment
         10. Finding Plugins Outside the Plugins Page on the WordPress.org Website
         11. Comparing Free and Commercial Plugins
      3. Chapter 8: Finding and Installing WordPress Themes
         1. Getting Started with Free Themes
         2. Installing a Theme
         3. Exploring Premium Theme Options
         4. Examining the Default Theme: Twenty Seventeen
         5. Enhancing Your Theme with Widgets
   7. Part 4: Customizing WordPress
      1. Chapter 9: Understanding Themes and Templates
         1. Using WordPress Themes: The Basics
         2. Contemplating the Structure of a WordPress Website
         3. Examining the Anatomy of a Template Tag
         4. Getting Familiar with the Four Main Templates
         5. Putting a Theme Together
         6. Customizing Your Posts with Template Tags
         7. Using Tags with Parameters for Sidebars
      2. Chapter 10: Tweaking WordPress Themes
         1. Styling with CSS: The Basics
         2. Changing the Background Graphics with CSS
         3. Using Your Own Header Image
         4. Customizing Colors in Twenty Seventeen
         5. Creating Custom Navigation Menus
         6. Changing Font Family, Color, and Size
         7. Understanding Basic HTML Techniques
      3. Chapter 11: Understanding Parent and Child Themes
         1. Customizing Theme Style with Child Themes
         2. Modifying Theme Structure with Child Themes
         3. Preparing a Parent Theme
      4. Chapter 12: WordPress As a Content Management System
         1. Creating Different Page Views Using WordPress Templates
         2. Creating a Template for Each Post Category
         3. Using Sidebar Templates
         4. Creating Custom Styles for Sticky, Category, and Tag Posts
         5. Working with Custom Post Types
         6. Adding Support for Post Formats
         7. Adding Support for Post Thumbnails
         8. Exploring the Custom Fields Interface
         9. Optimizing Your WordPress Site
      5. Chapter 13: Hosting Multiple Sites with WordPress
         1. Deciding When to Use the Multisite Feature
         2. Understanding the Difference between Sites and Blogs
         3. Considering Web-Hosting Services
         4. Enabling the WordPress Network Feature
         5. Installing the Network on Your Site
         6. Exploring the Network Admin Dashboard Menu
         7. Managing Your Network
         8. Stopping Spam Signups and Splogs
      6. Chapter 14: Upgrading, Backing Up, and Migrating
         1. Getting Notified of an Available Upgrade
         2. Backing Up Your Database
         3. Upgrading WordPress Automatically
         4. Upgrading WordPress Manually
         5. Migrating Your Existing Site to WordPress
         6. Importing from WordPress
         7. Moving Your Website to a Different Host
   8. Part 5: The Part of Tens
      1. Chapter 15: Ten Popular WordPress Plugins
         1. AppPresser
         2. Jetpack
         3. Subscribe to Comments
         4. Facebook
         5. All in One SEO Pack
         6. BackupBuddy
         7. WP Super Cache
         8. WooCommerce
         9. Google XML Sitemaps
         10. Sucuri Security
      2. Chapter 16: Ten Free WordPress Themes
         1. Hybrid Core
         2. Hestia
         3. Responsive
         4. P2
         5. Annotum Base
         6. Blackbird
         7. iTheme2
         8. Esquire
         9. Nisarg
         10. Optics
   9. About the Author
   10. Connect with Dummies
   11. End User License Agreement

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