WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide | by Lesley A. Harrison | 2009 | ISBN: 9781847196545. WordPress Site Optimization. Ways to Monetize Your Site. Making Your Own Social Blog Network. Techniques for Increasing Traffic to Your Blog. Twitter and Social Bookmarking. Social Networking with BuddyPress.
WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide
by Lesley A. Harrison
2009 (268 pages)
ISBN:9781847196545
Using a real, working blog network as an example, this book takes you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network so you can add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.
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WordPress MU 2.8—Beginner’s Guide
Preface
Overview
What This Book Covers
Who This Book is For
Conventions
Reader Feedback
Customer Support
Chapter 1 – Introducing WordPress MU
Overview
What is WordPress MU
Making Your Own Social Blog Network
What is BuddyPress
What is bbPress
Making and Hosting My Site
Building Our Example Site: The SlayerCafe
Planning Your Site
Summary
Chapter 2 – Installing WordPress MU
Overview
Tools You Will Need
Setting Up a Local Web Server
Time for Action — Getting Your Server Set Up
Time for Action — Creating a Database for WordPress MU
Time for Action — Subdomains for WordPress MU
Preparing Your Live Server
Time for Action — Working with cPanel
Time for Action — Subdomains under WHM
Installing WordPress MU
Time for Action — Getting WordPress MU Up and Running
Time for Action — Changing the Admin Password
Time for Action — Enabling Registrations
Time for Action — Creating a New User
Summary
Chapter 3 – Customizing the Appearance of Your Site
Overview
Picking Out a Theme
Installing Your New Theme
Time for Action — Installing a New Theme
Time for Action — Editing Your Theme
Time for Action — Changing the Default Blog Theme
Customizing Your Home Page
Time for Action — Making a Sign-Up Button
Time for Action — Featured Posts
Time for Action — Simple Stats
Displaying Recent Posts and Comments
Time for Action — Displaying the Most Active Blogs
Time for Action — Tweaking the Recent Post Display Options
Time for Action — Sitewide Recent Comments
Time for Action — Our Improved Home Page
Other Important Points
Summary
Chapter 4 – Letting Users Manage Their Blogs
Overview
User Management Basics
Customization Options for Your Users
Time for Action — Offering a Selection of Themes
Time for Action — Userthemes Revisited
Time for Action — Setting User Levels and Changing the User’s Admin Panel
Time for Action — Hiding the Dashboard
Time for Action — Domain Mapping
A Few Things to Consider
Summary
Chapter 5 – Protecting Your Site
Overview
Signing Up for reCAPTCHA
Stopping Spam with reCAPTCHA and Bad Behavior
Time for Action — Setting Up reCAPTCHA
Time for Action — Setting Up Bad Behavior
Time for Action — Managing Your Users’ Plugins
Blocking Bad Guys with .htaccess
Time for Action — .htaccess Settings to Stop Bad Guys
Other Useful Plugins
Time for Action — Automatic Backups
Summary
Chapter 6 – Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
Overview
Improved Tagging
Time for Action — Tagging Blog Posts
Time for Action — Sitewide Tag Clouds
Using Pings
Time for Action — Pings
Trackbacks
Offering RSS Feeds
Time for Action — Offering RSS Subscription Options
Time for Action — Let’s Burn Some Feeds
Twitter and Social Bookmarking
Time for Action — Social Bookmarking Links
More About Traffic Building
Summary
Chapter 7 – Sticky Features for your Blog Network
Overview
What Do People Mean by “Sticky”?
Letting Readers and Authors Communicate
Time for Action — Setting Up Contact Forms
Time for Action — IntenseDebate Comments
Time for Action — Gravatars in WordPress MU
Time for Action — Creating a Welcome Message
Summary
Chapter 8 – Adding Forums with bbPress
Overview
Installing bbPress
Time for Action — Installing bbPress
One Login for Both the Forum and the Blog
Time for Action — User DB Integration with WordPress MU
Time for Action — Blog and Forum Registrations
Time for Action — Styling Your Forum
Managing Your Forum
Time for Action — Managing Your Forum
Time for Action — Setting User Permissions
Time for Action — Installing Plugins
Summary
Chapter 9 – Social Networking with BuddyPress
Overview
BuddyPress
Setting Up BuddyPress
Time for Action — Installing the BuddyPress Suite
Time for Action — Installing New Themes
Time for Action — Facebook Connect
Time for Action — Speeding Up BuddyPress
The Future of BuddyPress
Summary
Chapter 10 – Monetizing Your Site
Overview
Ways to Monetize Your Site
Managing Ads on WordPress MU
Time for Action — Ad Management with Advertising Manager
Time for Action — Revenue Sharing
Time for Action — Premium Memberships
Things to Remember When Monetizing Your Site
Summary
Chapter 11 – Site Optimization
Overview
Choosing to Optimize Your Site
Speed Up Your Site with Caching
Time for Action — Setting Up Object Cache
More Ways to Speed Up Your Site—Optimizing Themes
Time for Action — Spreading the Load
Time for Action — Optimizing Your Site through phpMyAdmin
Troubleshooting Slow Loading Sites
Server Side Optimizations
Summary
Chapter 12 – Troubleshooting and Maintaining your Site
Overview
Why Worry About Upgrades
Performing a Safe Upgrade
Time for Action — Performing the Upgrade
Time for Action — Restoring a Backup
Getting Help Online
Summary
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