WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition

The easy, self-paced guide to the powerful WordPress platform WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive, unique book-and-video package that focuses on the practical, everyday tasks you will face when creating and maintaining WordPress websites.

This easy-to-use, friendly guide will show you how to create and edit pages, integrate your site with social media, keep your site secure, make content more search engine friendly to help drive website traffic, troubleshoot the most common WordPress issues, and much more.

This updated edition of WordPress 24-Hour Trainer covers the latest features of WordPress 4.0 and 4.1 in an easy-to-use format:

• Fully-illustrated guides to key tasks you’ll need to perform with WordPress.
• At the end of each lesson a list of related plugins you can install to make WordPress an even more powerful tool.
• Step-by-step guides at the end of lessons to help you practice what you just learned.
• Videos that show you first hand some of the concepts in each lesson.

WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition is your perfect real-world guide to fully leveraging this powerful platform.

Table of Contents

Section I: Before You Start
Lesson 1: Thinking Like WordPress
Lesson 2: Planning Your Site for WordPress

Section II: Firing Up WordPress
Lesson 3: Installing WordPress
Lesson 4: Admin Area Overview
Lesson 5: Basic Admin Settings

Section III: Working with Written Content
Lesson 6: Adding a New Post: An Overview
Lesson 7: Working with Text in the Content Editor
Lesson 8: Basic Post Screen Functions
Lesson 9: Advanced Post Functions
Lesson 10: Adding a New Page

Section IV: Working with Media Content
Lesson 11: The Basics of Adding Media Files
Lesson 12: The Media Uploader Window
Lesson 13: Working with Images in the Content Editor
Lesson 14: Using the WordPress Image Editor
Lesson 15: Working with WordPress Image Galleries
Lesson 16: Adding Video and Audio
Lesson 17: Adding Documents

Section V: Managing Your Content
Lesson 18: Managing Posts and Pages
Lesson 19: Managing Media Files
Lesson 20: Managing Post Categories and Tags
Lesson 21: Managing Widgets and Menus

Section VI: Making Your Site Social
Lesson 22: Connecting To Social Media
Lesson 23: Managing Comments
Lesson 24: Bringing in Content from Other Sites
Lesson 25: Connecting by E-mail
Lesson 26: Managing Multiple Site Users

Section VII: Choosing and Customizing Themes
Lesson 27: Overview of WordPress Themes
Lesson 28: Theme Installation and Basic Customization
Lesson 29: Advanced Design Customization

Section VIII: Becoming Search Engine Friendly
Lesson 30: Optimizing Your Content
Lesson 31: Optimizing Behind the Scenes

Section IX: Maintenance and Security
Lesson 32: Keeping Up to Date
Lesson 33: Keeping Backups
Lesson 34: Keeping Your Site Secure

Section X: Adding Functionality Using Plugins
Lesson 35: Installing and Activating Plugins
Lesson 36: More Plugin Suggestions

Section XI: References
Appendix: Troubleshooting WordPress