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WordPress Power Guide

Go Beyond The Basics and Make Your WordPress Site Rock

Are you already using WordPress on your website or blog? Ready to crank it up a notch and reap the maximum benefit from your site?
Then the WordPress Power Guide is for you.

Traffic Generation

Whether your goal is to make money from your site or just share your views with the world, you need traffic. Did you know there are plugins that helps your site rank higher with the search engines? Just read the WordPress Power Guide to discover how to set up your site so it’s easy for visitors (and you!) to use and achieves the best SE ranking.

Importance of Plugins and Themes

Have you ever visited a site that drew you in immediately? Chances are you were smitten because of a plugin, image, or customized theme. If your blog feels a bit blah, jazz it up! WordPress Power Guide walks you through installing images and even lists the best plugins and themes to install and customize so you can make your blog your own.

Keep Them Coming Back For More

Open the door to repeat visitors with a WP tune-up. Polls and comment sections encourage participation and keep visitors glued to your site. . .but they’re an invitation for spammers. The WordPress Power Guide reveals how to cut down on spam while still allowing visitors to participate and relate to you so they keep coming back for more.
Small Investment, Big Return

If you want to make money from your blog, you can’t afford not knowing the few simple tweaks that will really pay off. The good news? The secrets to optimize every piece of your blog are revealed in WordPress Power Guide. You won’t find a more comprehensive manual anywhere so grab your copy now. You will be amazed at the results.

Blog Your Way to Success

Some of the Topics that are inside

* How to Attract Readers with Your Writing
* Find The Right Topics that Work for You
* Easy Ways to Give Your Blog Power
* How to Make Attractive Blogs
* Easy Changes that Makes Big Improvements
* SEO Made Easy
* Power Plugins that Work for You
* How to Make Your Readers Want to Comment
* Stop Spam in its Tracks without losing Commenters
* Get Traffic to Your Blog for Free
* Glue Your Readers to Your Blog Posts
* How to Earn Cash with Your Blog
* Become an Expert Now
* Where to Get Cheap Help

An in-depth look at the internals of the WordPress system. As the most popular blogging and content management platform available today, WordPress is a powerful tool. This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional aspects of WordPress as well as plug-in and theme development.

What is covered in this book?

• WordPress as a Content Management System
• Hosting Options
• Installing WordPress Files
• Database Configuration
• Dashboard Widgets
• Customizing the Dashboard
• Creating and Managing Content
• Categorizing Your Content
• Working with Media
• Comments and Discussion
• Working with Users
• Managing, Adding, Upgrading, and Using the Theme Editor
• Working with Widgets
• Adding and Managing New Plugins
• Configuring WordPress
• Exploring the Code
• Configuring Key Files
• wp-config.php file
• Advanced wp-config Options
• What's in the Core?
• WordPress Codex and Resources
• Understanding and customizing the Loop
• Building A Custom Query
• Complex Database Operations
• Dealing With Errors
• Direct Database Manipulation
• Building Your Own Taxonomies
• Plugin Packaging
• Create a Dashboard Widget
• Creating a Plugin Example
• Publish to the Plugin Directory
• Installing a Theme
• Creating Your Own Theme
• How and When to Use Custom Page Templates
• How to Use Custom Page Templates
• Pushing Content from WordPress to Other Sites
• Usability and Usability Testing
• Getting Your Site Found
• How Web Standards Get Your Data Discovered
• Load Balancing Your WordPress Site
• Securing Your WordPress Site
• Using WordPress in the Enterprise
• Is WordPress Right for Your Enterprise?
• and much more!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

In Detail

This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme's template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.

Whether you're working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site's design and branding.

What you will learn from this book?

• Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
• Create detailed designs and code them up
• Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
• Debug and validate your theme using W3C's XHTML and CSS validation tools
• Customize and tweak your theme's layout
• Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
• Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
• Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
• Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
• Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0's template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

Approach

Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it's quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it.

The second is "Unique and Beautiful". Occasionally, the site's theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers. This book is going to take you through the Unique and Beautiful route with the idea that once you know how to create a theme from scratch, you'll be more apt at understanding what to look for in other WordPress themes.

Who this book is written for?

This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors.

Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you'll be walked through the clear, step-by-step instructions, but familiarity with a broad range of web development skills and WordPress know-how will allow you to gain maximum benefit from this book.

The ultimate guide to WordPress Themes - one of the hottest topics on the web today

• WordPress is so much more than a blogging platform, and Smashing WordPress Themes teaches readers how to make it look any way they like - from a corporate site, to a photography gallery and more
• WordPress is one of the hottest tools on the web today and is used by sites including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, flickr, CNN, NASA and of course Smashing Magazine
• Beautiful full colour throughout - web designers expect nothing less
• Smashing Magazine will fully support this book by by promoting it through their website and on twitter feeds

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From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines.

It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy.  An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.

For the West, Russia is a basket case.  But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order.  As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his striking voice rings out over the airwaves offering the roiling masses hope at last--not only for law, order, and prosperity, but for restoring the lost greatness of their land.

Who is this man with the golden tongue who is so quickly becoming the promise of a Russia reborn?  A document stolen from party headquarters and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those who remember the past, for this Black Manifesto is pure Mein Kampf in a country with frightening parallels to the Germany of the Weimar Republic.

Officially the West can do nothing, but in secret a group of elder statesmen sends the only person who can expose the truth about Komarov into the heart of the inferno.  Jason Monk, ex-CIA and "the best damn agent-runner we ever had," had sworn he would never return to Moscow, but one name changes his mind.  Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB officer who tortured and murdered four of Monk's agents after they had been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is now Komarov's head of security.

Monk has a dual mission: to stop Komarov, whatever it takes, and to prepare the way for an icon worthy of the Russian people.  But he has a personal mission as well: to settle the final score with Grishin.  To do this he must stay alive--and the forces allied against him are ruthless, the time frighteningly short....

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When the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression plunges America into despair, a previously little-known but charmingly charismatic politician rides into the White House on a mantra of Expectation and Transformation.
What will be the ultimate price to be paid for massive government bail-out programs and an ever increasing level of government intrusion into American lives?
As biblical prophecy unfolds, nationally-syndicated radio host and political commentator Tom Beckett senses that all is not as it seems; that the story behind the story is much more complex than most Americans imagine.
But even he is not prepared for the sinister forces he encounters in the world of ICON. His life, his family, his nation, and the world stand on the brink of the abyss.

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney’s Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs’s dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers.