WordPress Top Plugins 9781849511414, 1849511411, 978-1-849511-40-7

Time flies when you're having fun. This is the right way to describe this WordPress Top Plugins book by Brandon Cor

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WordPress Top Plugins
9781849511414, 1849511411, 978-1-849511-40-7

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Brandon

Table of contents :
Content: WordPress Top Plugins
WordPress Top Plugins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Plugin Basics
Safety first
Automatic install versus manual install
Automatic plugin installation
Plugin detail
Downloading, unpacking, installing
Activating the plugin
Connection Information required
Manual installation
Manually installing a plugin with a Mac
Transferring a plugin
Manually installing a plugin on Windows. Creating a bookmark with WinSCP
Transferring a plugin to your blog
Activating your plugin
Finding a plugin's settings
How plugins work
Managing plugins
Keeping your plugins up-to-date
Learn by tinkering
WordPress plugin API
PHP references
CSS
JavaScript
Troubleshooting plugins
Editing plugins
Summary
2. Generating Content
GD Star Rating
Fixing the default ratings
Turning off Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down on posts
Turning off Star Ratings on comments
Better Tag Cloud
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
My Page Order
Get Recent Comments
Viper's Video Quicktags
WP Greet Box. NextGen GallerySetting up your first gallery
Adding your gallery to a post or a page
Zemanta
CForms II
CForms administration
Modifying the default form
Adding your form to a page, post, or widget
Advanced CForms customizations
File upload settings
Messages, text, and button label
Core Form Admin / e-mail options
Admin e-mail message options
Auto confirmation
Multi-part / multi-page forms
Tell-A-Friend form support
WP comment feature
Third-party read-notification support
MapPress-Google maps
Adding a map to a post or page
WP-O-Matic
Creating your first campaign. Adding feedsCategories
Understanding WP-O-Matic's options
Search unleashed
Setting up your search index
Creating your first index
WP Web Scrapper
Copyright warning
Adding a scrapping
Summary
3. Sharing Content
TweetMeme
Setting up TweetMeme
Wordbook
WP Download Manager
Adding a new download
Inserting a download into a post
Twiogle Twitter Commenter
ShareThis
Setting up ShareThis
Wibiya Bar --
Beta
Installing the Wibiya bar
WP Facebook Connect
Creating an app ID for your blog
Adding the connect button to your comments
Twitter Friendly Links
Feedburner Feedsmith. Burning your feedCreate a Google account
Verify your blog's feed URL
Burn your feed
Name your feed
Configuring WP-Feedburner
SendIt
SendIt overview
Creating your first newsletter
Adding subscribers
Automatic import
SendIt Widget
Sending a mail
Subscribe-Remind
Sociable
Understanding social options
Disabling sprite usage for images
Disabling alpha mask on the share toolbar
Tagline
Position
Use Text Links
Image Directory
Use Thisbox/iFrame on links
Open in New Window
Awe.sm
Summary
4. Style and Function
About Me Widget
Setting up your About Me Widget.