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WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition

You're reading from   WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition Nothing has simplified website production quite as effectively as WordPress, and this book makes it easier still to build a fully featured site of your own. Packed with screenshots and clear instructions, it covers everything you need for success.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162407
Length 404 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing WordPress 2. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Blog Content 4. Pages, Menus, Media Library, and More 5. Plugins and Widgets 6. Choosing and Installing Themes 7. Developing Your Own Theme 8. Feeds, Podcasting, and Offline Blogging 9. Developing Plugins and Widgets 10. Community Blogging 11. Creating a Non-blog Website Part One – The Basics 12. Creating a Non-blog Website Part Two – Community Websites and Custom Content Elements Index

The must-have pack of plugins


Even though there are over 27,000 plugins available in the official directory, you surely don't need all of them on your WordPress site. There is a small set that we might call the "must-have pack". And obviously my list of must-have plugins can be different from the next guy's, so please treat the following information more as guidance rather than as a written-in-stone necessity. That being said, I am honest here, and despite the fact that some of my blogs feature more than 25 plugins working at the same time, the essential must-have list consists of only seven plugins. All these handle a specific task geared towards making a WordPress site better and more functional.

Backing up

Let's start with this one as we've already gone through the installation process of one of the top backing up plugins—Online Backup for WordPress. Now, backing up is probably the most important task for any website owner, and I'm saying this in all seriousness. For instance, can you imagine...

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