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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

WP Admin conventions


In the WP Admin, you have the ability to manage a number of different types of content and content sorting types (objects), including posts, categories, pages, links, media uploads, and more. WordPress uses a similar format for various screens. Let's explore them in this section.

Lists of items

For every object in WordPress you might want to manage, there will be a page listing them. For example, let's have a look at what a list of posts might look like:

As you can see, the name of the object is at the top, and the list of items has columns. Let's take a look at the important elements:

  • Each item in the list shows its Title. You can always click on an item title to edit it.

  • If you hover your mouse over a specific row, as I hovered over Hello world! in the preceding screenshot, you will see four additional links. The first three links are always the same (Edit, Quick Edit, and Trash), while the fourth one varies between View and Preview, depending on whether we're dealing...

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