Preface
WordPress has thousands of plugins available—most of them don't work as advertised, are out dated, or simply don't work. Wordpress Top Plugins takes you through the process of finding the very best plugins to build a powerful and engaging website or blog.
With access to over 10,000 plugins, finding the ones that actually work as advertised is becoming exceedingly difficult and time consuming. Wordpress Top Plugins removes this time-consuming act by delivering only the best free plugins available on WordPress today.
Each chapter tackles common objectives most websites need to achieve, such as: building a community, sharing content, working with multiple authors, and securing your website. With exact search terms, screenshots, and complexity levels, you'll find exactly what you need to quickly install and setup each of the plugins that fits your technical skills.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Plugin Basics covers the basics in finding, choosing, and installing plugins on your WordPress powered blog.
Chapter 2, Generating Content will expose the top plugins for dynamically creating content on your blog.
Chapter 3, Sharing Content will help you turn your blog in to a content sharing machine by making it easy for your readers and yourself to promote your blogs content across the entire social web.
Chapter 4, Style and Function covers the best WordPress plugins for increasing your blog's usability, beauty, and fun.
Chapter 5, Building a Community with BuddyPress shows you, step by step, how to turn your blog into a full blown social network.
Chapter 6, Generate Revenue will show you the best plugins for creating on-going automated revenue for your website.
Chapter 7, Working with Multiple Authors highlights the best plugins for websites with multiple writers.
Chapter 8, Security and Maintenance covers plugins that help maintain a healthy and secure WordPress blog.
Chapter 9, Power Admin covers the plugins that will turn you in to a WordPress administrating juggernaut.
Chapter 10, Time for Action covers some of the best external resources for continuing your WordPress education.
What you need for this book
WordPress 2.8 or higher.
Who this book is for
Regardless if this is your first-time working with WordPress, or you're a seasoned WordPress coding ninja—WordPress Top Plugins will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, building communities and reader base, and generating real advertising revenue.
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