Head First WordPress: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Creating Your Own Custom WordPress Blog (Paperback)
Book Description
A Brain-Friendly Guide to Creating Your Own Custom WordPress Blog
Whether you’re promoting your business or writing about your travel adventures, Head First WordPress will teach you not only how to make your blog look unique and attention-grabbing, but also how to take advantage of WordPress platform’s more complex features to make your website work well, too. You’ll learn how to move beyond the standard WordPress look and feel by customizing your blog with your own URL, templates, plugin functionality, and more. As you learn, you’ll be working with real WordPress files: The book’s website provides pre-fab WordPress themes to download and work with as you follow along with the text. Get your site up and running by setting up a MySQL database and creating configuration files Work with the Wordpress platform to create posts and pages, learn the difference between tags and categories, edit content, moderate comments, and manage spa (more…)
WordPress for Business Bloggers: Promote and grow your WordPress blog with advanced plug-ins, analytics, advertising, and SEO (Paperback)
In Detail Blogging has been part of the web landscape for over a decade and has matured into a ubiquitous mode of live communication. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful weapon in their digital arsenal. Done well, blogging can bring myriad benefits to businesses of any size. Done badly, it can cause more harm than good. Central to the success of any business blog is a thorough understanding of the technology. This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you to create an engaging, effective, and well polished business blog. WordPress allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with many outstanding features. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users, who have created a large and diverse collection of plug-ins. It has various features that can help business bloggers to boost their business strategy. This book will tak (more…)
Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read (Paperback)
Having your own blog isn’t just for the nerdy anymore. Today, it seems everyone—from multinational corporations to a neighbor up the street—has a blog. They all have one, in part, because the folks at WordPress make it easy to get one. but to actually build a good blog—to create a blog people want to read—takes thought, planning, and some effort. From picking a theme and using tags to choosing widgets and building a community, creating your blog really starts after you set it up. In this book by blogger extraordinaire Scott McNulty, you learn how to:Install and get your WordPress blog running.Set up your site to ensure it can easily grow with you and your readers.Be the master of user accounts.Manage your site with the WordPress Dashboard and extend its capabilities with plug-ins.Make the most of images.Work with pages, templates, and links and—of course—publish your posts.Deal with comments—if you even want readers commenting at all.Find a theme—or bui (more…)
Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog (Smashing Magazine Book Series) (Paperback)
GO BEYOND THE BLOG Smashing WordPress shows you how to utilize the power of the WordPress platform, and provides a creative spark to help you build WordPress-powered sites that go beyond the obvious. You will learn the core concepts used to build just about anything in WordPress, resulting in fast deployments and greater design flexibility. Inside, WordPress expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond the blog and shows you how WordPress can serve as a CMS, a photo gallery, an e-commerce site, and more. YOU WILL LEARN: THE ANATOMY OF A WP INSTALL AND HOW WORDPRESS ACTUALLY WORKS HOW TO BUILD BEAUTIFUL WORDPRESS THEMES – INCLUDING CHILD THEMES HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM LOGIN FORMS AND ADMIN THEMES HOW TO USE THE LOOP TO CONTROL CONTENT, AND EVEN USE ALTERNATIVES TO THE LOOP HOW TO INTEGRATE THEME OPTIONS HOW TO BUILD PLUGINS – INCLUDING WIDGET FUNCTIONALITY HOW TO BUILD YOUR WORDPRESS PROJECTS FOR SEO INTEGRATE (more…)
First Entry
Been debating on what my first entry would be. I have had a love hate relationship with this blog. It has been redone-refurbished-renovated-remade-revised-rewhathaveyou many times over since I first registered the domain in 2004. I go pretty strong on the first few weeks or months and then life happens and then….
So why start it again now? How is it going to be different from the other nth versions?
One key aspect of this blog is that it actually now has a true focus. A mission. When I first started out the blog, it was more of nothing but a sounding board, stuff that comes into my head and feel like mentioning. Stuff that I run into throughout the course of the day… Stuff that I just want to mention, but really don’t want to dwell too much into… Twitter and Facebook status updates kinda handled that situation, hence the demise of the last version…
This time around, this blog came out of an idea. Something my wife and I are working on. It actually has a true purpose. A mission.
So what is the mission of this blog?
To provide small to medium size business insights and resources on three key areas: Information Systems Management and Security, Electronic Business (eBusiness) and Internet Marketing Strategies
These are three subject matters that I have honed (and still learning) in the past 11 years or so. Hopefully it will provide readers some useful information that they can implement in their day-to-day business operations.
This blog will not be all business, however. From time to time, I may have to segue on non-related/random topics, because after all life is not just about business, life simply happens.
Happy reading folks.
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- CVE-2012-1034 (episerver_cms) February 7, 2012Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the admin interface in EPiServer CMS through 6R2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-5076 (hdwiki) February 6, 2012SQL injection vulnerability in model/comment.class.php in HDWiki 5.0, 5.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the PATH_INFO to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1021 (4images) February 6, 2012Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/categories.php in 4images 1.7.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the cat_parent_id parameter in an addcat action. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1031 (episerver_cms) February 6, 2012Unspecified vulnerability in EPiServer CMS 5 and 6 through 6R2, in certain configurations using Forms Authentication, allows remote authenticated users to obtain WebAdmins access by leveraging Edit Mode privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3416 and CVE-2011-3417. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1008 (officesip_server) February 6, 2012OfficeSIP Server 3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted To header in a SIP INVITE message. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-0992 (openemr) February 6, 2012interface/fax/fax_dispatch.php in OpenEMR 4.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the file parameter. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1004 (foswiki) February 6, 2012Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in UI/Register.pm in Foswiki before 1.1.5 allow remote authenticated users with CHANGE privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) text, (2) FirstName, (3) LastName, (4) OrganisationName, (5) OrganisationUrl, (6) Profession, (7) Country, (8) State, (9) Address, (10) Location, (11) Telephon […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1019 (xwiki_enterprise) February 6, 2012Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in XWiki Enterprise 3.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) XWiki.XWikiComments_comment parameter to xwiki/bin/commentadd/Main/WebHome, (2) XWiki.XWikiUsers_0_company parameter when editing a user profile, or (3) projectVersion parameter to xwiki/bin/view/DownloadCode/D […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1002 (openconf) February 6, 2012Unspecified vulnerability in OpenConf 4.x before 4.12 has unknown impact and attack vectors. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1029 (tube_ace) February 6, 2012SQL injection vulnerability in mobile/search/index.php in Tube Ace (Adult PHP Tube Script) 1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the q parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1034 (episerver_cms) February 7, 2012