WordPress In Depth (Paperback)
Advice and techniques that you need to get the job done. Looking for ways to streamline your work so you can focus on maximizing your time? In Depth provides specific, tested, and proven solutions to the problems you run into every day–things other books ignore or oversimplify. This is the one book that you can rely on to answer the questions you have now and will have in the future. In Depth offers Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions Breakthrough techniques and shortcuts that are unavailable elsewhere Practical, real-world examples with nothing glossed over or left out Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can’t fix on your own Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style Quick information via sidebars, tips, reminders, notes, and warnings In Depth is the only tool you need to get more done in less time! Includes coverage on blog creation, widgets, plug-ins, themes, SEO, the Wo (more…)
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 Entrepreneur: How To Setup, Customize & Use A Wordpress Website (Volume 1) (Paperback)
This book focuses on the nuts and bolts of the initial setup of your WordPress website. It is a clear and comprehensive approach with color screen shots of the entire setup process. Using WordPress version 2.6, you will learn how to install and use WordPress, add themes, plugins, import and export files and how to uninstall WordPress. This book includes full instructions on how to choose a WordPress template and create your own website quickly and easily.
About the Author
John Cook is a computer science/engineering student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He started his own computer business at the age of fifteen. John has developed websites for businesses, non-profit organizations and his own business.
WordPress Plugin Development (Beginner’s Guide) (Paperback)
Build powerful, interactive plug-ins for your blog and to share online Everything you need to create and distribute your own plug-ins following WordPress coding standards Walk through the development of six complete, feature-rich, real-world plug-ins that are being used by thousands of WP users Written by Vladimir Prelovac, WordPress expert and developer of WordPress plug-ins such as Smart YouTube and Plugin Central Part of Packt’s Beginners Guide series: expect step-by-step instructions with an emphasis on experimentation and tweaking codeIn Detail If you can write WordPress plug-ins, you can make WordPress do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Widgets, plug-ins that alter your (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…)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook (Paperback)
100 simple but incredibly useful recipes to take control of your WordPress blog layout, themes, widgets, plug-ins, security, and SEO Take your WordPress blog to the next level with solutions to common WordPress problems that make your blog better, smarter, faster, and more secureEnhance your SEO and make more money online by applying simple hacksFully tested and compatible with WordPress 2.7Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possibleIn Detail About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay.The author’s experience (more…)
WordPress 2.8 Theme Design (Paperback)
Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it’s quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it. The second is “Unique and Beautiful”. Occasionally, the site’s theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers. This book is going to take you through the Unique and Beautiful route with the idea that once you know how to create a theme from scratch, you’ll be more apt at understanding what to look for in other WordPress themes. This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors. Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you’ll find clear, s (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…)
WordPress Theme Design: A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes (Paperback)
In Detail This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins. Whether you’re working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site’s design and branding. What you will learn from (more…)
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- From the National Vulnerability Database
- CVE-2011-3958 (chrome) February 7, 2012Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 does not properly perform casts of variables during handling of a column span, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1033 (bind) February 7, 2012The resolver in ISC BIND 9 through 9.8.1-P1 does not properly implement a cache update policy, which allows remote attackers to trigger continued resolvability of domain names that are no longer registered via an unspecified "Ghost Names exploit." […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3971 (chrome) February 7, 2012Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to mousemove events. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3954 (chrome) February 7, 2012Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors that trigger a large amount of database usage. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3970 (chrome, libxslt) February 7, 2012libxslt, as used in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-0926 (realplayer, realplayer_sp) February 7, 2012The RV10 codec in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.x, 14.x, and 15.x before 15.02.71, and RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5, does not properly handle height and width values, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RV10 RealVideo video stream. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3969 (chrome) February 7, 2012Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to layout of SVG documents. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3956 (chrome) February 7, 2012The extension implementation in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 does not properly handle sandboxed origins, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted extension. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3968 (chrome) February 7, 2012Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2012-1035 (ada_web_services) February 7, 2012AdaCore Ada Web Services (AWS) before 2.10.2 computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted parameters. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2011-3958 (chrome) February 7, 2012