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WordPress Top Plugins - Brandon Corbin
Table of Contents
WordPress Top Plugins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Plugin Basics
Safety first
Automatic install versus manual install
Automatic plugin installation
Plugin detail
Downloading, unpacking, installing
Activating the plugin
Connection Information required
Manual installation
Manually installing a plugin with a Mac
Transferring a plugin
Manually installing a plugin on Windows
Creating a bookmark with WinSCP
Transferring a plugin to your blog
Activating your plugin
Finding a plugin's settings
How plugins work
Managing plugins
Keeping your plugins up-to-date
Learn by tinkering
WordPress plugin API
PHP references
CSS
JavaScript
Troubleshooting plugins
Editing plugins
Summary
2. Generating Content
GD Star Rating
Fixing the default ratings
Turning off Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down on posts
Turning off Star Ratings on comments
Better Tag Cloud
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
My Page Order
Get Recent Comments
Viper's Video Quicktags
WP Greet Box
NextGen Gallery
Setting up your first gallery
Adding your gallery to a post or a page
Zemanta
CForms II
CForms administration
Modifying the default form
Adding your form to a page, post, or widget
Advanced CForms customizations
File upload settings
Messages, text, and button label
Core Form Admin / e-mail options
Admin e-mail message options
Auto confirmation
Multi-part / multi-page forms
Tell-A-Friend form support
WP comment feature
Third-party read-notification support
MapPress—Google maps
Adding a map to a post or page
WP-O-Matic
Creating your first campaign
Adding feeds
Categories
Understanding WP-O-Matic's options
Search unleashed
Setting up your search index
Creating your first index
WP Web Scrapper
Copyright warning
Adding a scrapping
Summary
3. Sharing Content
TweetMeme
Setting up TweetMeme
Wordbook
WP Download Manager
Adding a new download
Inserting a download into a post
Twiogle Twitter Commenter
ShareThis
Setting up ShareThis
Wibiya Bar - Beta
Installing the Wibiya bar
WP Facebook Connect
Creating an app ID for your blog
Adding the connect button to your comments
Twitter Friendly Links
Feedburner Feedsmith
Burning your feed
Create a Google account
Verify your blog's feed URL
Burn your feed
Name your feed
Configuring WP-Feedburner
SendIt
SendIt overview
Creating your first newsletter
Adding subscribers
Automatic import
SendIt Widget
Sending a mail
Subscribe-Remind
Sociable
Understanding social options
Disabling sprite usage for images
Disabling alpha mask on the share toolbar
Tagline
Position
Use Text Links
Image Directory
Use Thisbox/iFrame on links
Open in New Window
Awe.sm
Summary
4. Style and Function
About Me Widget
Setting up your About Me Widget
Category Posts Widget
After the Deadline
Using After the Deadline
WordPress Mobile Pack
Mobile themes
Browser detection and domain detection
Important Mobile Themes settings
WPTouch
Web App icon
Page icons
Creating your own icon
Push notifications
WP-Prowl
Setting up WP-Prowl
Favicons
Setting up your Favicon
Picking from the gallery
Use your Gravatar as Favicon
Using a remote icon
Theme Switcher
Advanced marketing use
Image Widget
Post Layout
Inserting content
Breadcrumb NavXT
Inserting the Breadcrumb
Basic Breadcrumb
Exec-PHP
Using Exec-PHP to list your latest tweets
Summary
5. Building a Community with BuddyPress
Before setting up BuddyPress
Sticking to your Community Purpose
BuddyPress
BuddyPress features
Smooth member signup
Twitter-like posting
Profiles
Member communication
Forums
Groups
Members Directory
BuddyPress themes
Cosmic Buddy
BP Nicey
Sense and Sensibility BP 1.6
More themes
BuddyPress plugins
Group Documents
TweetStream
Connecting to Twitter
BuddyPress Album+
Setting up your Community Groups
Step 1: Group details
Step 2: Settings
Step 3: Avatar
Tips for driving traffic to your community
Friends and family
Social networks
Google AdWords
Google search
Summary
6. Generating Revenue
Donation Can
Zazzle Widget
Setting up the Zazzle Widget
AmazonFeed
Setting up AmazonFeed
Configuration
Post / page specific items
Advertising Manager
Creating a Google AdSense Ad
Creating your first ad in Advertising Manager
Adding the Widget
iTunes Affiliate Link Maker (iTALM)
Adding links to a post
WP e-Commerce, FREE Version
Setting up WP e-Commerce
Adding a digital product
Product Detail
Categories and Tags
Price and Stock Control
Shipping Details
Product Images
Product Download
Setting up your Payment Gateway
Web Invoice—invoicing and billing for WordPress
Setting up an invoice
Select the client
Client Information
Recurring Billing
Invoice Details
Publish
My Ad Manager
Creating the Advertise Here Page
Adding the Widget
Setting up your House Ads
Summary
7. Working with Multiple Authors
Authors Widget
Author Spotlight
Styling the Author widget
Blog Metrics
Cimy User Extra Fields
Pre-Publish Reminder
Edit Flow
Audit Trail
WP-CMS Post Control
Guest Blogger
Adding a new article import
Subscribe to Author Posts Feed
Author Advertising
Setting up Author Advertising widget
The Author Page
Advertising code
Co-Author Plus
Private Messages for WordPress
Summary
8. Security and Maintenance
Security basics
Passwords
Update often
Back up often
Limit Login Attempts
Setting up Limit Login Attempts
Lockout
Secure WordPress
Secure WordPress's options explained
Akismet
Bad Behavior
Upload+
WP Security Scan
Latest version
Table prefix
Hiding Version # and Meta Tag ID
WordPress DB Errors
.htaccess in Admin folder
WP-DBManager
Understanding your database's health
What is a database?
What is MySQL?
How does WordPress use MySQL?
Repair, Optimize, and Backup
WP-DB-Backup
WordPress Backup
Maintenance Mode
Customizing the maintenance notice
WP-Optimize
Quick Cache
Quick Cache Options explained
Error Reporting
Auto Delete old log files
Configuration
Summary
9. Power Admin
Fluency Admin
Quick key access
Styling the login screen
StatPress
Key datapoints
Latest Referrers
Search Terms
Operating Systems
Browsers Used
Spy View
Notifier
Shockingly Big IE6 Warning
Admin Links Widget
WordPress Admin Bar
Code Editor
WordPress Admin QuickMenu
Setting up your links
Email Users
E-mail ideas
Exclusive e-mailer
Special deals and offers
Helping a cause
Tips and tricks
Broken Link Checker
Admin Management Xtended
Understanding the interface
Menu Manager
Simple Tags
Configuring third party Taxonomy Services
Redirection
Widget Logic
Commonly used logic
Summary
10. Time for Action
The open source business model
WordPress for prototyping
Real business models with WordPress
Selling digital goods
Selling themes
Selling plugins
Selling advertising spots
Job board
Corporate blogging software
Hosting WordPress
Continuing education
Summary
Index
WordPress Top Plugins
WordPress Top Plugins
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Credits
Author
Brandon Corbin
Reviewer
M. Liz Allyn
Acquisition Editor
Usha Iyer
Development Editor
Mayuri Kokate
Technical Editors
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Manasi Poonthottam
Copy Editor
Leonard D’Silva
Indexer
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Editorial Team Leader
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Project Team Leader
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Project Coordinator
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Proofreader
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Production Coordinator
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Cover Work
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About the Author
Brandon Corbin is an accomplished web enthusiast with a background in advertising, and has used his knowledge of design and marketing to create websites for many of the Fortune 500. For more than a decade, he has applied his passions to several industries—including radio, real estate, pharmaceuticals, recruiting, and e-Commerce—with an obsessive attention to creating a smooth user experience.
I would like to thank my wonderful wife Emily and my awesome children—Maddy and Ethan, all of whom put up with my absence during the writing of this book. You guys mean the world to me.
About the Reviewer
M. Liz Allyn has been interested in computers since her high school days, and minored in Computer Science and Math while finishing her BS in Chemistry. After earning a Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry, she worked as a development scientist, group leader, and senior quality assurance officer. These real jobs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries taught her that she hated cubicles.
To Liz, the fun part was teaching the technicians and working in the laboratories with the instrumentation. Her most interesting lab project was programming a robot in a pharmaceutical lab to prepare samples for chemical analysis. Sample preparation time was reduced by 75 percent, which allowed the technicians to attend to other tasks.
In between teaching assignments Liz taught herself html, became a certified webmaster, and learned to use PHP and MySQL in developing websites. She has been blogging with WordPress for four years now.
Among a few websites that she keeps active Liz likes to share tips about WordPress and the underlying HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL with her readers at computeraxe.com. When she’s not helping clients deal with their website or database issues, Liz enjoys writing about plants and sharing pictures of nature at her WordPress blog, wildeherb.com.
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.
Conventions
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