Wordpress 2 Visual Quick Start Guide
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Wordpress 2 Visual QuickStart Guide is quite a popular book found at amazon to help beginners install and use wordpress for their blogs. Personally I love wordpress blogs as a content management website as you do not need to learn how to use FTP and you can post and blog anywhere you want with an internet connection.
Coming back to the book “Visual Quickstart Guide - Wordpress 2″
there are mixed reviews for the book at Amazon and personally I feel that the guide will only be useful for wordpress beginners.
The first two chapters are a very short introduction to what blogging is, how it works and installing Wordpress.
In chapter 2 of the Wordpress Guide, you learn how to set the blog options in the administration panel aka the Dashboard that goes with WP.
In chapter 3 Adding Content is dealt further into the features of the WP admin panel that enable you to write some content, posts and associate posts with one or more categories of your choice! You will also learn how to format, edit and delete posts and pages, with help of the rich text editor and other features build-in the admin interface. Screenshots of the editor with a step-by-step guide show how you can format your content, add links and images (even without any knowledge of HTML).
With the admin panel you can manage your posts and pages — equally important! In this chapter you get to know how to manage images and links as well. Often you might like to upload images or import a series of links and that can be done.
Wordpress 2 Visual Quick Start Guide - Chapter 4 is dedicated to moderating comments. Comments can be deleted when inappropriate, and we have to deal with spam treats. Fortunately, you will learn in this chapter how to activate Aksimet, a descent spam filter!
A Wordpress blog has can be extended to more than one user. Chapter 5, shows user roles and capabilities in a table and how they can be assigned to the administrator of a Wordpress blog. Basically you learn how to manage these accounts.
In chapter 6, the template files of WordPress are introduced — a mixture of HTML and PHP. Understanding how the PHP templates work can be intimidating at first but reveals its functionality soon enough.
The infamous WP loop is basically a chunk of PHP that essentially displays your posts and pages you authored in the WP admin panel!
In chapter 7 Wordpress Plugins deals with some handy plugins to enhance your default WP installation. In short, you get to know how to enable useful plugins from the admin panel. Some plugins are handy to add functionality you would otherwise never could enable yourself. You can make also your own but would require very advanced skills most of the time. I won’t stop you from trying though!
In this chapter you learn how to simply add author info, web stats, favicons, google ads to your WP blog. This is rather a short chapter.
You are not limited to using the default WP admin panel, there are other solutions to manage your WP blog. There are Blogging tools some blogging software compared which can be used in WP.
In the final chapter of Wordpress 2 Visual Quickstart Guide is Advanced tasks, you will get familiar with some advanced stuff you can do within Wordpress. You will see alternative ways to edit posts while directly accessing the database, how to do podcasting in WP, import posts from other blogging engines, RSS feeds and other interesting to know stuff.
If you prefer to learn Wodpress Visually in a form of video training and a true visual quickstart guide, then Wordpress Videos 2.0 would be a better choice for you to learn about Wordpress , it even covers how you can build a Web 2.0 Wordpress system and monetize your blogs
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