WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide. Build your own blog network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more!

WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide. Build your own blog network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more! - Opis

WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers.This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves.The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site.Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches. Spis treści:
WordPress MU 2.8 Beginners Guide
Table of Contents
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Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
What this book covers
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code for the book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introducing WordPress MU
What is WordPress MU
Making your own social blog network
What is BuddyPress
What is bbPress
Making and hosting my site
Choosing between VPS, dedicated, and grid hosting
VPS
Dedicated servers
Grid hosting
Server requirements for WordPress MU
Recommended WordPress MU hosts
Building our example site: The SlayerCafe
Planning your site
Summary
2. Installing WordPress MU
Tools you will need
Text editors
FTP clients and other tools
Setting up a local web server
Time for action getting your server set up
What just happened?
Databases with MySQL
Preparing for WordPress MUcreating a database
Time for action creating a database for WordPress MU
What just happened?
Time for action subdomains for WordPress MU
What just happened?
Pop quiz your local server
Have a go hero getting more from Apache
Preparing your live server
Time for action working with cPanel
What just happened?
User blogs with subdomains
Time for action subdomains under WHM
What just happened?
One last thingwildcards and Apache
What just happened?
Pop quiz subdomains
Installing WordPress MU
Time for action getting WordPress MU up and running
What just happened?
Changing the admin password
Time for action changing the admin password
Letting people register
Time for action enabling registrations
What just happened?
Testing your site
Time for action creating a new user
Have a go hero doing more with the thing
Summary
3. Customizing the Appearance of Your Site
Picking out a theme
Installing your new theme
Time for action installing a new theme
What just happened?
Styling the sign-up page
Time for action editing your theme
What just happened?
Have a go hero it's time to style
Setting the theme for your users' blogs
Time for action changing the default blog theme
What just happened?
Customizing your home page
Time for action making a sign-up button
What just happened?
Featured posts
Time for action featured posts
What just happened?
Have a go hero styling the featured post
Showing off your statistics
Time for action simple stats
What just happened?
Have a go hero adding extra stats
Pop quiz doing the thing
Displaying recent posts and comments
Time for action displaying the most active blogs
What just happened?
Customizing AHP Sitewide Recent Posts plugin
Time for action tweaking the recent post display options
What just happened?
Pop quiz doing the thing
Displaying Sitewide recent comments plugin
Time for action Sitewide recent comments
What just happened?
The plugin display code
Pop quiz multiuser plugins
Time for action our improved home page
Other important points
Summary
4. Letting Users Manage Their Blogs
User management basics
Preparing the site for our users
Banned Names
Limited Email Registrations and Banned Email Domains
Media restrictions and upload space
Plugins
Have a go hero embedded videos
Customization options for your users
Time for action offering a selection of themes
What just happened?
User editable themes
Time for action userthemes revisited
What just happened?
User roles and admin panels
Time for action setting user levels and changing the user's admin panel
What just happened?
Have a go hero creating new roles
Hiding the dashboard
Time for action hiding the dashboard
What just happened?
More user options privacy and using their own domain
Time for action domain mapping
What just happened?
Have a go hero server setup for domains
Pop quiz doing the thing
A few things to consider
Summary
5. Protecting Your Site
Signing up for reCAPTCHA
Stopping spam with reCAPTCHA and Bad Behavior
Time for action setting up reCAPTCHA
What just happened?
Bad Behavior
Time for action setting up Bad Behavior
What just happened?
Have a go hero taking spam prevention to the next level
Making sure the plugins run for your users
Time for action managing your users' plugins
What just happened?
Blocking bad guys with .htaccess
Time for action .htaccess settings to stop bad guys
What just happened?
Have a go hero build your own list
Pop quiz spam blocking
Other useful plugins
Moderating registrations
Taming your default categories
Regular backups without lifting a finger
Time for action automatic backups
What just happened?
Have a go hero other ways to do backups
Summary
6. Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
Improved tagging
Time for action tagging blog posts
What just happened?
Sitewide tags
Time for action sitewide tag clouds
What just happened?
Have a go hero styling the tags page
Using pings
Time for action pings
What just happened?
Have a go hero more sites to ping
Trackbacks
Offering RSS feeds
Time for action offering RSS subscription options
FeedBurner
Time for action let's burn some feeds
What just happened?
Have a go hero offering more RSS options
Twitter and social bookmarking
Getting your readers to share posts
Time for action social bookmarking links
What just happened?
Have a go hero Digg this
Pop quiz traffic building
More about traffic building
Summary
7. Sticky Features for your Blog Network
What do people mean by "sticky"?
Letting readers and authors communicate
Contact forms
Time for action setting up contact forms
What just happened?
Improved comments
Time for action IntenseDebate Comments
What just happened?
Activating IntenseDebate on your users' blogs
Have a go hero tweaking IntenseDebate
Community featuresgravatars
Time for action gravatars in WordPress MU
What just happened?
Have a go hero gravatars and themes
Encouraging sign-ups with downloads for members only
Welcoming new visitors
Time for action creating a welcome message
What just happened?
Related posts for visitors from search engines
Other ways to engage the community
Polls
Sitewide searching
Pop quiz doing the thing
Summary
8. Adding Forums with bbPress
Installing bbPress
Time for action installing bbPress
What just happened?
One login for both the forum and the blog
Time for action user DB integration with WordPress MU
What just happened?
Handling new users
Time for action blog and forum registrations
What just happened?
Seamless theme integration
Time for action styling your forum
What just happened?
Have a go hero more advanced styling and integration
Managing your forum
Time for action managing your forum
What just happened?
Managing your users
Time for action setting user permissions
What just happened?
Useful plugins for bbPress
Time for action installing plugins
What just happened?
Have a go hero sharing information between forum and blog
Displaying recent posts in your blog
Creating forum topics using blog posts
Pop quiz doing the thing
Summary
9. Social Networking with BuddyPress
BuddyPress
Setting up BuddyPress
Time for action installing the BuddyPress suite
What just happened?
BuddyPress plugins explained
Working with Extended Profiles
Private Messaging
Friends list
Groups
The Wire
Activity streams
Blog tracking
Forums
Themes for your BuddyPress network
Time for action installing new themes
What just happened?
Have a go hero designing your own theme
Putting BuddyPress content on your front page
Hooking up BuddyPress to other social networks
Time for action Facebook Connect
What just happened?
Integrating with Twitter
Improving your site's performance
Time for action speeding up BuddyPress
What just happened?
Pop quiz so many things BuddyPress can do
The future of BuddyPress
Summary
10. Monetizing Your Site
Ways to monetize your site
Advertising networks as a revenue source
Selling ads directly
Ads in RSS feeds
Donate links
Revenue sharing
Premium memberships
Selling products via your site
Managing ads on WordPress MU
Time for action ad management with Advertising Manager
What just happened?
Have a go hero - advertising
Revenue sharing
Time for action revenue sharing
What just happened?
Premium memberships
MemberWing
EasyPaypal
Time for action premium memberships
What just happened?
Have a go hero hiding ads from paid members
Other ways to monetize your sitestores
Things to remember when monetizing your site
Summary
11. Site Optimization
Choosing to optimize your site
Speed up your site with caching
Time for action setting up object cache
What just happened?
The downsides of caching and how to avoid them
More ways to speed up your siteoptimizing themes
Spreading the load
Time for action spreading the load
What just happened?
More theme optimization
Optimizing your database
Time for action optimizing your site through phpMyAdmin
What just happened?
Have a go hero automate that optimization!
Troubleshooting slow loading sites
Server side optimizations
Pop quiz speed up your site
Summary
12. Troubleshooting and Maintaining your Site
Why worry about upgrades
Performing a safe upgrade
Performing a database backup via the command line
Performing a database backup via phpMyAdmin
Time for action performing the upgrade
What just happened?
Troubleshootingwhen upgrades go wrong
Solving database connection issues
Diagnosing unusual error messages
Error Message: Headers already sent...
Troubleshootingcommon problems
Time for action restoring a backup
What just happened?
Protecting your site from hackers
Patch regularly and use good passwords
Limit what your users can do
Avoiding social engineering
Pop quiz
Getting help online
Have a go hero posting to request support
Summary
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