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An in-depth look at the internals of the WordPress system. As the most popular blogging and content management platform available today, WordPress is a powerful tool. This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional aspects of WordPress as well as plug-in and theme development.What is covered in this book?WordPress as a Content Management SystemHosting OptionsInstalling WordPress FilesDatabase

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Get comfortable with WordPress fast, with this media-rich, customized, hands-on learning experience!   Covers the upcoming release of a major upgrade to WordPress, WordPress 3.0 Tightly integrated with online video, screencast tutorials, podcasts, and more: the total learning experience for new WordPress users Companion website provides supplemental media including video, screencasts tutorials, podcasts, and much more.   WordPress has grown into the #1 blogging tool in its category: several

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Here’s a fix for the WordPress 3.2 admin menu disappearing. It seems to be a case of plugin incompatibility in many cases. I Googled and, for once, found good info on the WordPress.org site itself.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-new-wordpress-dashboard-problems-with-new-32-upgrade

But you don’t need to read all that. Here is the relevant suggestion:

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WordPress 3.2 continues to be a problem. I did find a way to edit previous posts, however.

In the Dashboard there is a listing of how many posts you have, how many pages, etc. If you click on the word Posts, it takes you to the regular Posts listing, and you can select a post to edit.

Unfortunately there is no such listing for Plugins, so I still cannot change or update settings on plugins. And I desperately need to do so.

Also, some plugins have their own dashboard and are operated manually from within WordPress. Too bad. No access.

There is a set of pulldown menus that appears across the top of the page when viewing the blog once you are logged in (not the dashboard, the blog itself), but it is very limited.

It has occurred to me that it the WP 3.2 might be incompatible with that particular theme, but if I change themes I will need to edit code, rearrange widgets, etc.—and I will not be able to in this WP version. Grrrrrr!

Plus, that has been one of my most stable themes, I have customized it, and I do not want to change it.

Please leave a comment if you have found a way around the plugin problem or if you have specific info about an remedial update on the horizon.

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If you’re anything like me, when I first set up my blog about a year ago, I had NO CLUE where to start.  Should I use Blogger, Blog spot, WordPress, or any of the 100′s of other blog platforms that are out there?

I assumed a blog was just a blog.  Boy, did I learn otherwise!

After a lot of research, recommendations, and help from others (that’s the “Network” part of network marketing) I realized that I better go with installing WordPress for my blog.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with WordPress, it’s a blog platform that gives you a pre-built blog site for free.  But if you REALLY want to boost up your blog marketing – you really need to get a self-hosted WordPress blog and your own personal domain.  And I’m going to go into more details why here in the list. Read the rest of this entry →

One of the most exciting features about wordpress is the fact that you can customise it to meet your needs. There are literally thousands of free designs available on the internet, and if this doesn’t suit you there is a whole heap more available for purchase.

WordPress also has a great feature which allows you to install plug-ins. These plug-ins are small pieces of programming that change how wordpress works, in some way.

For example you may have a plug-in which automatically deletes spam (undesirable) comments left on your site, or even one which automatically places advertisements in each page you create. The possibilities really are endless when it comes to customising wordpress to suit your needs.

The first thing you need to do to get wordpress running is to download the latest version, this is available on the wordpress.org web site. You will end up with a .zip file which is around 3mb in size. Read the rest of this entry →

NOTE: In each instance of code, you must remove the space after the < for it to work correctly. The space has to be included here so that the code can be displayed without problems.

I had struggled for a while with trying to figure out how to use them in WordPress, but when it came down to it, it was merely a case of adding a little HTML. Here’s how to do it:

First of all, create all the text on your page, including where you will be linking from (a list of FAQs) for examples and where you will be linking to (the anchor – a set of answers for example). Bear in mind that you can use anchors to link to another page altogether, so the link does not need to be on the same page as the anchor.

Create the Anchor

Once you have created all your text, go to the place that you want to place the anchor. This is most likely some text, but can just as easily be an image or any other part of your WordPress post. Read the rest of this entry →