Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.packtpub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introducing WordPress; Getting into WordPress; Using it for a blog or a website; Understanding the common terms; Post; Categories and tags; Comments; Theme; Plugin; Widget; Menus; RSS; Page; Users; Choosing WordPress -- the reason why; A long time in refining; Active in development; Large community of contributors; Amazingly extendable; Getting to know the WordPress family; Digging into WordPress -- the features; Getting familiar with the new feature list since 3.0.

Learning moreLearning more with online WordPress resources; Staying updated through WordPress news; Understanding the Codex; Getting support from other users; Using theme and plugin directories; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Building your WordPress website -- start here; Using WordPress.com; Publishing your first content on a WordPress.com blog; Installing WordPress manually; Preparing the environment; Downloading WordPress; Upgrading from an earlier version of WordPress; Uploading the files; Installing WordPress; Installing WordPress through a hand-built configuration file.

Learning moreInstalling WordPress through an auto-installer script; The WP Admin panel; Changing general blog information; Creating your first post; Writing your first comment; Retrieving a lost password; Getting a Gravatar; Summary; Chapter 3: Creating Blog Content; WP Admin conventions; Lists of items; Posting on your blog; Adding a simple post; Common post options; Categories and tags; Images in your posts; Using the visual editor versus the text editor; Lead and body; Drafts, pending articles, timestamps, and managing posts; Advanced post options; Excerpt; Sending pingbacks and trackbacks.

DiscussionCustom Fields; Working with post revisions; Changing the author of the post; Protecting content; The pretty post slug; Custom post format settings; Additional writing options; Press This; Posting via e-mail; External blogging tools; Mobile apps for iOS and Android; Discussion on your blog -- comments; Adding a comment; Discussion settings; Submission, notification, and moderation settings; When to moderate or blacklist a comment; Avatar display settings; Moderating comments; How to eliminate comment spam; Getting an Akismet API key; Activating Akismet; Adding and managing categories.

Installing a plugin -- the how-to.