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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| What You Are Not to Read | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Introducing WordPress | |
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| Using the WordPress Hosted Service | |
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| Self-Hosting with WordPress.org | |
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| Flexing and Extending WordPress | |
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| Customizing WordPress | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Introducing WordPress | |
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| What WordPress Can Do for You | |
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| Discovering the Benefits of WordPress | |
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| Getting set up the fast and easy way | |
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| Extending WordPress's capabilities | |
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| Tailing part in the community | |
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| Choosing a WordPress Platform | |
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| Choosing the hosted version from WordPress.com | |
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| Self-hosting with WordPress.org | |
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| WordPress Blogging Basics | |
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| This Crazy Little Thing Called Blog | |
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| Dipping Into Blog Technologies | |
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| Archiving your publishing history | |
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| Interacting with your readers through comments | |
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| Feeding your readers | |
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| Tracking back | |
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| Dealing with comment and trackback spam | |
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| Using WordPress as a Content Management System | |
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| Exploring the difference between a website and a blog | |
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| Viewing examples: Blog versus website | |
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| Moving On to the Business of Blogging | |
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| Using the WordPress Hosted Service | |
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| Getting Started with WordPress | |
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| Creating a WordPress Account | |
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| Navigating WordPress | |
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| Using the WordPress Dashboard | |
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| Right Now | |
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| Recent Comments | |
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| Your Stuff | |
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| What's Hot | |
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| QuickPress | |
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| Recent Drafts | |
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| Stats | |
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| Setting Important Options before You Blog | |
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| Setting your General options | |
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| Adjusting your Date and Time settings | |
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| Setting your public profile: Tell us a little about yourself | |
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| Setting your preferences | |
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| Writing and Managing Your Blog | |
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| Ready? Set? Blog! | |
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| Inserting media files into your post | |
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| Refining your post options | |
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| Publishing your post | |
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| Organizing Your Blog by Subject | |
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| Creating categories and subcategories | |
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| Filing posts in categories and subcategories | |
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| Creating and Categorizing Your Blogroll | |
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| Creating link categories | |
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| Adding new links to your blogroll | |
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| Managing and Inviting Users | |
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| Managing authors and users | |
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| Inviting friends to WordPress.com | |
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| Managing Comments and Comment Spam | |
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| Setting discussion options for your blog | |
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| Viewing comments | |
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| Creating a Static Page | |
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| Setting Up Your Front Page | |
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| Publishing a Public or Private Blog | |
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| Publicizing through Social Media | |
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| Making sharing easy | |
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| Like button | |
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| Interaction Through SMS (Text Messaging) | |
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| Establishing Trust Relationships with OpenID | |
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| Enhancing Your Blog with Themes, Widgets, and Upgrades | |
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| Changing Your Blog's Look | |
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| Enhancing Your Theme with Features | |
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| Adding navigation menus | |
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| Changing the background color and image | |
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| Creating an iPad-friendly display | |
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| Changing the header image | |
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| Using the Custom Design upgrade | |
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| Widget Wonder: Adding Handy Tools to Your Sidebar | |
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| Selecting and activating widgets | |
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| Using Text widgets | |
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| Using the RSS widget | |
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| Upgrading Your WordPress Account (For a Fee) | |
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| Naming Your Domain | |
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| Self-Hosting With WordPress.org | |
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| Setting Up Blogging Base Camp | |
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| Establishing Your Domain | |
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| Understanding domain name extensions | |
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| Considering the cost of a domain name | |
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| Registering your domain name | |
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| Finding a Home for Your Blog | |
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| Getting help with hosting WordPress | |
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| Dealing with disk space and bandwidth | |
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| Transferring Files from Point A to Point B | |
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| Installing WordPress | |
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| Using SimpleScripts to install WordPress | |
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| Installing WordPress manually | |
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| Setting up the MySQL database | |
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| Uploading the WordPress files | |
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| Last step: Running the install script | |
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| Understanding the WordPress.org Dashboard | |
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| Logging On to the Dashboard | |
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| Navigating the Dashboard | |
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| Right Now | |
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| Recent Comments | |
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| Incoming Links | |
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| Plugins | |
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| QuickPress | |
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| Recent Drafts | |
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| WordPress Blog | |
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| Other WordPress News | |
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| Arranging the Dashboard to Your Tastes | |
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| Changing the Dashboard layout | |
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| Finding inline documentation and help | |
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| Creating your own work space | |
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| Setting Options on the Dashboard | |
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| Configuring the Settings | |
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| General | |
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| Writing | |
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| Reading | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Media | |
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| Privacy | |
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| Permalinks | |
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| Creating Your Personal Profile | |
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| Setting Your Blog's Format | |
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| Posts | |
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| Media | |
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| Links | |
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| Pages | |
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| Comments | |
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| Appearance | |
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| Plugins | |
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| Users | |
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| Tools | |
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| Establishing Your Blog Routine | |
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| Staying on Topic with Categories | |
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| Changing the name of a category | |
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| Creating new categories and deleting others | |
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| Link Lists: Sharing Your Favorite Sites | |
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| Organizing your links | |
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| Adding new links | |
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| Editing existing links | |
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| Examining a Blog Post's Address: Permalinks | |
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| Making your post links pretty | |
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| Customizing your permalinks | |
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| Making sure that your permalinks work with your server | |
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| Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options | |
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| Blog It!: Writing Your First Entry | |
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| Composing your blog post | |
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| Dressing up your posts with images, video, and audio | |
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| Refining your post options | |
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| Publishing your post | |
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| You are your own editor | |
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| Look Who's Talking on Your Blog | |
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| Managing comments and trackbacks | |
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| Moderating comments and trackbacks | |
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| Tackling spam with Akismet | |
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| Flexing and Extending WordPress | |
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| Media Management: Images, Audio, and Video | |
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| Inserting Images into Your Blog Posts | |
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| Aligning your images | |
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| Inserting a photo gallery | |
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| Inserting Video Files into Your Blog Posts | |
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| Inserting Audio Files into Your Blog Posts | |
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| Keeping Media Files Organized | |
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| Making the Most of WordPress Plugins | |
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| Finding Out What Plugins Are | |
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| Exploring the Plugins page | |
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| Discovering the one-click plugin update | |
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| Exploring the Plugins Included with WordPress | |
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| Incorporating Akismet | |
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| Saying Hello Dolly | |
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| Using Plugins: Just the Basics | |
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| Installing Plugins Manually | |
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| Finding and downloading the files | |
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| Reading the instructions | |
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| Uploading and Activating Plugins | |
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| Uploading a new plugin | |
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| Activating the plugin | |
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| Setting Plugin Options | |
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| Uninstalling Plugins | |
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| Understanding the Open Source Environment | |
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| Finding and Installing WordPress Themes | |
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| Getting Started with Free Themes | |
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| Finding free themes | |
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| Avoiding unsafe themes | |
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| Previewing themes | |
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| Downloading themes | |
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| Activating a New Theme | |
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| Browsing and Installing Themes from the Dashboard | |
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| Deciding to Use Commercial Themes | |
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| Customizing WordPress | |
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| Understanding Themes and Templates | |
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| Using WordPress Themes: The Basics | |
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| Understanding theme structure | |
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| Connecting templates | |
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| Contemplating the Structure of a WordPress Blog | |
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| Examining the Anatomy of a Template Tag | |
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| Getting Familiar with the Four Main Templates | |
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| The Header template | |
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| The Main Index template | |
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| The Sidebar template | |
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| The Footer template | |
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| Other templates | |
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| Putting a Theme Together | |
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| Connecting the templates | |
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| Using additional stylesheets | |
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| Customizing Your Blog Posts with Template Tags | |
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| Using Tags with Parameters for Sidebars | |
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| The calendar | |
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| List pages | |
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| Bookmarks (blogroll) | |
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| Post archives | |
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| Categories | |
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| Getting widgetized | |
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| Tweaking WordPress Themes | |
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| Styling with CSS: The Basics | |
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| CSS selectors | |
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| Classes and IDs | |
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| CSS properties and values | |
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| Changing the Background Color | |
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| Creating a custom background | |
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| Changing the background using CSS | |
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| Using Your Own Header Image | |