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Overview

Learn the ins and outs of the world’s most popular blogging platform, WordPress! In this 8+ hour course, award-winning expert software trainer Geoff Blake teaches you how to install and set up a blog (both on a local machine and on a live site), create pages and posts, add in images and media, and how to integrate some of your favorite applications, like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator. From there, delve into blog customization and learn about widgets, blogrolls, custom sidebars, plugins, and a whole lot more. Jump into the world of blogging with Ten Ton WordPress Mastery!

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Welcome to Ten Ton WordPress Mastery!

Ready for Some WordPress?

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Chapter 1: Understanding What WordPress Is

About Blogging And WordPress

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The Main Areas Of A WordPress Blog

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A Blog's Front End And Back End

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Chapter 2: Lets Getcha Up And Running with WordPress

Setting Up A Free Blog On WordPress.com

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Setting Up A Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

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Installing Locally On A Mac Part One: Installing MAMP

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Installing Locally On A Mac Part Two: Installing WordPress

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Installing Locally On A PC Part One: Installing XAMPP

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Installing Locally On A PC Part Two: Installing WordPress

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TASK #1: Applications You May Use With WordPress

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Chapter 3: The Sights: A Tour Of The WordPress Interface

Viewing And Customizing The Dashboard

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Touring The Rest Of The Admin Interface

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The WordPress Codex And Online Forums

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Chapter 4: Making Your Blog Your Own

Gettin' To Settin' Up Your Profile

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Setting The Blog's General Options

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Now On To Themes: Changing Your Blog's Design

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Discovering Even More Themes

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Viewing Your Blog's Theme Files

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Using The WordPress Theme Directory

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Manually Installing Themes

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Auto Installing Themes From The Theme Directory

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TASK #2: Ten Awesome WordPress Themes To Explore

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Chapter 5: Let's Get Creating Some Posts

Touring The Edit Post Screen And Writing Posts With The Visual Editor

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A Quick Mention: Setting Your Post's Discussion Options

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Editing Your Posts And A Look At The Quick Edit Feature

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Formatting And Previewing Your Posts

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Inserting And Editing Links To Sites And Email Addresses

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Super-Sweet: It's WordPress's Kitchen Sink Toolbar

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Setting Publishing Options For Your Posts

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Understanding Excerpts, Trackbacks, And Pingbacks

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Chapter 6: Additional Posting Techniques

Get Editing Your Published Posts

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Making Your Blog Easier To Read: Adding

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Creating And Editing Posts With The HTML Editor

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Ready For This? Creating HTML Posts With Dreamweaver

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Adjusting Your Blog's Writing Settings

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Password Protecting A Post

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Chapter 7: Adding Media To Posts, Part One

First Up, Setting Your Blog's Media Options

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Droppin' Graphics Into Posts

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Adding An Image From A URL

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Loading Images Into The Media Library

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Inserting Images Into Posts From The Library

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Editing Your Inserted Images

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Editing Images In The HTML Editor

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Dig This: Using WordPress's Image Editor

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Understanding Graphics In Web Design

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TECHNIQUE #1: Preparing Images In Photoshop For Use On Your Blog

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TECHNIQUE #2: WordPress Workflow: From Illustrator To Photoshop To Your Blog

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And Now On To Video

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Chapter 8: Adding Media To Posts, Part Two

Adding In Some Video To Your A Posts

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Using Auto-Embed To Add In Video

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Droppin' In Some Audio

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Linking To PDFs And Other Types Of Media

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Managing Your Inserted Media

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Chapter 9: Working With Categories And Tags

Getting Started With Categories

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Creating New Blog Categories

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Gettin' Organized; Applying Categories To Posts

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Setting Your Blog's Default Category (And A Fast Way For Creating Categories)

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Get Applying Tags To Posts

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Chapter 10: Working With WordPress Pages

Understanding Pages Versus Posts

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Editing And Scratch Building WordPress Pages

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TECHNIQUE #3: Creating An HTML Contact Page With Dreamweaver

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Setting Your Blog's Front Page And Going Further With Dreamweaver Design

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Controlling Page Order And Hierarchy

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Makin' Use Of Your Theme's Page Templates

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Chapter 11: Creating And Managing A Blogroll

What The Heck Is A Blogroll? Let's Get Started

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Adding Links To Your Blogroll

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Adding And Removing Blogroll Links

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Creating Custom Link Categories

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Chapter 12: Viewing Comments And Adding Users

A Real-World Look At The Disqus Commenting System

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Moderating Comments On Your Blog

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Setting Up Discussion Options

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Allowing Others To Contribute: Adding Additional Users

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Understanding WordPress's Different User Privileges

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Chapter 13: Customizing Permalinks And RSS Feeds

Setting Your Blog's Permalinks

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So Let's Get Creating Custom Permalinks

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Viewing Your Blog's .Htaccess File

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Blog Syndication: Understanding RSS Feeds

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Determining Your Blog's RSS URL

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Figuring Out RSS Feeds For Your Blog's Categories

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Chapter 14: Extending Your Blog With Widgets

Diggin' Into Sidebar Customization

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Getting More Comfortable With Widgets (And Setting Up An RSS Widget)

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A First Look At The Arbitrary Text Widget

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Using Dreamweaver To Create A Custom Widget

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TECHNIQUE #4: Adding A Twitter Widget To Your Blog

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Chapter 15: Into The World Of Plugins

Now On To Plugins: A Big Toe In The Massive Pool Of WordPress Plugins

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Exploring The WordPress Plugin Directory

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Installing And Configuring Plugins

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Manually Installing Plugins On Your Blog

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TASK #3: Ten Killer WordPress Plugins To Explore

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Adding In Some Custom Widgets

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Chapter 16: Uploading Your Completed Site!

Step One: Exporting the Local Database

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Step Two: Changing Local URLs to Remote URLs

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Step Three: Creating the Live MySQL Database

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Step Four: Adding A User to the Live Database

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Step Five: Importing the Local Database into the Live Database

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Step Six: Setting Live Database Info

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Step Seven: Uploading the Site Files

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Step Eight: Viewing the Live Result

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