WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

Over 100 simple but incredibly effective recipes for creating powerful, custom WordPress themes

Overview

• Take control of the look and feel of your WordPress site
• Quick recipes to get started and successfully build advanced themes
• Step-by-step instructions and useful screenshots for easy learning
• Give a professional look to your web site with popular JavaScript libraries

In Detail

Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site and give it a professional look, especially in WordPress. Using custom themes you can brand your site for a particular corporate image, ensure standards compliance, and create easily navigable layouts. But most WordPress users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward and lot of issues pop up during the process.

This easy-to-use step-by-step guide will help you create powerful themes for your WordPress web site, and solve your theme development problems in a quick and effective way. It enables you to take full control over your site's design and branding and make it look smarter.

WordPress is distributed with two ready-to-use themes. You can use these themes to give a common look to your website, or use the techniques described in this book to create custom themes. This book includes over 100 useful recipes to help you get started and create advanced themes. It starts with the basics of WordPress themes and creating a theme from scratch. Then, it covers how to enhance your template and add effects to get a rich look. You will learn how to manage pages, categories, and tags for your blogs, and how to make your posts look unique. You will also learn about the comment system and sidebars that will help you give a new feel to your blog and web site.

This book will help you through the most common problems encountered when developing a WordPress theme. You will get tips to enhance your design skill and eventually enhance your blog's design.

Get solutions to common WordPress theme design problems and create custom themes to make your web site look smarter

What you will learn from this book

• Enhance your page templates, optimize the use of images, and add effects to them
• List your pages, categories, and tags on a blog and create navigation
• Stylize your posts to make them look interesting
• Display, format, and tweak the comment system to attract the visitors
• Add sophistication to your dynamic web site using popular JavaScript libraries
• Package and distribute your theme using the WordPress.org theme repository
• Display auxiliary information about the post being displayed using dynamic sidebars
• Empower your end users to change the contents displayed in the theme's sidebar without involving a programmer
• Change the style of your theme depending upon image content and time

Approach

Each recipe comprises step-by-step instructions followed by the analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order. There are plenty of useful screenshots to make learning easier for you.

Who this book is written for

This book is for WordPress developers who want to create powerful themes for their blogs and web sites to impress and influence visitors.

This book expects working knowledge of the WordPress platform. Knowledge of HTML and CSS would also be useful.

ISBN: 9781847198440

Date: 0000-00-00

Author(s): Nick Ohrn, Lee Jordan

Pages: 312

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Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook

This book follows a cookbook style, which will help you achieve outstanding results using ready-to-use recipes for reading comprehension, writing, and composition holding hands with Moodle 1.9 in the Web 2.0 Era. Each recipe is unique; some deal with similar teaching techniques, but they show how to develop the same technique using different software, situations, or topics. Images, videos, poems, songs, artists, classic stories, cartoons, superheroes, painting, the environment, and comics are inserted into the Moodle course, in order to be used as either prewriting or writing activities. If you are an English teacher who wants to discover practical, funny, and engaging activities to insert in your course, this is a perfectly designed book for you. It will help you to use different techniques in the teaching of reading comprehension, writing, and composition using a great variety of resources from the free and open source software available in the Web and interesting websites as well as social networks. You need basic experience with Moodle 1.9 or 1.9.5, as well as installation and configuration procedures.

ISBN: 9781849510882

Date: 2010-07-05

Author(s): Silvina P. Hillar

Pages: 304

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Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a web technique used to transfer data between a browser and server asynchronously without posting the web page to the server. "Asynchronously" implies that the processing of the web page continues while the Ajax request is sent to the server and a response is received from the server. The web page, or section(s) of the web page, is refreshed with the Ajax response without reposting the web page. Ajax has the following advantages over non-Ajax web applications. - Reduced response time and reduced server load, as the complete web page is not reposted. - Reduced bandwidth of web applications as only data is transferred and the HTML format is applied in the browser. - Separation of data, format and style. The book covers web search and RSS Feed with Ajax as well as form validation with Ajax frameworks for Java, JSP, JSF, and PHP. It discusses using Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper and is IDE based. JDeveloper has the following advantages over Eclipse IDE. - JDeveloper 11g provides an integrated JavaScript Editor for Ajax/Web development. - It also provides a PHP extension. - JDeveloper has a built-in support for JSF and for JDBC.  

ISBN: 9783540775959

Date: 2008-04-16

Author(s): Deepak Vohra

Pages: 238

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Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+

Get up and running with Google+ fast

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• Written in plain but entertaining English by the author of over 100 books and a few zillion Internet posts
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• Leads you gently through understanding how Plus works and shows you tons of examples of how to make it work for you
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• Helps you not only master Plus but also develop strategies to do whatever you desire to accomplish on this great new social media network

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In Detail

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Start your social media experience afresh, having the most fun you possibly can sitting at a computer or holding your smart phone.

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Whether restarting your social media participation from another network (doing it right and with a lot more control this time) or just jumping in for the first time, this book leads you triumphantly through Plus. Like Plus itself, the book is fun, exciting, and condenses everything you need for maximizing enjoyment in an easily readable format with tons of informative illustrations.

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Google Plus First Look shows you how to join Plus and the kind of initial setup that guarantees a successful and fun-filled experience. The second chapter shows you Circles, Google's innovative bit of genius that has taken social networking to a new level of control over our own interactions. We'll see (and I do mean see) how Hangouts (video conferencing) works, and master Streams (where posts go), and Sparks (that jumpstart us posting). Sharing photos and video is the easiest you've ever seen, and you will see it in Chapter 5. Nor do you have to leave Plus at home, in Chapter 6 we take our social networking with us on our smartphones. Photos and videos upload automatically, ready for sharing. Finally, we learn how to promote things the right way, the polite way on Plus. This book serves as an indispensible reference to all that and more.

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What you will learn from this book

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• The basics of Plus
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• The easiest but most productive methods of coming up to speed on this fun-packed, powerful new kind of social network
• Getting everyone in circles
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• Working with built-in video chat and related features
• Using Google+ on your mobile
• Promoting on Plus

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Approach

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Through over 100 books, mostly computer-related, the author has mastered a fun but information packed style that gives you exactly what you want — up to speed on Plus with minimal effort and maximum results.

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Who this book is written for

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Google+ or Plus (the terms are interchangeable) was written for everyone. This book mirrors that concept and is written for everyone — from us techheads (early adopters) to delightful old Aunt Mable and the rest of the Thursday Night Bridge Club. Because social networking exists for all people and we are all people — all of us are plusses on Plus.

ISBN: 9781849685344

Date: 2011-11-24

Author(s): Ralph Roberts

Pages: 208

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FileMaker Web Publishing: A Complete Guide to Using the API for PHP

FileMaker Web Publishing: A Complete Guide to Using the API for PHP, offers an unparalleled development strategy for database managers, web designers, and programmers who are interested in getting the most out of FileMaker databases on the web. The book introduces the basics of HTML, cascading style sheets, and PHP, then moves on to specific concepts such as database portals, value lists, and complex navigation systems. Advanced topics include uploading and referencing files within the database and sending dynamically formatted emails. With this book: Learn the fundamentals of working with FileMaker from a web publishing perspective. Understand how to set up and configure FileMaker Server. Create a blog application complete with tables, value lists, navigation links, style sheets, and authentication. Discover debugging methods to solve problems on demand by relying on a few simple tools and a bit of logic.

ISBN: 9781598220414

Date: 2007-07-31

Author(s): Allyson Olm, Stephen Knight, Michael Petrov

Pages: 472

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

The book walks through the main concepts of the MVC framework to help ASP.NET developers to move on to a higher level. It includes clear instructions and lots of code examples. It takes a simple approach, thereby allowing you to work with all facets of web application development: requirements, designing, testing, and deployment. This book is for ASP.NET developers who want a fast-paced guide to building powerful web applications using the ASP.NET MVC framework. All the code examples are in C#.

ISBN: 9781847197542

Date: 2009-03-16

Author(s): Maarten Balliauw

Pages: 256

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Office 2010 Web Apps For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

Enhance your Microsoft Office 2010 experience with Office 2010 Web Apps!

Office Web Apps complement Office, making it easy to access and edit files from anywhere. It also simplifies collaboration with those who don’t have Microsoft Office on their computers. This helpful book shows you the optimum ways you can use Office Web Apps to save time and streamline your work. Veteran For Dummies author Peter Weverka begins with an introduction to Office Web Apps and then goes on to clearly explain how Office Web Apps provide you with easier, faster, more flexible ways to get things done.

• Walks you through Office 2010 Web Apps and shows you the many ways they can save you time and help streamline your work
• Separates the individual elements of Office Web Apps to provide you with a look at each: Word Web App, PowerPoint Web App, Excel Web App, OneNote Web App, and managing your files on SharePoint 2010 or Windows Live
• Shows you the ways in which Office 2010 Web apps complements Office by allowing you to access and edit files from anywhere

Office 2010 Web Apps For Dummies helps you discover how to save time and effort when you use Office Web Apps.

ISBN: 9780470631676

Date: 2010-10-26

Author(s): Peter Weverka

Pages: 312

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