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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide. Build your own blog network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more!

WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide. Build your own blog network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more!

Lesley Harrison, Lesley A Harrison, Matt Mullenweg

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WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers.
This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves.
The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site.
Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches.
  • WordPress MU 2.8 Beginners Guide
    • Table of Contents
    • WordPress MU 2.8 Beginners Guide
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • About the Reviewers
    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Downloading the example code for the book
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. Introducing WordPress MU
      • What is WordPress MU
      • Making your own social blog network
      • What is BuddyPress
      • What is bbPress
      • Making and hosting my site
        • Choosing between VPS, dedicated, and grid hosting
          • VPS
            • Dedicated servers
            • Grid hosting
        • Server requirements for WordPress MU
        • Recommended WordPress MU hosts
      • Building our example site: The SlayerCafe
      • Planning your site
      • Summary
    • 2. Installing WordPress MU
      • Tools you will need
        • Text editors
        • FTP clients and other tools
      • Setting up a local web server
      • Time for action getting your server set up
        • What just happened?
        • Databases with MySQL
        • Preparing for WordPress MUcreating a database
      • Time for action creating a database for WordPress MU
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action subdomains for WordPress MU
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz your local server
        • Have a go hero getting more from Apache
      • Preparing your live server
      • Time for action working with cPanel
        • What just happened?
        • User blogs with subdomains
      • Time for action subdomains under WHM
        • What just happened?
        • One last thingwildcards and Apache
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz subdomains
      • Installing WordPress MU
      • Time for action getting WordPress MU up and running
        • What just happened?
        • Changing the admin password
      • Time for action changing the admin password
        • Letting people register
      • Time for action enabling registrations
        • What just happened?
        • Testing your site
      • Time for action creating a new user
        • Have a go hero doing more with the thing
      • Summary
    • 3. Customizing the Appearance of Your Site
      • Picking out a theme
      • Installing your new theme
      • Time for action installing a new theme
        • What just happened?
        • Styling the sign-up page
      • Time for action editing your theme
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero it's time to style
        • Setting the theme for your users' blogs
      • Time for action changing the default blog theme
        • What just happened?
      • Customizing your home page
      • Time for action making a sign-up button
        • What just happened?
        • Featured posts
      • Time for action featured posts
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero styling the featured post
        • Showing off your statistics
      • Time for action simple stats
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero adding extra stats
        • Pop quiz doing the thing
      • Displaying recent posts and comments
      • Time for action displaying the most active blogs
        • What just happened?
        • Customizing AHP Sitewide Recent Posts plugin
      • Time for action tweaking the recent post display options
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz doing the thing
        • Displaying Sitewide recent comments plugin
      • Time for action Sitewide recent comments
        • What just happened?
          • The plugin display code
        • Pop quiz multiuser plugins
      • Time for action our improved home page
      • Other important points
      • Summary
    • 4. Letting Users Manage Their Blogs
      • User management basics
        • Preparing the site for our users
          • Banned Names
            • Limited Email Registrations and Banned Email Domains
            • Media restrictions and upload space
            • Plugins
        • Have a go hero embedded videos
      • Customization options for your users
      • Time for action offering a selection of themes
        • What just happened?
        • User editable themes
      • Time for action userthemes revisited
        • What just happened?
        • User roles and admin panels
      • Time for action setting user levels and changing the user's admin panel
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero creating new roles
        • Hiding the dashboard
      • Time for action hiding the dashboard
        • What just happened?
        • More user options privacy and using their own domain
      • Time for action domain mapping
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero server setup for domains
        • Pop quiz doing the thing
      • A few things to consider
      • Summary
    • 5. Protecting Your Site
      • Signing up for reCAPTCHA
      • Stopping spam with reCAPTCHA and Bad Behavior
      • Time for action setting up reCAPTCHA
        • What just happened?
        • Bad Behavior
      • Time for action setting up Bad Behavior
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero taking spam prevention to the next level
        • Making sure the plugins run for your users
      • Time for action managing your users' plugins
        • What just happened?
      • Blocking bad guys with .htaccess
      • Time for action .htaccess settings to stop bad guys
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero build your own list
        • Pop quiz spam blocking
      • Other useful plugins
        • Moderating registrations
        • Taming your default categories
        • Regular backups without lifting a finger
      • Time for action automatic backups
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero other ways to do backups
      • Summary
    • 6. Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
      • Improved tagging
      • Time for action tagging blog posts
        • What just happened?
        • Sitewide tags
      • Time for action sitewide tag clouds
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero styling the tags page
      • Using pings
      • Time for action pings
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero more sites to ping
      • Trackbacks
      • Offering RSS feeds
      • Time for action offering RSS subscription options
        • FeedBurner
      • Time for action let's burn some feeds
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero offering more RSS options
      • Twitter and social bookmarking
        • Getting your readers to share posts
      • Time for action social bookmarking links
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero Digg this
        • Pop quiz traffic building
      • More about traffic building
      • Summary
    • 7. Sticky Features for your Blog Network
      • What do people mean by "sticky"?
      • Letting readers and authors communicate
        • Contact forms
      • Time for action setting up contact forms
        • What just happened?
        • Improved comments
      • Time for action IntenseDebate Comments
        • What just happened?
          • Activating IntenseDebate on your users' blogs
        • Have a go hero tweaking IntenseDebate
        • Community featuresgravatars
      • Time for action gravatars in WordPress MU
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero gravatars and themes
        • Encouraging sign-ups with downloads for members only
        • Welcoming new visitors
      • Time for action creating a welcome message
        • What just happened?
        • Related posts for visitors from search engines
        • Other ways to engage the community
          • Polls
          • Sitewide searching
        • Pop quiz doing the thing
      • Summary
    • 8. Adding Forums with bbPress
      • Installing bbPress
      • Time for action installing bbPress
        • What just happened?
      • One login for both the forum and the blog
      • Time for action user DB integration with WordPress MU
        • What just happened?
        • Handling new users
      • Time for action blog and forum registrations
        • What just happened?
        • Seamless theme integration
      • Time for action styling your forum
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero more advanced styling and integration
      • Managing your forum
      • Time for action managing your forum
        • What just happened?
          • Managing your users
      • Time for action setting user permissions
        • What just happened?
        • Useful plugins for bbPress
      • Time for action installing plugins
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero sharing information between forum and blog
        • Displaying recent posts in your blog
        • Creating forum topics using blog posts
        • Pop quiz doing the thing
      • Summary
    • 9. Social Networking with BuddyPress
      • BuddyPress
      • Setting up BuddyPress
      • Time for action installing the BuddyPress suite
        • What just happened?
        • BuddyPress plugins explained
          • Working with Extended Profiles
          • Private Messaging
          • Friends list
          • Groups
          • The Wire
          • Activity streams
          • Blog tracking
          • Forums
        • Themes for your BuddyPress network
      • Time for action installing new themes
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero designing your own theme
        • Putting BuddyPress content on your front page
        • Hooking up BuddyPress to other social networks
      • Time for action Facebook Connect
        • What just happened?
          • Integrating with Twitter
        • Improving your site's performance
      • Time for action speeding up BuddyPress
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz so many things BuddyPress can do
      • The future of BuddyPress
      • Summary
    • 10. Monetizing Your Site
      • Ways to monetize your site
        • Advertising networks as a revenue source
        • Selling ads directly
        • Ads in RSS feeds
        • Donate links
        • Revenue sharing
        • Premium memberships
        • Selling products via your site
      • Managing ads on WordPress MU
      • Time for action ad management with Advertising Manager
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero - advertising
        • Revenue sharing
      • Time for action revenue sharing
        • What just happened?
        • Premium memberships
          • MemberWing
          • EasyPaypal
      • Time for action premium memberships
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero hiding ads from paid members
        • Other ways to monetize your sitestores
      • Things to remember when monetizing your site
      • Summary
    • 11. Site Optimization
      • Choosing to optimize your site
      • Speed up your site with caching
      • Time for action setting up object cache
        • What just happened?
          • The downsides of caching and how to avoid them
      • More ways to speed up your siteoptimizing themes
        • Spreading the load
      • Time for action spreading the load
        • What just happened?
        • More theme optimization
        • Optimizing your database
      • Time for action optimizing your site through phpMyAdmin
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero automate that optimization!
      • Troubleshooting slow loading sites
      • Server side optimizations
        • Pop quiz speed up your site
      • Summary
    • 12. Troubleshooting and Maintaining your Site
      • Why worry about upgrades
      • Performing a safe upgrade
        • Performing a database backup via the command line
        • Performing a database backup via phpMyAdmin
      • Time for action performing the upgrade
        • What just happened?
        • Troubleshootingwhen upgrades go wrong
          • Solving database connection issues
          • Diagnosing unusual error messages
          • Error Message: Headers already sent...
        • Troubleshootingcommon problems
      • Time for action restoring a backup
        • What just happened?
        • Protecting your site from hackers
          • Patch regularly and use good passwords
          • Limit what your users can do
          • Avoiding social engineering
        • Pop quiz
      • Getting help online
        • Have a go hero posting to request support
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide. Build your own blog network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more!
  • Author: Lesley Harrison, Lesley A Harrison, Matt Mullenweg
  • Original title: WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide. Build your own blog network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more!
  • ISBN: 9781847196552, 9781847196552
  • Date of issue: 2009-10-27
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3boy
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing