Reading notes - WordPress the missing manual

目录

Chapter 1: The WordPress Landscape

Chapter 4: Creating Posts

Chapter 5: Choosing and Polishing Your Theme

Chapter 6: Making Fancier Posts​​​​​​​


Chapter 1: The WordPress Landscape

  • Website vs. webapp
  • Wordpress can create from blog to business website, almost any types of website
  • How wordpress works
    • Not just a tool to build web pages
    • it builds its pages on the fly
    • you give WordPress your raw content, WordPress assembles that content into a perfectly tailored page.
    • Wrodpress is a program that runs on a web server and puts the content together.
    • 2 crucial components
      • A database: mysql
      • Programming code: PHP

  • Worldpress pros:
    • For ordinary people to build dynamic web sites
    • Tested: reliable, safer
  • Wordpress themes
    • WordPress wants to adapt itself to whatever design you have in mind
    • Content(DB) vs. formatting(Theme)

chapter 2 & chapter 3 ignored, for installing word press

Chapter 4: Creating Posts

  • Key concepts
    • Post
    • Taxonomy (category)
    • Post url
  • Admin area
    • Url: <wordpress-url>/wp-admin
    • Logout when finish
  • The admin menu
    • Menu vs. submenu
    • Collapse menus
  • The dashboard
    • Welcome box
    • At a glance
    • Quick draft
    • Activity
  • Administration practice
    • Basic settings
      • Site title, tagline: page title, log, favorite text
      • Time zone
      • Date format and time format
      • Week starts on
    • Choosing a starter theme
      • Default theme name after released years
      • Menu appearance > themes
    • Creating a new post
      • Menu posts > add new
      • [enter] go to next block
      • Block toolbar
      • Actions
        • Save draft
        • Preview
        • publish

Browsing Your Posts

  • Setting posts per page: Settings > Reading
  • Ways browsing posts
    • By most recent
    • By month
    • By category or tag
    • By author
    • Using a search

  • Delaying Publication
    • Steps
      • Before you start, make sure WordPress has the right time settings
      • To write your post, choose Posts→Add New.
      • Click the Publish button
      • Click the “Publish immediately” section
      • Use the provided boxes to pick a future date and the exact time when the post should go live
      • Click the Schedule button to commit to publishing the post
    •  older publication date
  • Editing a Post
    • Edit Post link on post page when logged in
    • Admin area: Posts→All Posts
    • Quick Edit link
    • WordPress doesn’t display any sort of timestamp or message about when you last edited a post
  • Deleting a Post
    • Posts page > row > trash
    • Edit page > move to trash
    • Trashed posts aren’t completely gone
    • Undo: Item moved to Trash. Undo
    • Trash post > restore / delete permanently
  • Creating a Sticky Post
    • post that you want to feature at the top of the list
    • If you have more than one sticky post, it lists the most recent one first.
    • Steps
      • gear icon in the top-right corner
      • Check  “Stick to the top of the blog”
    • Unsticky: Turn off the “Make this post sticky” checkbox
    • The Path to Blogging Success
      • Make sure your content is worth reading
      • Add new content regularly
      • Keep your content organized
  • Organizing Your Posts
    • 2 ways: categories and tags
    • Understanding Categories
      •  every post has a category
      •  posts should have just one category
    • Categorizing Posts
    • Setting default category:  Settings→Writing
  • Using Subcategories
    • Subcategory vs. parent category
    • When you assign a post to a subcategory, make sure you pick the subcategory only, not the parent category.
    •  If a category doesn’t have any posts, it won’t appear in the Categories list.
  • Managing Categories
    • Posts→Categories
    • When delete category, WordPress reassigns any posts in the category to the default category
    • Slug: appears in the web address when you’re browsing the posts in a specific category

  • Understanding tags
    • Tags are often more specific than categories.
    • guidelines
      • Don’t over-tag
      • Keep your tags short and precise.
      • Reuse your tags on different posts
      • Consider using popular tags
      • Don’t duplicate your category with a tag of the same name
    • Tagging Posts
      • Tag Cloud widget
      • Admin page: Posts→Tags
      • Trick: Being in Two Places at Once,  Ctrl-click
  • Working with Several Posts at Once
    • Taking Charge of the List of Posts
      • Config page size
        • Table bottom-right corner
        •  Screen Options button
      • filtering
      • Sorting
      • search box in the top-right corner: keywords in their titles or text
    • Deleting a Group of Posts
      • Check > bulk actions > move to trash
    • Editing a Group of Posts
      • Check > bulk actions > edit > apply
  • How to Get High-Quality Web Addresses
    • search engines
    • Permalink: permanent link
    • Choosing a Permalink Style
      • Default to "Day and name"
      • “Post name” style
      • Same name with a number
      • Setting  as soon as possible
      • Settings→Permalinks
      • End with %post_id% or %post_name%
      • Better with category
    • Changing a Post’s Permalink
      • Publish or preview for slug
      • No spaces and special characters for slug
      • Change  Plain permalink style first
      • redirection for slugs
      • A > B > C, no back way
      • Solution: remove post or plugin
    • Browsing Categories and Tags Using a Web Address

Chapter 5: Choosing and Polishing Your Theme

  • Essentially, a theme is a set of files
  • 2 study goals
    • enhance the Twenty Twenty theme
    • pick a stylish new one
  • How Themes Work
    • templates
      • header.php
      • single.php
    • style.css
  • Understanding the WordPress Year Themes
    • The first year theme was named Twenty Ten
    • Twenty Twenty
      •  adjusts itself for mobile devices
      • Twenty Twenty doesn’t include a sidebar.
    • Twenty Nineteen
      • minimalist
      • doesn’t include a sidebar.
    • Twenty Seventeen
      • business sites.
      • good at showcasing big header pictures
    • Twenty Sixteen
      •  adds some extra touches
      • solid border
    • newer year themes don’t replace older ones
  • Making Your Theme Suit Your Site
    • several paths
      • Changing to a different theme
      • Tweaking your theme settings
      • Customizing your widgets
      • Editing your theme
        • work on the code
  • Choosing a theme
    • Standard themes vs. third-party themes
    • Theme gallery
    • Themes also influence the way your site works
    • all the themes in the WordPress repository are guaranteed to be safe and spyware-free
    • You can upload a theme too
  • Tweaking the theme
    • You need to customize your theme
    • Widgets and menus
    • Theme customizer
    • Differences between themes
    • The theme customizer
      • Live preview
      • Appearance > customize
      • Site identity
      • Colors
      • Theme options
      • Cover template
      • Background image
      • Menus
      • Widgets
      • Homepage settings
    • Colors
      • Different theme, different color choices
    • Header pictures and logos
      • Media library
      • Prepare image
      • Crop image
      • Random header pictures
    • Background images
      • Tile left to right, top to bottom
    • Post excerpts
      • First 50 words
    • Widgets
      • Widget areas: often sidebars or footers
      • Widget area names
      • Post templates
      • 2 ways of setting widgets
        • Appearance > widgets
        • Theme customizer
      • Arrange widget 
        • Move
        • Setting widget
        • Remove
        • Add
      • Standard widgets
        • Archives
        • Audio
        • Calendar
        • Categories
        • Custom html
        • Gallery
        • Image
        • Navigation menu
        • Meta
        • Pages
        • Recent comments
        • Rss
        • Search
        • Tag cloud
        • Text
        • Video
      • Tag cloud
        • Can also be category cloud
          • change the Taxonomy setting from Tags to Categories
        • Limit to 45 tags
      • The text widget
        • Support Custom html
      • Custom html widget
        • For better html editing
    • Responsive themes
      • all the WordPress year themes since Twenty Eleven support it
      • For not responsive themes, You can use a mobile-aware plugin. One is Wptouch

Chapter 6: Making Fancier Posts​​​​​​​

  • Post editor
  • Looks dep on theme
  • Simple Text Formatting
    • Applying Bold and Italics
      • Just select your text and hit the handy Ctrl-B or Ctrl-I keyboard shortcut
    • Link
      • Remote vs. local links
      • Edit, unlink
    • Formatting Drop Caps, Size, and Background Color
      • In the sidebar
      • Many block types
    • Blocks
      • Add block button
        • Toolbar
        • Between blocks
        • Beside new blocks
        • Shortcut: /
      • Block groups
        • Most used
        • Common
        • Formatting
        • Layout
        • Widget
        • Embed
        • Reusable
      • Essential blocks
        • Subheading
          • Head level: h2
          • Anchor: #anchor-name
        • Separator, spacer
        • Lists
          • Bulleted vs. numbered
          • Shortcut:
            • Bulleted: * + space
            • Numbered: 1. + space
          • Reverse order
          • Sublist
    • Quotes
      • Quote
        • Someone else word
      • Pullquote
        • Inner quote
      • Citation
    • Typeface, fontsize: no change
    • Table
      • No for column layout
      • Header, footer section
      • Col alignment
      • Stripe
    • Button
      • Link for action
      • Multiple button
    • Social icon
      • No url, no display
    • Code, verse, preformat

 

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