Wordpress for Dummies

namran — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:49:22 +0000

Woohoo.. I can’t believe it..

On saturday 20 June 2009, I went to Public Library of Malaysia (PNM).. near Jalan Tun Razak, right in front of IJN (National Heart Institute).
While walking pass the “Aras 3″.. there is a corner for “Newly arrived book”..

Then browsing a bit, I bumped into this book. “Wordpress for Dummies”..

Due to curiousness , I managed to read from page 1 till the end .. within less 2hours . hahhaa.. quite fast.

Hmm.. some point that I would able to recall till this moment are :

1. It talk about what is WordPress , with assumption that the reader are :
i. computer iterate.
ii. know what is e-mail and how to read/write , communicate with it.
iii. know how to surf the net and also reading others blog .

2. First it started with some introduction to wordpress, how did she jumped from Moveable Type to wordpress..
~ the reason is .. because Moveable Type started to charge something to its user ..while wordpress remain free.. till today.

3. Wordpress is provided by 3 major .. wordpress.com , wordpress.org , and..can’t remember the last one.

4. Then he talk about , what is in the Dashboard, how to post a posting.. (basically just three step , 1. Click Add new post , 2. enter your title and text, 3. Click publish button.. and that’s it.. hahaahaaha 8-))

5. then she also talk about some SEO related thing into excerpt part.. bla..bla.. and also about themes.
~ then only I know the usage of

in themes so that.. it can place the content of the post within the first 100 character of the page source code.yet displaying the link nicely on top, right, left or what so ever.. because.. crawler tend to ingest the first 100 character of the page better for its usage of Description, keyword and whatsoever.. Hmm… here she also mentioned where to get the professional designer for themes.. also the 5 important part of the themes if want to develop own unique themes..

Mandatory PHP files

 i. header.php
ii. footer.php
iii. style.css
iv. function.php
v. single.php

and few others .

Additional PHP files

 vi. 404.php
vii. search.php
viii. page.php
ix. index.php

and also mentioning about some available function in wordpress to be used such as :

get_info ('url');
get_info ('desc');

Hmm…

6. She also then write about the plugin.. how to use it .
basically just :
i. download the plugin zipped file.
ii. upload it into wp-content/plugins
iii. extract the plugin in there.
iv. login into blog administration page.
v. activate the plugin.

that’s it…

and she also listed out the “most useful” plugin that she prefer, among others that i can remember are :
i. mobile plugin . (which render your blog into phone nicely.) ~ i was kinda like this idea.. until I did some analysis with
Google Analytic , just to realized there is only 1 visitor using iPhone , and another one (once visited) via Android.
the rest of my blog visitor are just normal pc user with
(either windows/linux + firefox + 1024×800 screen resolution + and some sort of less DSL-like speed. )

ii. Ajax Comment edit ~ allow user to edit their own comment after published.

iii. Related post. ~ i am using Yet Another related Post

iv. Share this. ~ i removed this, because.. if just taking more resource than usage.

v. Photoblog ~ Hmm..

i think few others that might not really my interest..
but weirdly she missed out the “All-in-One SEO pack”.. *sigh*

7. She also listed out the categories usage.

8. Tag usage.

9. then she pointing to some Multi-User blog feature.. usage.. ~ which is I don’t really understand what is Wordpress MU.

10. She also write about the type of blog :
i. professional blog (paid by advertiser to write something about their product or so..)
ii. commercial blog. (to show off their product ..bla..bla)
iv. citizen/netizen blog (personal experience ..bla..bla.)
vi. technical blog (pointing to Microsoft developer blog via MSNBC..hahahaha..)
vii. splog (spammer blog.. no content but heavily bombarded by keyword and content ‘copy-pasted’ from others source.
~ provide nothing useful ~
but trick customer to click into their link and getting paid for nothing..~)

11. she also talk about how to setup own hosting with wordpress..
starting with domain name.. wordpress.com thingy, blogspot..
how to import from old blog .. hosted at blogspot, movable, cleartype.. and many other of which i don’t really care.

12. she also did mentioned about the permalink, to use .htaccess and all..
but nothing ~ not even single word talk about how to optimize it.. with gzip of anything at that level ~

Hmm…

p/s : this reminded me to a one question ,
if you had just received a TV hi-fi set for home entertainment , what would you do first ?
a. read through all the manual ,understand it bla..bla.., then only started to unpack,and start connect thing.until it works.
b. just unpack first, try to connect all the stuff with confident(adventurous spirit) of able to figure out how it is should be connected.
Only at the stuck time only refer to manual for only whatever necessary to get it work, didn’t bother to read every single word in manual.

Kinokuniya KLCC

HawkEYE — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:29:12 +0000

I bumped into Kinokuniya @ KLCC last nite..
right after the PC Fair trip..

just wandering around and see if got interesting book to read there..

at the first glance seem the same as MPH..
but when getting into smaller section and really want to read a book..

turn out a lot of book are still wrapped up..
and most of the book are come with just one pair..
both of them still in their plastic wrap..

this would be different story compared to MPH..which sometime can see up to 5-10 same book at the shelf.. and at least one or least are already opened.. which is easier to review.. hehehe..

but nevertheless.. I found one book that would be interesting to read..

the title is “How to Talk Your Way to the Top” if not mistaken..

At first was just kinda flipping the book..
but the content seem to put real-life comparison on how the way
we say thing actually can drive the different response from the audience..
basically the “Yes” and “No”..

how to properly talk to the boss.. and talk as a boss to the co-worker
in progress meeting without hurting sub-ordinate motivation..
but yet pushing the team forward..

its also talk about the different between theory X and theory Y..

which theory X believer suggest that..everyone must be pushed hard and coerce with force ..
forcing everyone to the limit or edge to get the full potential out of everyone..

while theory Y suggest .. everyone have their own self-esteem..and self-motivation.. you may just have to show them what is worth to be doing..and they will find the own motivation to get it done… without the need of special or silver bullet to get thing moving..

well.. and many more were touched and with the example of the conversation or direct order from a CEO to their co-worker ..

also from manager to their sub-ordinates.. and saying the bad thing in the right way.. attacking the problem instead of the person.. all stuff like that..
it is not that thick at all.. I can even finish that in less than an hour.. hehehe..

only managed to snap one part of the book..
here it is..

the last row of right column in the table :

“Proverb: It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness..”
don’t know what went wrong..Unfortunately i forgot to snap the cover for the book though…haha..

then i was just wandering around the “Programming Section”..
and .. noticed the book at the shelf.(kinda expecting latest books)
..still VB Basic.. “.NET” ..”COBOL” tend to fulfill the shelf..

that is so old technology ..folk… except the part of “Silverlight”.. that was so last year.. which the programmer have yet to decide whether to embrace version “1.0″ or “2.0″?
which is non-backward compatibility.. hahahaha

just wondering where is review about “SCALA” [scala-lang.org] technology related book ..?

until I found this one..

but unfortunately ..both book..are still in plastic wrap.. * didn’t bother to ask the librarian to unwrap..*..
get back home.. search and found the online version[wikipedia.org] instead.. how nice..

p/s : next time read more book even though if girlfriend is not on “attack- mode”,okay?

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Wordpress for Dummies

Kinokuniya KLCC