Microsoft :We have no arrangements to present a Xbox One without Kinect

As per another report, Microsoft has no arrangements on discharging a Xbox One support without anyone else present. Rather, Microsoft "accepts" in the Kinect and will be putting forth it with the Xbox One amusement reassure in November for a sticker of $499. Those wishing to buy the Xbox One without anyone else present ought not keep their trusts up. We have faith in Kinect and the quality it carries to both amusements and amusement, and accept $499 is an incredible worth for what purchasers get with their Xbox One," a Microsoft agent expressed....

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Google has a different set-top T

We heard reports that Google was finalizing another set-top box, however when the Chromecast was reported, the unanticipated supposition was that this was the unit. Evidently there is an additional mechanism in the pipeline, however shockingly we don't know whether it will ever turn out. It was really alluded to as a "silly" set-top box a few months back. The Wall Street Journal is presently reporting that Google truly demonstrated the model in private again at CES 2013. It was fueled by Android and demoed by Andy Rubin. It even had a motion...

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Content

The first pillar of my daily action on the Web is content. Although the Web has seen a growing shift away from content to community, I still believethat content is king. Communities based around common interests fall flat unless they have the content there for people to gravitate around. Facebook groups, for example, dominate because of the wealth of content they offer: the posts, links, videos, and other media people create within that group. Without the content, the group wouldn’t exi...

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Using the tag for images

When you use the WordPress image uploader to include an image in yourpost or page, a Description text box appears, in which you can enter adescription of the image. (We cover using the WordPress image uploaderin detail in Book IV, Chapter 3.) This text automatically becomes what’sreferred to as the <ALT> tag.The <ALT> tag’s real purpose is to provide a description of the image forpeople who, for some reason or another, can’t actually see the image. In atext-based browser that doesn’t display images, for example, visitors see thedescription,...

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Creating categories that attract search engines

One little-known SEO tip for WordPress users: The names you give thecategories you create for your blog provide rich keywords that attractsearch engines like bees to honey. A few services — Technorati (http://technorati.com) being one of the biggest — treat categories in WordPress like tags. These services use those categories to classify recent blog posts on any given topic. The names you give your categories in WordPress can serve as topic tags for Technorati and similar services.Search engines also see your categories as keywords that are relevant...

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Writing content with readers in mind

When you write your posts and pages, and want to make sure that your con-tent appears in the first page of search results so that people will find yoursite, you need to keep those people in mind when you’re composing thecontent.When search engines visit your site to crawl through your content, theydon’t see how nicely you’ve designed your site. They’re looking for words — which they’re grabbing to include in their databases. You, the site owner, want to make sure that your posts and pages use the words and phrases that you want to include in search...

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Planting keywords in your Web site

If you’re interested in a higher ranking for your site, we strongly recommend using custom permalinks. By using custom permalinks, you’re automatically inserting keywords into the URLs of your posts and pages, letting searchengines include those posts and pages in their databases of information on those topics. If a provider that has the Apache mod_rewrite module enabled hosts your site, you can use the custom permalink structure for your WordPress-powered site.Keywords are the first step on your journey toward great search engineresults. Search...

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Optimizing Your WordPress Blog

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of preparing your site tomake it as easy as possible for the major search engines to crawl and cacheyour data in their systems so that your site appears as high as possible inthe search returns. Book V contains more information on search engine opti-mization, as well as marketing your blog and tracking its presence in searchengines and social media by using analytics. This section gives you a briefintroduction to SEO practices with WordPress, and from here, you can moveon to Book V to take a real...

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Working with Custom Post Types

A new feature in WordPress (new as of version 3.0) is a feature calledcustom post types. This feature allows you, the site owner, to create different content types for your WordPress site that give you more creative control over how different types of content are entered, published, and displayed on your WordPress Web site.Personally, we wish WordPress had called this feature custom content types so that people didn’t incorrectly think that custom post types pertain to posts only. Custom post types aren’t really the posts that you know as blog...

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Custom Styles for Sticky, Category, and Tag Posts

The method for putting a very basic WordPresstheme together, which includes a Main Index template that uses theWordPress Loop. You can use a custom tag to display custom styles forsticky posts, categories, and tags on your blog. That special tag looks likethis:<div <?php post_class() ?> id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>The post_class() section is the coolest part of the template. This tem-plate tag tells WordPress to insert specific HTML markup in your templatethat allows you to use CSS to make custom styles for sticky posts, catego-ries,...

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Comprehension the Framework Requirements

When you can begin blogging with Wordpress, you need to set up your base camp. Doing so includes more than basically downloading andinstating the Wordpress programming. You additionally need to create your area (your web journal location) and your Web hosting administration (the place that houses your website). In spite of the fact that you at first download your Wordpress programming onto your hard drive, you instate it on a Web host.Getting a Web server and introducing programming on it is something you mayas of recently have done on your site;...

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The Prevalent Provision of Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader, the  prevalent provision  for review Pdf records crosswise over stages and gadgets is presently ready in the Windows Phone Store for all the Windows Phone 8 clients.The official Adobe Reader for Windows Phone permits you to gain entrance to an extensive variety of Pdf sorts incorporating the watchword secured reports. The application gives you a chance to view, open and inquiry Pdf records and gives you a chance to zoom in on content or pictures.The route all through the Pdf substance is smooth and you can utilize the...

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Using Sidebar Templates

You can create separate sidebar templates for different pages of your site byusing a simple include statement. When you write an include statement,you’re simply telling WordPress that you want it to include a specific file ona specific page.The code that pulls the usual Sidebar template (sidebar.php) into all theother templates, such as the Main Index template (index.php), looks likethis:<?php get_sidebar(); ?>What if you create a page and want to use a sidebar that has different infor-mation from what you have in the Sidebar template (sidebar.php)?...

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Adding the tag

When you have the category ID number in hand, you’re ready to add the <query_post> tag to your template.Here are two parameters that you can use with the <query_posts> tag:✦ showposts=X: This parameter tells WordPress how many posts youwant to display. If you want to display only three posts, enter show-posts=3.✦ cat=X: This parameter tells WordPress that you want to pull posts fromthe category with this specific ID number. If the ID category is 40, entercat=40.Follow these steps to add the <query_post> tag to your template:1....

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Finding the category ID number

You can’t easily find the unique ID number for a category unless you know where to look. To locate it, follow these steps:1. Click Categories in the Posts drop-down list.The Categories page opens.2. Hover your mouse over the name of the category for which you needthe ID number.The category ID number appears in the status bar of your browser.Figure 6-5 shows the category ID in a browser’s status bar. (MozillaFirefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari have similar status bars.) The last part of the URL displayed in the status bar is tag_ID=1, which means...

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Pulling in Content from a Single Category

WordPress makes it possible to pull in very specific types of content on yourWeb site through the <query_posts> template tag. If you place this tem-plate tag before The Loop (see Book VI), it lets you specify which categoryyou want to pull information from. If you have a category called WordPressand you want to display the last three posts from that category — on your front page, in your blog sidebar, or somewhere else on your site — you can use this template tag.The <query_posts> template tag has several parameters that let you dis-play...

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Creating a Template for Each Post Category

You don’t have to limit yourself to creating a static-page template for yoursite. You can use specific templates for the categories you’ve created onyour blog (which we talk about in Book III, Chapter 7) and create unique sec-tions for your site, as Lisa did (with an espresso chaser, of course).Figure 6-4 shows Lisa’s design portfolio. Design Portfolio is the name of a category that she created in the WordPress Dashboard. Instead of using a static page for the display of her portfolio, she used a category template to handle the display of all posts...

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Creating Different Page Views Using WordPress Templates

The Add New Page page opens, where you can write a new post to your WordPress blog.1. Click Add New in the Pages drop-down list.2. Type the title in the Title text box and the page content in the largetext box.3. Select the page template from the Page Template drop-down list.By default, the Page Template drop-down list in the Attributes module appears on the right side of the page. You can reposition the modules on this page; see Book III, Chapter 2 for more information.4. Click the Publish button to save and publish the page to your site.Figure...

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How to Create a Template

To use a page template, you have to create one. You can create this file in a text-editor program, such as Notepad. (To see how to create a template, flip over to Book VI, which gives you extensive information on WordPress templates and themes.) To create an About page, for example, you can save the template with the name about.php.When you have your template created, follow these steps to make it part of WordPress:1. Upload the template file to your WordPress theme folder.You can find that folder on your Web server in /wp-content/themes.2. Log...

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Using WordPress Templates

As we explain on the previous posts , a static page contains content thatdoesn’t appear on the blog page, but as a separate page within your site.You can have numerous static pages on your site, and each page can havea different design, based on the template you create. (Flip to Book VI to find out all about choosing and using templates on your site.) You can create several static-page templates and assign them to specific pages within your site by adding code to the top of the static-page templates.Here’s the code that appears at the top of the...

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Exploring Different Uses for Custom Fields

In this chapter, we use the example of adding your current mood to yourblog posts by using Custom Fields. But you can use Custom Fields to defineall sorts of different data on your posts and pages; you’re limited only byyour imagination when it comes to what kind of data you want to include.Obviously, we can’t cover every possible use for Custom Fields, but we can give you some ideas that you may want to try out on your own site — at the very least, you can implement some of these ideas just to get yourself into the flow of using Custom Fields,...

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Getting WordPress to check for your Custom Field

The previous sections show you how to add the necessary code to yourtemplate file to display your Custom Field; however, what if you want topublish a post on which you don’t want the mood Custom Field to appear?If you leave your template file as you set it up by following the steps in theprevious sections, even if you don’t add the mood Custom Field, your blogpost displays My Current Mood is: — without a mood because you didn’tdefine one.But you can easily make WordPress check first to see whether the CustomField is added. If it finds the Custom...

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Entering the code in the template file

So that you can see how to enter the code in your template file, we usethe default WordPress theme called Twenty Ten. If you’re using a differenttheme (and you can find thousands of different WordPress themes avail-able), then you need to adapt these instructions to your particular theme.If you really want to follow along in this chapter, activate the Twenty Tentheme on your site, for now, just so that you can follow along and know thatyou’re seeing the same code in the places we describe (you can find informa-tion on the Twenty Ten theme and how...

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Adding Custom Fields to Your Template File

If you followed along in theprevious sections and added the mood CustomField to your own site, notice that the data doesn’t appear on your site theway it does on Lisa’s. To get the data to display properly, you must open thetemplate files and dig into the code a little bit. If the idea of digging into thecode of your template files intimidates you, you can put this section asideand read up on WordPress themes, template files, and template tags inBook VI.You can add Custom Fields, in several ways, to your templates in order todisplay the output...

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Exploring the Custom Fields Interface

The Custom Fields module appears on both the Write Post and Write Page (See Book IV, Chapters 2 and 3) pages in the WordPress Dashboard, below the Post text box.The Custom Fields module has two different text boxes:✦ Name: Also known as the Key, you give this name to the Custom Fieldyou’re planning to use. The Name needs to be unique: It’s used in thetemplate tag that you can read about in the section “Adding CustomFields to Your Template File,” later in this chapter. In Figure 5-2, you cansee that Lisa’s Custom Field has the name mood.✦ Value:...

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Understanding Custom Fields

A WordPress template contains static pieces of data that you can count onto appear on your site. These static items include elements such as the title,the content, the date, and so on. But what if you want more? Say you write aweekly book-review post on your site and want to include a listing of recentreviews and accompanying thumbnails of the books; you can, through theuse of Custom Fields, without having to retype the list each time you do areview. You can add literally thousands of auto-formatted pieces of data like this (such as book reviews...

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Keeping Media Files Organized

If you’ve been running your blog for any length of time, you can easily forgetwhat files you’ve uploaded by using the WordPress uploader. Lisa used tohave to log in to her Web server via FTP and view the Uploads folder to seewhat she had in there.Now, the WordPress Media Library allows you to conveniently and easily discover which files are in your Uploads folder.To find an image, video, or audio file you’ve already uploaded by using the file uploader and to use that file in a new post, follow these steps:1. Click the Upload Media icon to open...

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Podcasting with WordPress

As we explain in the introduction to this chapter, to podcast, the Web site owner provides regular episodes of an audio show that visitors can download to their computer and listen to on their favorite audio player. Think of podcasting as a weekly radio show that you tune into, except that it’s hosted on the Internet, rather than on a radio station.In the sidebar “WordPress video and audio plugins” in this chapter, we mentiona few plugins that allow you to more easily insert audio files in your WordPressposts and pages — however, a few plugins...

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Inserting Audio Files into Your Blog Posts

Audio files can be music files or voice recordings, such as recordings of you speaking to your readers. These files add a nice personal touch to your blog. You can easily share audio files on your blog by using the Upload Audio feature in WordPress. After you insert an audio file in a blog post, your readers can listen to it on their computers, or download it onto an MP3 player and listen to it on their drives to work, if they want.Click the Add Audio icon on the Edit Post or Add New Post page, and then follow these steps to upload an audio file...

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Adding video from your computer

To upload and post to your blog a video from your computer, click the AddVideo icon on the Edit Post or Add New Post page. Then follow these steps:1. Click the Choose Files to Upload button.An Open dialog box appears.2. Select the video file that you want to upload and click Open (or simplydouble-click the filename).The file uploader window in WordPress appears, which shows a progress bar while your video uploads. When the upload is complete, a dialog box that contains several options opens.3. Type a title for the file in the Title text box.4....

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Adding video from the Web

To add video from the Web, click the Add Video icon, then click the FromURL tab, shown in Figure 4-1, on the Add Video pop-up window and followthese steps:1. Type the URL (Internet address) of the video in the Video URL text box.Type the full URL, including the http:// and www portion of theaddress. Video providers, such as YouTube, usually list the direct links for the video files on their sites; you can copy and paste one of those links into the Video URL text box.2. (Optional) Type the title of the video in the Title text box.Giving a title...

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Inserting Video Files into Your Blog Posts

Whether you’re producing your own videos for publication or embedding other people’s videos, placing a video file in a blog post has never been easier with WordPress.Check out a good example of a video blog at http://1938media.com.Loren Feldman and his team produce video for the Web and for mobiledevices.Several video galleries on the Web today allow you to add videos to blogposts — Google’s YouTube service (www.youtube.com) is a good exampleof a third-party video service that allows you to share their vide...

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Inserting Images into Your Blog Posts

 • Link URL: If you want the image linked to a URL, type that URL inthis text box. Alternately, select the appropriate option button todetermine where your readers go when they click the image youuploaded: Selecting None means the image isn’t clickable, File URLdirects readers through to the image itself, and Post URL directsreaders through to the post in which the image appears.• Alignment: Select None, Left, Center, or Right. (See Table 3-1, later inthis chapter, for styling information regarding image alignment.)• Size: Select Thumbnail,...

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Adding an image from your computer

To add an image from your own hard drive after you click the Add an Image icon, follow these steps:1. Click the From Computer tab, and then click the Select Files button.A dialog box, from which you can select an image (or multiple images) from your hard drive, opens.2. Select your image(s), and then click Open.The image is uploaded from your computer to your Web server.WordPress displays a progress bar on the upload and displays an ImageOptions window when the upload is finished.3. Edit the details for the image(s) by clicking the Show link that...

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Adding an image from the Web

To add an image from the Web after you click the Add an Image icon, follow these steps:1. Click the From URL tab in the Add an Image window.The Add Media File from URL window opens.2. Type the URL (Internet address) of the image in the Image URL textbox.Type the full URL, including the http:// and www portion of theaddress. You can easily find the URL of any image on the Web by rightclicking (PC) or Command-clicking (Mac), and then selecting Properties from the pop-up menu that appears.3. Type a title for the image in the Image Title text box.4....

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Inserting Images into Your Blog Posts

You can add images to a post pretty easily by using the WordPress imageuploader. Jump right in and give it a go by clicking the Upload an Image iconon the Add New Post page. The Add an Image window that appears lets youchoose images from your hard drive or from a location on the Web (seeFigure 3-1).The interface that WordPress uses for file uploads is based on Adobe Flash.Flash is a specific set of multimedia technologies programmed to handlemedia files on the Web. Some browsers and operating systems aren’t config-ured to handle Flash-based applications....

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Adding a Blog to Your Web Site

If you want a blog on your site but don’t want to display the blog on the front page, you can add one from the WordPress Dashboard. To create the blog for your site, first follow these steps:1. Click Add New link in the Pages drop-down list.The page where you can write a new post to your WordPress blogopens.2. Type Blog in the Title text box.The page slug is automatically set to /blog. (Read more about slugs in Book III, Chapter 3.)3. Leave the Page Content text box blank.4. Click the Publish button.The page is saved to your database and published...

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Assigning a static page as the front page

After you create the page you want to use for the front page of your web site, tell WordPress that you want the static page to serve as the front page of your site. Follow these steps:1. Click Reading in the Settings drop-down list to display the ReadingSettings page.2. In the Front Page Displays section, select the A Static Page radiobutton.3. From the Front Page drop-down list, select the static page that youwant to serve as your front page.In Figure 2-4, we chose to display a static page, and the Welcome page is the one we want to appear on...

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Creating the Front Page of Your Web Site

✦ Custom Fields: Custom fields add extra data to your page, and you canfully configure them. You can read more about the Custom Fields featurein WordPress in Book IV, Chapter 5.✦ Discussion: Decide whether to let readers submit comments through thecomment system by selecting or deselecting the Allow Comments textbox. By default, the box is checked; uncheck it to disallow comments onthis page.Typically, you don’t see a lot of static pages that have the Commentsfeature enabled because pages offer static content that doesn’t generallylend itself to...

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Creating the static page

To have a static page appear on the front page of your site, you need to create that page. Follow these steps:1. Click Add New in the Pages drop-down list.The Add New Page page opens, where you can write a new page for your WordPress blog, as shown in Figure 2-3.2. In the Title text box, type a title for the page.3. Type the content of your page in the large text box.4. Set the options for this page.We explain the options on this page in the following section.5. Click the Publish button.The page is saved to your database and published to your WordPresssite...

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Creating the Front Page of Your Web Site

For the most part, when you visit a blog powered by WordPress, the blogappears on the main page. Lisa’s personal blog at http://lisasabin-wilson.com, powered by WordPress (of course), shows her latest blogposts on the front page, along with links to the post archives (by monthor by category).But the front page of Lisa’s business site at http://ewebscapes.com, alsopowered by WordPress, contains no blog and displays no blog posts (seeInstead, it displays the contents of a static page that Lisa cre-ated in the WordPress Dashboard. This static page...

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Creating the Front Page of Your Web Site

 With the page feature, you can create an unlimited amount of static pages separate from your blog posts. People commonly use this feature to create About Me or Contact Me pages, among other things. Table 2-1 illustrates the differences between posts and pages by showing you the different ways the WordPress platform handles them.Differences between a Post and a PageWordPress Options                             Page                        ...

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Understanding the Difference between Posts and Pages

In this post, we go into great detail about how WordPress archivesyour published content on your site by filing it under categories and tags, aswell as by date (year/month/day/time of day), and through the use of pages,rather than posts.Pages, in WordPress, are different from posts because they don’t getarchived the way your blog posts/articles do: They aren’t categorized ortagged, don’t appear in your listing of recent blog posts or date archives,and aren’t syndicated in the RSS feeds available on your site — because con-tent within pages generally...

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Arranging post modules

Aside from being able to make the Post text box bigger (or smaller), as wediscuss in the section “Creating Your Own Workspace for Writing,” earlier inthis chapter, you can’t edit the Post text box module. You can configure allother modules on the Add New Post page (and the Edit Post page); you canremove them (in the Screen Options panel, as we discuss in the precedingsection), expand and collapse them, and drag them around to place them ina different spot on your screen.Collapse, or close, any of the modules by hovering your mouse over themodule...

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Adjusting screen options

Several items appear on the Add New Post page, as described in the section, “Composing Your Blog Post,” earlier in this chapter. You may not use all these items, and in fact, you may find that simply removing them from the Add New Post page (and the Edit Post page) makes writing your posts easier and more efficient. To remove an item, follow these steps:2. Select or deselect items below the Show on Screen heading.Select an item by placing a check mark in the check box to the left of its name; deselect it by removing the check mark. Selected items...

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Creating Your Own Workspace for Writing

1. Click the Screen Options tab at the top of the screen.The Screen Options panel drops down,2. When you find the post you need, click its title.Alternatively, you can click the Edit link that appears below the posttitle.The Edit Post window opens. In this window, you can edit the post and/ or any of its options.If you need to edit only the post options, click the Quick Edit link. Adrop-down Quick Edit menu appears, displaying the post options thatyou can configure, such as the title, status, password, categories, tags,comments, and timestamp....

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Being your own editor

While we write this book, we have editors looking over our shoulders,making recommendations, correcting typos and grammatical errors, andhelping us by telling us when we get too long winded. You, on the otherhand, are not so lucky! You’re your own editor and have full control of what you write, when you write it, and how you write it. You can always go back and edit previous posts to correct typos, grammatical errors, and other mistakes by following these steps:1. Find the post that you want to edit by clicking Posts in the Posts drop- Book IVdown...

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Refining Your Post Options

This option is otherwise known as a sticky post. Typically, posts aredisplayed in chronological order on your blog, displaying the mostrecent post on top. If you make a post sticky, it remains at the very top,no matter how many other posts you make after it. When you wantto unstick the post, deselect the Stick This Post to the Front Pagecheck box.✦ Password Protected: By assigning a password to a post, you can publisha post to your blog that only you can see. You can also share the postpassword with a friend, who can see the content of the post...

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Publishing your post

After you give your new post a title; write the content of your new blog post; maybe add an image or other type of media file to your blog post (see Book IV, Chapter 4); and configure the tags, categories, and other options, now the question is: Publish? Or not to publish (yet)?WordPress gives you three options for saving or publishing your post whenyou’re done writing it. The Publish module is located on the right side ofthe Add New (or Edit) Post page. Just click the title of the Publish module toexpand the settings you need. Figure 1-6 shows...

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Refining Your Post Options

After you write the post, you can choose a few extra options before youpublish it for the entire world to see. These settings apply to the post you’recurrently working on — not to any future or past posts. You can find theseoptions below and to the right of the Post text box (see Figure 1-4). Click thetitle of each option — the settings for that specific option expand.You can reposition the different post option modules on the Add New Post page to fit the way you use this page.Here are the options that appear below the Post text box:✦ Excerpt:...

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