Installing WordPress
Setting Up a Free Blog on WordPress.com
Setting Up a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog
Installing WordPress Locally on A Mac
Installing WordPress Locally on A PC
Applications You May Use Along with WordPress

Touring the WordPress Interface
Viewing and Customizing the Dashboard
Touring the Admin Interface
The WordPress Codex and Online Forums

Setting Basic Blog Options
Setting up Your Profile
Setting General Options
Changing your Blog’s Theme
Exploring More Themes
Viewing the Theme Files
Using the WordPress Theme Directory
Ten Awesome WordPress Themes

Creating Posts
Writing a Post in the Visual Editor
Formatting and Previewing Posts
Inserting and Editing Hyperlinks
Using the Kitchen Sink Toolbar
Setting Post Publishing Options
Understanding Excerpts, Trackbacks, and Pingbacks

Additional Posting Techniques
Editing Published Posts
Adding a More Link to a Post
Creating and Editing Posts with the HTML Editor
Creating HTML Posts with Dreamweaver
Adjusting Writing Settings
Password Protecting A Post

Adding Media to Posts, Part One
Setting Media Options
Inserting Images Into Posts
Including an Image from a URL
Adding Images to the Media Library
Inserting Images from the Library
Editing Inserted Images
Editing Images in the HTML Editor
Using WordPress’s Image Editor
Preparing Images in Photoshop
Illustrator to Photoshop to WordPress Workflow
And Now on to Video

Adding Media to Posts, Part Two
Adding Video to a Post
Using Auto-Embed to Add Video
Adding Audio Files
Linking to PDFs and Other Types of Media
Managing Your Media

Working with Categories and Tags
Getting Started with Categories
Creating New Categories
Applying Categories to Posts
Setting the Default Category & A Fast Way for Creating New Categories
Applying Tags to Posts

Working with Pages
Understanding Pages Versus Posts
Creating A Simple Contact Page
Creating An HTML Contact Page
Setting your Blog’s Front Page
Controlling Page Order
Using Page Templates

Creating and Managing A Blogroll
Getting Started with Your Blogroll
Adding Links to the Blogroll
Editing Links
Creating Link Categories

Viewing Comments & Adding Users
Viewing Comments
Moderating Comments
Setting Discussion Options
Adding Additional Users
Understanding User Roles

Customizing Permalinks and RSS Feeds
Setting Your Blog’s Permalinks
Creating Custom Permalinks
Working with your blog’s RSS feeds

Extending Your Blog with Widgets and Plugins
Getting started with Widgets
Going Further with Widgets
Using Dreamweaver to Creating A Custom Widget
Adding A Twitter Widget to Your Blog
Now on to Plugins
Exploring The WordPress Plugin Directory
Installing and Configuring Plugins
Manually Installing plugins
Ten Killer WordPress Plugins to Explore
Adding Custom Widgets