Research Catalog

Title

Building online communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress / Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little and Jared W. Smith.

Author

Douglass, Robert T.

Publication

Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Little, Mike, 1962-
• Smith, Jared W

Series Statement

The expert's voice in open source

Uniform Title

Expert's voice in open source

Subject

• Web site development
• Web sites > Design
• World Wide Web
• phpBB (Computer program language)
• PHP (Computer program language)
• Drupal
• WordPress
• Blogs > Design
• Blogs

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1 Drupal -- Chapter 1 Introducing Drupal 3 -- What Is Drupal? 3 -- Who Should Use Drupal? 3 -- Installing Drupal 4 -- Creating Drupal Content 14 -- Touring Drupal's Features 16 -- Chapter 2 Configuring Drupal 21 -- Configuring Site Settings 21 -- Setting Up and Maintaining User Accounts 30 -- Using Modules 38 -- Using Blocks 39 -- Managing Content 42 -- Managing Comments 49 -- Configuring Themes 50 -- Using Categories 53 -- Chapter 3 Using the Drupal Core Modules 61 -- Aggregator Module 61 -- Archive Module 64 -- Block Module 65 -- Blog Module 65 -- BlogAPI Module 66 -- Book Module 67 -- Comment Module 70 -- Contact Module 70 -- Drupal Module 71 -- Filter Module 73 -- Forum Module 73 -- Help Module 75 -- Legacy Module 75 -- Locale Module 75 -- Menu Module 79 -- Node Module 83 -- Page and Story Modules 83 -- Path Module 83 -- Ping Module 85 -- Poll Module 85 -- Profile Module 86 -- Search Module 88 -- Statistics Module 89 -- System Module 90 -- Taxonomy Module 91 -- Throttle Module 91 -- Tracker Module 92 -- Upload Module 92 -- User Module 94 -- Watchdog Module 94 -- Chapter 4 Adding Contributed Modules 97 -- Getting Drupal Modules 97 -- TinyMCE Module 99 -- Image Module 107 -- Image Assist Module 109 -- Flexinode Module 114 -- Event Module 120 -- Location Module 128 -- Organic Groups Module 131 -- Spam Module 135 -- Database Administration Module 141 -- Developer Tools (Devel) Module 144 -- Chapter 5 Adding and Customizing Themes 149 -- Understanding Themes 149 -- Installing New Themes 154 -- Customizing Themes 155 -- Using Theme-Related Modules 181 -- Chapter 6 Maintaining Your Site 185 -- Scheduling Automated Tasks 185 -- Running Multiple Drupal Sites 190 -- Making Backups 200 -- Maintaining a Test Site 204 -- Updating Drupal 206 -- Getting Drupal Support 212 -- The Drupal Community 214 -- Part 2 phpBB -- Chapter 7 Introducing phpBB 219 -- The Basics of Running Your Own Forums 219 -- Enter phpBB 221 -- The Million-Dollar Question: Why Use phpBB? 222 -- phpBB's Feature Set 223 -- What We'll Accomplish 226 -- Looking Toward Olympus 227 -- Chapter 8 Installing and Configuring phpBB 231 -- Installing phpBB 231 -- Configuring phpBB 240 -- Touring the phpBB 3.0 Installer and Administration Panel 252 -- Chapter 9 Touring phpBB's Features 267 -- Reading and Posting to Forums 267 -- Creating User Profiles 273 -- Private Messaging with phpBB 278 -- Searching Forums 280 -- Grouping Users 282 -- Visiting Other Points of Interest 285 -- Touring phpBB 3.0 Feature Upgrades 286 -- Chapter 10 Securing and Maintaining phpBB 295 -- Implementing Security Strategies 295 -- Installing Updates 298 -- Mastering phpBB Permissions 303 -- Managing Registrations 307 -- Moderating Your Forums 310 -- Maintaining and Performance Tuning phpBB 314 -- Introducing phpBB 3.0 Security and Maintenance Enhancements 320 -- Chapter 11 Modifying phpBB 327 -- Installing Modifications 327 -- Creating Modifications 334 -- Looking Ahead to phpBB 3.0 Modifications 346 -- Chapter 12 Styling phpBB 347 -- Acquiring Themes 347 -- Creating and Modifying Themes 348 -- Installing and Using Themes 362 -- Touring phpBB 3.0 Templating Improvements 365 -- Part 3 WordPress -- Chapter 13 Introducing WordPress 369 -- A Brief History of Blogging 369 -- Weblog Software 371 -- Blogging-Related Terminology 373 -- Why WordPress? 375 -- Chapter 14 Installing and Configuring WordPress 379 -- Installing WordPress 379 -- Configuring WordPress 390 -- Making Your First Post 398 -- Chapter 15 Starting to Blog and Building Your Community 401 -- Using Basic Post Options 401 -- Using Advanced Post Editing Options 405 -- Adding Images to Your Posts 409 -- Managing Categories 413 -- Managing Comments 416 -- Adding Multiple Authors 419 -- Adding Blog Pages with RSS Feeds 423 -- Improving Your Site's Search Engine Visibility 428 -- Chapter 16 Changing the Look of Your Blog 433 -- Using Themes to Communicate with Your Audience 433 -- Selecting an Installed Theme 434 -- Adding New WordPress Themes 436 -- Modifying an Existing Theme 439 -- Chapter 17 Customizing Your Blog's Layout 461 -- Considering What Your Reader Is Doing 461 -- Changing the Layout 463 -- Chapter 18 Maintaining Your Blog 489 -- Backing Up and Restoring Your Database 489 -- Monitoring Storage Space and Bandwidth 496 -- Checking Your Links 501 -- Keeping Your Content Fresh 504 -- Maintaining Security 505.

ISBN

1590595629

OCLC

• 62866921
• SCSB-10345740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library