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.

Description

xxvii, 530 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends based on PHP and MySQL. Readers can quickly get up to speed on these online features with this informative resource authored by a team of experts.

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
• Internet

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