WordPress Power Toolkit
Programming
Book Details
Book Title
WordPress Power Toolkit
Author
Richard Mansfield
Publisher
Manning City: Shelter Island, NY
Publication Date
2025
ISBN
9781633437746
Number of Pages
370
Language
English
Format
File Size
7.1MB
Subject
Web-design
Table of Contents
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this book
- About the author
- About the cover illustration
- Chapter 1: AI and WordPress dominate the internet
- Why WordPress wins
- Why use artificial intelligence
- How to use artificial intelligence
- Which AI system should you use?
- Mastering AI prompting
- A 13-step program: Creating a great website with WordPress
- Chapter 2: Starting a website
- Choosing the right version of WordPress
- Signing up with a first-rate hosting service
- Visiting your backend
- Hiding your site while it’s under construction
- Saving your work
- Ensuring site security
- Automating backups
- Managing site access
- Chapter 3: Site-building preliminaries
- Focusing your site
- Specifying site goals
- Create a hierarchy
- Avoiding long-scroll
- Make good use of links
- Managing your menu
- Chapter 4: AI-powered writing
- Choosing the best typography
- Writing in the right style
- Making a great first impression
- Chapter 5: Adding functionality with plugins
- Installing the essential plugins
- Installing the best plugins
- Turn on auto-updating
- Avoid adding too many plugins
- Preventing plugin conflicts
- Adding Jetpack to your site
- Dealing with the EU cookie law
- Ensuring accessibility
- Adding a sidebar
- Creating your own plugins and widgets with AI
- Chapter 6: AI-assisted site
- Choosing an appropriate theme
- Use an up-to-date theme
- Avoid installing multiple themes
- Don’t modify theme code files
- Take advantage of the Appearance > Customize screen
- Consider the psychology of color
- Pay attention to layout
- Using the rule of thirds
- Analyzing site design with AI
- Chapter 7: Advanced design techniques
- Creating a contemporary design
- Understanding CSS styling
- Using the Inspector
- Mastering YellowPencil
- Understanding CSS scope
- Working with CSS classes
- CSS in Gutenberg
- Inpainting and outpainting
- Chapter 8: Mastering multimedia
- Displaying the right amount of media
- Avoiding inappropriate images, audio, or video
- Storing video on YouTube
- Using the right image sizes
- Positioning media effectively
- Providing accessibility
- Understanding permissions, attribution, and other legalities
- Using the Gutenberg media blocks
- Chapter 9: Using AI when interacting with your audience
- Blog defined: An overview
- GPT to the rescue: How to write for your blog
- Creating a custom GPT: AI-generated message titles
- Using categories and tags
- Hiding date stamps on blog posts
- Vetting incoming messages
- Using GPT’s custom instructions
- Understanding memory in GPT version 4o and later
- Promoting your blog
- Harvesting email addresses
- A fun AI IQ test
- Chapter 10: Making money online
- Nine ways to monetize a WordPress site
- The wrong way to monetize
- Choosing the right e-commerce plugin
- Any drawbacks?
- Be sure to use Secure Sockets Layer
- Using a good call to action
- Taking advantage of marketing
- The final checklist
- Chapter 11: AI and search engine optimization
- Learning new optimization tactics
- Using good keywords
- Employing Google Search Console
- Using the AIOSEO plugin
- Employing backlinks
- A checklist of blunders
- How AI affects SEO
- Chapter 12: Building an audience with AI
- The purchase funnel
- Understanding the elements of analytics
- Tracking options
- Four excellent analytics plugins
- AI as site critic
- Two AI heads are better than one
- Chapter 13: Resources: Where to go from here
- Exploring WordPress resources
- The end of human supremacy
- Understanding AI domains
- Resources for news on AI developments
- Going forward
- Setting things up
- Index