Tìm Hiểu về Wordpress - part 19 potx

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Administration Tools
These plugins provide CMS-like functionality to the WordPress Admin area.
• WP-CMS Post Control
Provides complete control over the Write-Page and Write-Post areas of the
WordPress Admin. Enables you to hide unwanted items, disable the Flash
uploader, kill post revisions, and even add a personal message.
• WP-CMS
Transforms the Admin area to focus more on page creation and less on post
creation. Designed to simplify the whole process for your newbie clients. You
can even disable the blog functionality entirely.
• Flutter
Enables you to edit posts without leaving the post page and also provides
custom write panels that enable further publishing functionality.
• Supple Forms
Enables you to create custom write panels, as well as format and insert values
into posts using shortcodes and snippets of HTML.
• Custom Write Panel
Enables you to create additional write panels with customized input fields. Add
textboxes, checkboxes, radio-buttons, dropdown menus, and more.
User Role Management
• Members
Comprehensive user-, role-, and content-management plugin that was created
to make WordPress a more powerful CMS. Provides more control over your blog
with an extensive collection of component-based features.
• Role Scoper
Provides you the ability to specify different permissions levels for different
WordPress roles. Also provides options for implementing user groups.
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• Disclose-Secret
Enables you to hide specified posts from users unless they meet certain criteria.

• Page Restrict
Enables you to restrict specified pages to logged-in users.
Navigation
• WPML
Provides complete support for CMS-style navigation for your site. Includes
dropdown menus, breadcrumb trails, and sidebar navigation. The current
iteration of this plugin is actually much more full featured and helps turn sites
into multi-language sites, and all the navigational stuff is included.
• Breadcrumb NavXT
Enables you to customize navigational breadcrumb trails for your site. This
plugin provides everything you will need to create the perfect breadcrumb menu.
Ordering, Filtering, Limiting and Displaying Content
• AStickyPostOrderER
Enables you to customize post-display order for category views, archive views,
and even sitewide.
• Advanced Category Excluder
Provides advanced content separation and category management for
WordPress. Exclude any number of categories according to your needs. Also
provides control over feeds and search results.
• Custom Post Limits
Provides control over the number of posts that appear on the home page, in
various archive views, and in search results.
• Custom Query String (CQS)
The ultimate (and original) plugin for controlling the number of posts displayed
on just about any type of page view possible, including archives, months,
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categories, home page, search, and many more. For more information on CQS,
check out the popout on page 112.
eCommerce and Shopping Carts
• WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart

Displays an “Add to Cart” PayPal button to your posts and pages, shows the
contents of the cart, and even allows users to update/edit/delete any items.
• eShop
Provides shopping-cart functionality that includes customizable product listings,
multiple product options, advanced payment options, basic statistics, and more.
• WP e-Commerce
Provides an “elegant and easy to use fully featured shopping cart” that
claims to be the “most complete and powerful Shopping Plugin you will find
for Wordpress.”
• YAK for WordPress
Provides basic shopping-cart functionality that associates products with
blog posts.
• Quick Shop
Adds a sidebar widget that displays cart contents to the user and enables easy
item removal. Also enables you to easily add products to your posts and pages.
• Shopp
Full featured shopping cart transformation for WordPress. This is a paid
premium plugin, starting at $55.
Email Mailing List and Newsletter Plugins
• WP-Campaign-Monitor
Provides email newsletter and SMS functionality for WordPress. Enables users to
send campaigns, track results, and manage subscribers. Even includes a plug-n-
play sidebar widget.
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• PHPList Form Integration
Enables users to easily subscribe to your newsletter or RSS feed from any
page on your blog. Designed to work with PHPList, an excellent open-source
newsletter manager.
• WordPress Double Opt-In Manager Widget
Enables users to subscribe to your mailing list by way of a double opt-in method

that includes the email form and a confirmation email.
• MailChimp
MailChimp is a third-party email newsletter sending service. They have an
official plugin to help integrate with WordPress.
Language Translation
• WPML CMS
Transforms your WordPress-powered site into a “fully featured multilingual
content management system.”
• Sunday Morning
Not WordPress-specific, but a pretty interesting JavaScript method for
translating content on-the-fly, utilizing Google Translator
Comprehensive CMS Transformation
• Pods
Provides comprehensive CMS functionality for WordPress, enabling you
to create, manage, and display custom content types. Enables automatic
pagination, public-form filtering, access control, menu editing, and much more.
Miscellaneous CMS Plugins
• ProjectManager
Enables you to manage any number of projects with recurrent datasets. Great
for portrait systems, music and DVD collections, and just about anything else
imaginable.
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• WP-PostRatings
Enables users to rate your post content. Highly customizable. One of the best.
• TDO Mini Forms
Provides highly customizable forms that enables non-registered users to submit
their own posts and links to your site.
5.6.3 Using WordPress as a Forum
Although forum functionality is not currently built into the WordPress core,
implementing a forum on your site is easily accomplished with the help of these

awesome plugins.
• bbPress Forum
bbPress is simple, fast, and elegant forum software from the same people who
make WordPress. bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of
integration, and speed.
• WP-Forum
A simple discussion forum for WordPress that provides some basic forum
functionality. The author of this plugin provides free help via support forum
linked to from the plugin page.
Script and Style
Script & Style is a WordPress powered site that
features links to Design and Development related
articles. Links can be submitted by anybody via a
form powered by TDO Mini Forms
More Forum Plugins
Here are two more useful
forum plugins for WordPress:
Tal.ki Embeddable Forums
/>Zingiri Forum
/>Both include great features and
look like great forum solutions.
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• Simple:Press Forum, aka Simple Forum
A feature-rich forum plugin for WordPress that fully integrates into your
WordPress-powered site. Fully customizable and includes plenty of skins and
icons to get you started.
5.6.4 Integration with Third-Party Forum Applications
While some of these packages offer almost the same in terms of functionality as
the major stand-alone forum packages out there, many do not. If you want to
combine WordPress with a stand-alone, third-party forum application, here are

some good ways to go about doing it:
• Integrating phpBB with WordPress /> The phpBB forum application is widely used and heavily documented. There are
many plugins, extensions, and modifications available, and there is plenty of
documentation to help with implementation, customization and maintenance.
There are a couple of great ways to integrate phpBB with WordPress. The first
is WP-United which is free and easy to set up and includes
many options for complete customization.
Another great tool is the WP-PHPBB WordPress plugin
which provides simple integration of phpBB with WordPress. The only downside
to this plugin is that phpBB must use the same database as WordPress.
• Integrating Invision with WordPress /> The Invision IP.Board is a for-purchase community discussion forum that
provides many great features including a default theme, report center,
reputation system, friendly URLs, and much more.
One of the best ways to integrate IP.Board with WordPress is the InvisionBridge
Wordpress-IPB Bridge which combines login systems and
includes some useful options in the free version and extra options in the
paid version.
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• Integrating vBulletin with WordPress /> vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution used by many
industry-leading companies. Its key features include fast, efficient database
backend, template-driven interface, powerful search engine, language system,
custom user-fields, and much more.
Integrating vBulletin with WordPress is accomplished very easily with the
vBulletin plugin and the instructions available at vbulletin.org />u/156.
• Integrating SMF with WordPress /> The SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is a free, professional-grade forum software
package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
SMF uses a powerful, custom-made template engine that puts you in full control
of the message-board layout using unique server-side includes.
Features include advanced permission and user-management, multiple-
language support, built-in security features, multiple authentication options,

and tons more.
The easiest way to integrate SMF with WordPress is to use the WordPress SMF
Bridge plugin which combines login systems and enables
cross-posting of threads, display of SMF statistics, and other useful features.
5.6.5 Multiple Blogs with WordPress MU
Prior to WordPress 3.0, you could use a separate set of software called WordPress
MU to operate multiple blogs off the same single installation.
Now, with WordPress 3.0, this functionality is built right into the core software and
is called MultiSite. Features of WordPress MU include:
• All of the great functionality and features of regular WordPress installations
• Robust scaling to tens of millions of hits per day
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• Virtually unlimited numbers of users and blogs
• Advanced permissions systems enabling different permissions for different blogs
• Shares 99% of the same codebase as WordPress
To learn how to setup and use WordPress 3.0’s new MultiSite functionality, check
out Chapter 12.2.5 to get started.
But wait, there’s more…
Truly, there is no end to the ways that WordPress can be extended. In this chapter,
we have seen how to extend WordPress with plugins, theme files, custom
functions, and the advanced functionality available in WordPress itself. Yet even
with all of the possibilities explored thus far, there is still another powerful way
to extend your site’s potential. WordPress’ powerful content-syndication system
enables you to share your content with the farthest reaches of the Internet…
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hMAG is a great example of
how WordPress can be used
to build a site that trancendes
mere blogging. This is a fully
blown multi-author news and

membership based community
site loaded with content. Not to
mention very cleanly designed.

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When I am working on a problem, I
never think about beauty. I only think
about how to solve the problem. But
when I have finished, if the solution isn’t
beautiful, I know it is wrong.
– RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER