To help you get the most from WordPress For Writers, I’ve included extra resources in the book that you can use to find out more about WordPress and author websites.
This includes links to more detailed information and guides to specific topics, and screen grabs of the processes I outline in the book.
This page will take you to all of the resources in the book. It includes images and links.
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Before We Begin
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Part 2: Why WordPress?
Chapter 2: Benefits of WordPress
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Chapter 3: WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
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Part 3: WordPress.com
Chapter 4: Creating a WordPress.com site
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Chapter 5: Creating Your First Content
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Chapter 6: Getting Your Site Looking Pretty: Themes
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- The top 5 WordPress.com themes
- How to Use the Free Shoreditch WordPress Theme to Link to Your Landing Page
- WordPress.com themes with clickable header images
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Chapter 7: Adding Extra Whizziness: Bonus Features
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Chapter 8: Me.com: Using Your Own Domain
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Part 4: Self-hosted WordPress
Chapter 9: Getting Started: Hosting and Domains
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Chapter 10: Installing WordPress: Easier Than You Think
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Chapter 11: The WordPress Dashboard
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Chapter 12: Creating Your First Content
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Chapter 13: Branding Your Site with A Theme
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Chapter 15: Adding the Top Five Author Plugins
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Chapter 16: Love WordPress.com? Have The Best of Both Worlds with Jetpack
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Part 5: Creating Content For Your Site
Chapter 17: Content Marketing with WordPress
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- Kristine Katherine Rusch website
- Heide Goody & Iain Grant website
- The Wide Indie Author
- Author interviews
Chapter 18: WordPress Content Types: Posts, Pages and More
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Chapter 19: Switching from Another Platform? Here’s how to migrate your content
- Migrating from Medium
- Migrating from Tumblr to WordPress.com
- Migrating from Tumblr to WordPress.org
- Setting up RSS in Wix
Chapter 20: Creating Content with Blocks
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Chapter 21: Tell the World About Yourself with Pages
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Chapter 22: Keep Your Fans Updated With Posts
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Chapter 23: Images, Video, Downloads and More: Enhance Your Site with Media
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Chapter 24: Don’t Keep It to Yourself: Sharing Content
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Chapter 25: Search Engine Optimization
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Chapter 26: Content Strategy
Poor chapter 26 has no links or images. But she’s quite happy that way, she likes her own company.
Part 6: Newsletter Signups
Chapter 27: The Importance of Newsletter Signups
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Chapter 28: Newsletter Options
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Chapter 29: Using WordPress.com for Newsletter Signups
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Chapter 30: Installing and Configuring a Mailing List Plugin
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Part 7: Ker-ching! Selling Books From Your Website
Chapter 31: Selling Books From Your Site
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Part 8: Engaging With Your Readers
Chapters 32 to 34 have decided they don’t want to talk to the Internet as they’re scared of being taken over by cat memes. So that takes us to…
Part 9: Site Housekeeping
Chapter 35: Keeping Your Site Backed Up
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Chapter 36: Under Lock and Key: Site Security
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