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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition - Sixth Edition

By : Karol Król
Book Image

WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition - Sixth Edition

By: Karol Król

Overview of this book

WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition is a practical guide for everyone who wants to start their journey as an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. It takes you step-by-step through the process of planning out and building your site, and offers loads of screenshots and examples along the way. It's also a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development. This book begins with the basics of WordPress, followed by the different components that you as a developer will need to use to work swiftly and efficiently. The book starts by introducing WordPress to new readers in this field. You are then shown how to set it up, implement a blog, and use plug-ins and widgets. You'll use themes to make any website look and feel better and more original. You also learn how to create your own themes and perform testing to ensure your website is bug-free. You will also acquire some idea of how to use WordPress for non-blog-like websites. By the end of the book, you will feel confident enough to design high-quality websites and will be familiar with the ins and outs of WordPress
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Managing users

To manage users, log in (as an administrator, of course) and navigate to Users. You'll see a list of your existing users, as seen in the following screenshot:

When we installed WordPress, it created only our first user (which is how we've been logging in all this time). So let's create a new user and assign that user the next most powerful role--editor. To do this, navigate to Users | Add New. You'll see the Add New User form as shown in the next screenshot:

In this form, only the Username and Email fields are required. The Password field is handled automatically. WordPress will generate a safe password on its own and then send it to the new user once it's done. You can also change Role from the default (Subscriber) to one of the other roles. In this case, I've selected Editor. Then, I clicked on the Add New User button. Apart from...