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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition - Sixth Edition

By : Karol Król
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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)

E-commerce stores

E-commerce stores, in general, are websites where anyone can browse through a number of products and then use a shopping cart to make a purchase. Also, most e-commerce stores offer some kind of online payment integration, which allows every visitor to make and complete a purchase quickly. Additionally, sometimes there's even a backend inventory management system (an online warehouse of sorts) to make backend business management easier and integrated with the website.

Is WordPress a good platform for an e-commerce store?

The best thing about e-commerce is that you can actually launch a fully functional online store with WordPress. This, in my opinion, is simply incredible. As a former website developer...