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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)

Summary

This chapter was part two of our non-blog website journey with WordPress. I hope you enjoyed the material. Here, you went through the process of setting up video blogs, photo blogs, e-commerce sites, and social networks. Along the way, you took a closer look at some interesting plugins and their functionalities, just to make your life easier as a WordPress developer. Finally, you created a custom post type and a corresponding custom taxonomy.

I believe that, at this point, you are well-equipped to work with WordPress and use it to build your next great website! WordPress is a top-notch CMS that has matured tremendously over the years. The WordPress admin panel is designed to be user-friendly and is continuously being improved. The code that underlies WordPress is robust and is the creation of a large community of dedicated developers. Additionally, WordPress functionality...