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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)

Adding and managing categories

Earlier in this chapter, you learned how to add a category quickly when adding a post. Now, let's talk about how to manage your categories in a bigger way. First, navigate to Posts | Categories in your wp-admin. You'll see the Categories page:

This is a useful page that combines the ability to add, edit, and review all of your categories. As you can see, any category that you've added via the Edit Post page is listed here. You can Edit, Quick Edit, or Delete any category by clicking on the appropriate link in the list.

If you add a category on this page, you can also choose its Slug. The slug is the short bit of text that shows up in the URL of your site if you have pretty permalinks enabled. If you don't choose a slug, WordPress will create one for you by taking the category name, reducing it to all lowercase, replacing spaces...