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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)

Pages

At first glance, pages look very similar to posts. Both pages and posts have a title and a content area in which we can write extended text. However, pages are handled quite differently from posts. First of all, pages don't have categories or tags (pages don't need to be categorized, since on most websites, there are a lot fewer pages than posts). Moreover, posts belong to your blog and are meant to be a part of an ongoing, expanding section of your website. Posts are added regularly, whereas pages are more static and aren't generally expected to change that much.

In short, I would advise you to think of pages as pieces of static content, and posts as a series of articles published in a timely manner. In other words, pages are meant to hold content that is equally up to date, no matter when someone reads them. For instance, the things that people publish via...