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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)

Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design

At this stage, you already know how versatile WordPress is when it comes to the range of designs you can have on your site--all because of themes. However, just getting a theme and using it as is perhaps isn't the most optimized approach. So in this chapter, we're going to take it up a notch, you'll learn how to customize your theme.

We'll start by discussing how to manage navigation menus and work with the basic layout customization features to further enhance the capabilities of your entire website. Then, we'll talk about widgets and how to use them to make your sidebars even more functional and reader-friendly. Lastly, we'll cover the topic of WordPress Customizer, and what it can do for your overall website presentation.