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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)

Menus

Menus serve a very important role for any website's ease of navigation and helping readers find things. A classic website menu is one displayed near the top of the page, listing individual sub-pages that are part of the website. Those very often are pages like About, Contact, and so on. Under the hood, menus are just simple lists of links that point to different areas within your website.

It just so happens that WordPress handles menus in a very user-friendly way. As of WordPress 3.0, custom menus are now available within the wp-admin. This wasn't always the case, but these days, all modern themes support custom menus, and so does the default theme: Twenty Seventeen.

The Custom Menus feature lets you create menus with links to pages, category archives, and even arbitrary links to any URL (which also allows you to link to your individual posts). Then you can place...