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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)

Widgets

Widgets are one of the native mechanisms in WordPress. Their main purpose is to provide us with an easy-to-use way of customizing the sidebars, footers, and headers of our site, with the addition of extra content. Even though the most common placement of widgets is indeed the sidebar, the only actual rule is that a widget can be displayed inside a widget area. And, a widget area can be anywhere a theme developer wants it to be. Common widgets contain the following:

  • A monthly archive of blog posts
  • A clickable list of pages
  • A clickable list of recent posts
  • A metadata box (containing log in/out links, RSS feed links, and other WordPress links)
  • Recent comments posted on the blog
  • A clickable list of categories
  • A tag cloud
  • A block of text and HTML
  • A search box

These days, most themes are widget-enabled with one or more widget areas available for use. If I were to simplify...