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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Migrating WordPress sites to new servers

Usually, we create or develop a site in a local environment or a staging server. Once the site is built and tested, we migrate the site from the staging server to the live server. This is a time-consuming process requiring us to back up databases and files and upload them to the live server. Then, we have to change the URLs of the staging site to the live site in the database. As a solution to this time-consuming process, there are several WordPress plugins built to automate the tedious tasks of the migration process. Duplicator is one of the plugins that allow us to create a backup of the entire site and migrate the backup to an existing WordPress site or new WordPress site using an automated process.

In this recipe, we are going to use the Duplicator plugin to back up files and databases and migrate to a different site through an automated...