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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)

Improving Site Security

The security of a website has a broader scope than many people think. Keeping a site secured is important for continuing the uninterrupted flow of site features as well as building the trust of site users. The importance of site security varies based on the type of site, the data involved, and the sensitivity of that data. The security of the read-only blog may not be as important as the security of private membership sites containing users' personal details.

It's not practical to identify and be prepared for any and every type of security threat, as hackers innovate new ways of hacking sites. So, we have to narrow down the causes of security threats and identify the common causes creating the majority of security threats in WordPress sites. Then, we can implement the necessary features to prevent these issues from occurring continuously.

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