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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)

Adding social sharing buttons to posts

On most WordPress sites, we want to get more users and increase the traffic to the site. Social networks have revolutionized the process of promoting content. We can use social media networks to reach millions of people around the world and let them know about our content, products, and services. The site owners can share the content on social platforms and promote the site. However, this technique only provides a limited reach to the social connections of the site owner. However, we can reach a broader audience by allowing the site visitors to share content on social networks. In order to gain this advantage, we need to make the process of sharing content as simple as possible for visitors. Social sharing buttons placed in various parts of the site makes it easier for visitors to promote our content in just one click.

In this recipe, we...