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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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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)

Working with the WordPress database

In this book, you will find recipes where we work with the WordPress database to understand how certain features work under the hood. In such recipes, you will need the knowledge to view and query the data in certain database tables. You can use the following steps to work with the database:

  1. Access the phpMyAdmin tool using your browser or open your chosen database management software. In this book, we will be using phpMyAdmin, hence you will get a screen similar to the following for the login:
The recipes of this book are executed on the local WAMP installation and hence you can access phpMyAdmin using http://localhost/phpmyadmin. This may vary based on the type of installation.
  1. Use the username and password of your database user and log in to the phpMyAdmin tool to get a screen similar to the following:
  1. Select the database for your...