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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)

Setting up WordPress Multisite

WordPress Multisite is an in-built feature that's disabled by default. This feature allows us to manage multiple sites as a network by sharing the same WordPress installation, plugins, themes, and some of the core database tables. The advantage of Multisite is its ability to manage all your sites in a single dashboard, thus allowing you to make updates on all sites at once.

The process of enabling Multisite is not a straightforward task and hence could be difficult for a beginner. It involves changing core WordPress files and hence needs to be executed carefully.

In this recipe, we are going to configure the necessary settings to enable the Multisite feature in WordPress and get the installation ready for creating new sites.

Getting ready

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