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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)

Limiting post revisions

Post revisions is a core WordPress feature that allows us to keep different versions of a post. Once a post is updated, a new revision will be created. The default features are set to allow unlimited post revisions. Often, these post revisions affect the loading time because WordPress has to go through all posts, including revisions, to find the right data to display. As the record count increases, the speed of the query decreases. Revisions are only used when you want to compare two versions to track changes or restore to a previous version. So, we need a way to manage these revisions without letting them affect the performance of the site.

In this recipe, we are going to use built-in WordPress features to set the number of revisions to a fixed amount, allowing WordPress to automatically remove unnecessary revisions.

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