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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)

Building an audience with newsletters

Once a WordPress site is made public, we will start getting visitors from all over the world. Some of these visitors may continue to visit the site regularly, while some of the visitors may only visit the site a few times. In order to make the site successful, we need a loyal audience that visits the site frequently. A newsletter is one of the methods of building a loyal audience for our site. We use newsletters to send important content, updates, and offers on the site for the users through email. The users are more likely to click on links in emails than visit the site on their own. So, we can use newsletters to build an audience by asking them to subscribe to it.

In this recipe, we are going to use a free plugin to create a subscription form to build an email list and send newsletters to the subscribers.

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