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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 a contact form using Gutenberg

The contact form is one of the most essential features in almost all websites. It acts as the first point of communication with site owners when the user needs specific information or when something goes wrong while using the site. In Chapter 3, Using Plugins and Widgets, we used the Contact Form 7 plugin to add a contact form as it's not a feature that's available in default. However, we have to create the form and then manually add the shortcode to a post or page. Instead, many site owners prefer adding it as a block to the new editor without needing to use shortcodes. This is possible with the new Gutenberg editor as most things are being converted into a reusable block.

We need to use a plugin to add a contact form as a block. We are going to choose the Caldera Forms plugin instead of the Contact Form 7 plugin as Contact Form...