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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)

Publishing and scheduling blog posts

WordPress was initially built for blogging purposes. Therefore, publishing a post is designed as a simple process, even for a beginner. We can complete the process in just two steps by adding a title, content, and clicking the Publish button. However, the default post-publishing process provides many additional features. These features are used to add more details and improve the quality of a post, as well as publish the post with specific visibility. Also, scheduling is one of the more important aspects of the publishing process, allowing us to schedule future posts. This is important when planning the publishing process for sites with a large author base, as well as letting readers know about upcoming posts.

In this recipe, we are going to use all the available features in the post-publishing process to create, publish, or schedule posts...