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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)

Enabling frontend post publishing

The default post-publishing process in WordPress allows users with the necessary permissions to create posts from the admin dashboard. However, modern blogs allow guest postings, as well as letting members with minimal permissions create posts to be approved by administrators. The built-in process is not ideal for such scenarios, as guests or members with basic permissions do not have access to the backend Posts section. As a solution, frontend post publishing is used in many sites to let anyone submit content for the site through a custom form. Usually, posts created from the frontend need to be reviewed and approved by the authorized user before appearing on the site.

In this recipe, we are going to use a free plugin to create a frontend posting form and submit posts from the frontend.

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