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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

4 (1)
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)

Managing advanced data with custom post types

The two default post types in WordPress are called posts and pages. These two post types are intended to be used for blog posts and build pages that display information about the site. In modern sites, developers are using pages to provide highly dynamic content, interactive features, and data capturing through shortcodes added to a page. In real-world applications, we need to manage different types of content and hence the use of normal posts is not practical. The following are some examples of the use of content types in real-world applications:

  • Job submission and listing in a job management application
  • Courses and lesson management in a learning management system
  • Products and orders for an e-commerce site

The custom post type feature was introduced to handle these kinds of content types without interrupting the process and design...