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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)

Storing custom data in existing tables

The features of a core WordPress site are handled by 11 core database tables. These tables are created with the default WordPress installation with the necessary data to get started. The database table structure is mainly designed for blogs and also acts as a base for content management sites. The flexibility of the default database is enormous considering the limitations of 11 tables and the initial design for blogging purposes. We have the ability to use existing tables for many of the applications without needing any custom tables.

The default screens in WordPress automatically insert, update, select, and delete the data to existing tables within WordPress core files. In application development, we need to be able to add custom data to these tables or modify these database tables from the frontend of the site instead of using the backend...