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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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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 print, PDF, and email buttons to posts

There are websites with blog posts, articles, tutorials, or important content that needs to be read several times both online and offline. On such sites, the ability to download or share content for offline use makes the content much more usable to the user. Features such as print, PDF download, email sharing, and social sharing are present on many such sites. These features also improve the interactivity of the site by letting the user take action on the content of the site.

The print and PDF features allow the reader to print or download the content on the page. The email sharing allows the user to share the content with many other users by sending emails. We need to use custom solutions to add these features as they are not provided by the WordPress core.

In this recipe, we are going to use the Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly...