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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)

Customizing default WordPress emails

Email notifications in a site help users and administrators keep track of the site's activities and urges them to take action. WordPress provides a set of built-in email templates for major actions. More often than not, we will need to customize the content of these default email templates based on the type of the site and its requirements. As of version 5.3.2, WordPress doesn't offer features for customizing email content from the dashboard. Using the built-in filter hooks is the only way to customize the content. So, non-technical users may face difficulties when changing these emails.

In this recipe, we are going to use the Better Notifications for WordPress plugin to customize the default emails. We will learn how this plugin can be used to introduce and customize emails for actions not provided by WordPress.

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