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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)

Troubleshooting WordPress

WordPress is one of the simplest content management systems you can use to set up and build a site. However, as with any other site, you may come across various kinds of issues at some point in time. Many existing WordPress sites are built on top of core features or built using existing plugins and themes, so web developers are not involved in building and maintaining the site. Therefore, resolving problems becomes a significant issue for administrators without the necessary technical knowledge. However, most issues are caused due to well-known reasons, so applying solutions to many of the problems doesn't require the assistance of a developer.

The main goal of this chapter is to identify common issues faced by administrators in WordPress sites and to try to get them resolved through basic fixes, before getting technical support. We will be achieving...