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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)

Tracking site activities

A WordPress site can be managed by a single administrator as well as a team of users with different access levels. In a team environment, we need the ability to track the tasks executed in a given time period as well as the person responsible for executing each task. This process of tracking the activities is important mainly in the following scenarios:

  • Figuring out the cause of an issue: When an issue occurred in the site, finding the activity and person responsible is important in order to revert the changes or apply the necessary changes to fix it.
  • Keeping everyone aware of changes: In a team environment, it's important to let the user know about the changes made by other users on the same resource. For example, one user may add a category to a post. When the second user is editing the same post, the user might remove the category, thinking that...