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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)

Backing up site files and uploads

Creating and managing backups of the site is one of the most important maintenance tasks. Due to the open source nature and use of third-party plugins, WordPress sites can become vulnerable to attacks. The site can be hacked by adding new files, corrupting existing files, or removing all files. In such a case, file backups are essential for quickly restoring the site and making it functional.

There are several files and folders in a WordPress site for core files, custom added content such as plugins/themes, and the files uploaded to the site. Among these folders, the files and folders inside wp-content are the most important things we need to back up as this folder contains all the site-specific data. We can also back up core files inside the root folder, wp-admin, and wp-includes folders, even though we can install WordPress again and get it...