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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)

Creating additional widget areas

Most WordPress themes provide support for one or more widget areas. The sidebar of a page or post is the default and most popular widget area. Widgetizing the layout is a popular technique in modern sites where the layout is split into various areas. The widgets can be placed dynamically in these areas to provide user-specific components in the site layout. So, we see widget areas being enabled in the header, footer, and content parts of a post or page.

The widget areas in WordPress can be created by using themes as well as plugins. In this recipe, we are going to look at the process of adding a custom widget area to the Twenty Twenty Child theme layout and displaying it on the frontend.

Getting ready

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