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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)

Publishing Site Content with the Gutenberg Editor

WordPress was first introduced as a blogging tool and then became a content management system. These days, WordPress is used to develop advanced applications beyond content management systems. However, most existing WordPress sites are basic sites that use CMS features. So, we need the ability to add and manage content quickly. As a solution, Page Builders were developed to speed up the process of building content pages by dragging and dropping built-in elements. However, we need separate page builder plugins as the WordPress editor doesn't have any built-in page building features.

The new Gutenberg editor was introduced as a solution to allow block-based editing to speed up this process, as well as help with editing the page layout without breaking other parts of it. In this stage, Gutenberg is not considered a fully-fledged...