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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)

Improving user profiles with additional fields

The user management functionality provides a basic profile for every WordPress user in the backend of the site. User details are separated into a few sections, called Personal Options, Name, Contact Info, About Yourself, and Account Management. These sections contain built-in fields for capturing basic details about a user. Administrative users can update user details from the backend profile.

These details are sufficient for basic sites with a predefined set of users or blogs. In order to build advanced applications such as social networks, online stores, and learning management systems, we need more data about the user. In such cases, we need additional fields on the backend user profile, or we need to create a custom user profile on the frontend.

In this recipe, we are going to use built-in action and filter hooks to extend the...