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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

4 (1)
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)

Managing the visibility of the admin toolbar

Once a user is logged in to a WordPress site, a toolbar will be displayed on the top section of every frontend and backend screen. This is the admin toolbar of a WordPress site. The default elements of this toolbar consist of menu items for the most important features in the dashboard as well as logged-in user details, along with the logout button. The admin toolbar is a very useful feature in the backend section, for quick navigation. However, sometimes it's not ideal to display in the frontend of the screen, especially for users who are not familiar with WordPress.

Unlike other custom-built web applications, the backend of WordPress is completely different from the frontend screens, so users might get confused with the sudden change in design when clicking items from the admin toolbar. So, we need the ability to enable or disable...