Blogging has been one of the primary features of the WordPress platform from the start. We can use default posts or create a custom post type for blogging. A blog is a place where content is added and updated by a single user or a set of authors. The default post-publishing process is built to cater to personal blogging or handle the basic processes of a multi-author blog.
However, sites that primarily focus on publishing content on a large scale require additional data, procedures, and features. The goal of this chapter is to simplify the content creation and publishing processes for such sites, build a custom workflow, and introduce features to attract more visitors to blog posts.
We will start the implementation of these goals by understanding all aspects of the default post-creation process. Then, we will simplify the blogging...