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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)

WordPress as an Application Framework

Generally, we use full-stack development frameworks such as Laravel, CodeIgniter, and Zend for developing advanced applications. These frameworks provide a set of modules as a base structure where we can build applications on top of it. The core modules in development frameworks include routing, template management, database layer abstraction, security, user management, validations, error handling, and many more. We can use these modules to speed up the development process instead of coding everything from scratch. WordPress was introduced as a blogging tool and transformed into the most popular content management system out there. However, it was not built as a web application framework.

The features in recent versions, the flexibility of core modules, and the similarity of these modules to a development framework module have made developers...