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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)

Capturing data with dynamic forms

Form management is a crucial task in application development. The basic use of forms includes capturing one-time data through methods such as contact forms, surveys, and quizzes. In previous recipes, we used custom post types to manage the custom data for the application using the built-in post create/update form. Popular application plugins such as bbPress, WooCommerce, and LearnPress use the default features to manage all data through default forms.

In applications, we may need more flexibility in capturing and modifying the data through custom forms in order to get rid of the limitations of custom post-processes such as form design, database storage, and form submission. We can use form management plugins such as Caldera Forms to create custom forms in a rapid process and manage the data. The choice between custom post types and dynamic custom...