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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 Usability and Interactivity

Usability and interactivity are two of the key factors in the success of any site. Usability defines how easily the users can both use and learn how to use the features of the site. There are several main factors that affect the usability of the site. These factors include site loading time, finding specific content, and retrieving data without considerable delays. We can improve these factors by reducing the size of the site's content, using Ajax, and adding non-functional features that make it easier to access and work with the content.

On the other hand, interactivity means the process of engaging the users with the features of the site rather than just allowing them to read the content published on the site. We can improve interactivity by promoting discussions, allowing users to share content, and letting users add content to the...