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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)

Optimizing images

A website consisting of just plain text content is rarely seen among modern sites. Rich content types such as audio, video, and images are preferred in modern sites, encouraging users to interact with the site and providing a visual representation of content. However, these rich content types increase the page loading time and page size compared to plain text web pages.

On websites with a large number of images, optimization is an essential task, especially for letting users browse the site on mobile devices without unnecessary waiting time. The optimization of images can be achieved by implementing several techniques, such as the following:

  • Uploading images with the right dimensions for the screen size
  • Compressing
  • Resizing
  • Reducing file size by customizing the image quality
  • Conditionally loading different image sizes based on screen size

We can manually optimize...