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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)

Building E-Commerce Sites with WooComerce

Selling goods or services through online shops is on the rise. We see various types of products being sold online without a physical store. So, building an e-commerce website has become one of the key aspects of many businesses. An e-commerce site allows us to sell products to people all over the world at any time of the day since the purchasing process is automated. WordPress is commonly used in combination with the WooCommerce plugin to build e-commerce sites in a rapid process. WooCommerce is a fully-featured open source plugin developed by Automattic, the company behind WordPress. Currently, over 30% of online shops are built with WooCommerce. So, WooCommerce has become a top choice for building e-commerce sites, even though there are several other plugins that offer similar functionality.

The primary goal of this chapter is to help...