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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 custom product types

WooCommerce provides features for selling many types of products. The built-in features offer four main product types, as we discussed in the Setting up an e-commerce site with WooCommerce recipe. We can use a built-in simple product type for most e-commerce sites. However, many site owners are interested in using WooCommerce to sell different types of things beyond physical products. Selling event tickets, booking hotels, and selling membership plans are some of the popular uses of WooCommerce, beyond just simple products.

We have the capability to model these custom products and services as simple products. However, simple products add too much complexity in terms of coding and managing these different product/service types. Therefore, custom product types are the preferred choice for many site owners, as well as developers.

In this recipe, we will...