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WordPress 4.x Complete

By : Karol Król
Book Image

WordPress 4.x Complete

By: Karol Król

Overview of this book

<p>With WordPress, anyone can build an optimized website with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time.</p> <p>This book will serve as a practical guide for everyone who intends to become an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. Beginning with the basic features of WordPress, the book lays a solid foundation to deal with advanced and complex features. It then moves on to helping you choose and install various themes.</p> <p>Gradually, with increasing complexity, the book goes into the development of your own themes, acting as a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development.</p> <p>Concluding the learning curve with miscellaneous tasks such as community blogging and administrating the established site, this book empowers you with the ability to maintain your site.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
WordPress 4.x Complete
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing/exporting your content


The final thing I want to describe in this chapter is the feature of importing and exporting your content. By default, WordPress allows you to "take" content from other places and publish it on your site. There are a number of platforms supported, including Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr blogs, and more. You can see the complete list by navigating to Tools | Import (it's also the starting point when importing content):

Importing content

If you want to import content from any source, after you click on any of the links visible in the preceding screenshot, WordPress will prompt you to install some plugins to fully enable the feature. Plugins are the topic of the next chapter, but the way WordPress uses them for importing is really a hands-off approach, so you don't need to know much about plugins themselves in order to be able to import content.

Now, importing content from each of the available platforms is a bit different, but the general process looks similar...