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WordPress 4.x Complete

By : Karol Król
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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

Sharing your theme


If you want to turn your template into a package that other people can use, you just have to take the following steps:

  1. Make sure you have the rights to redistribute images, icons, photos, and so on, that you included in your theme.

  2. Remove all unnecessary files from your theme's folder. Be sure you don't have backup versions or old copies of any of your files. If you do delete any file, be sure to retest your theme to ensure you didn't accidentally delete something important.

  3. Make sure the comment at the top of the style.css file is complete and accurate.

  4. Create a Readme.txt file. This is a good place to let future users know with what version of WordPress your theme is compatible and if it has any special features or requirements.

  5. Zip the folder and post your theme's ZIP file on your own website for people to download, or post it directly in the WordPress Theme Directory at https://wordpress.org/themes/.

Even though the preceding looks like a standard step-by-step process, it...