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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition - Sixth Edition

By : Karol Król
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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition - Sixth Edition

By: Karol Król

Overview of this book

WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition is a practical guide for everyone who wants to start their journey as an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. It takes you step-by-step through the process of planning out and building your site, and offers loads of screenshots and examples along the way. It's also a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development. This book begins with the basics of WordPress, followed by the different components that you as a developer will need to use to work swiftly and efficiently. The book starts by introducing WordPress to new readers in this field. You are then shown how to set it up, implement a blog, and use plug-ins and widgets. You'll use themes to make any website look and feel better and more original. You also learn how to create your own themes and perform testing to ensure your website is bug-free. You will also acquire some idea of how to use WordPress for non-blog-like websites. By the end of the book, you will feel confident enough to design high-quality websites and will be familiar with the ins and outs of WordPress
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

The WordPress REST API

The WordPress REST API is a relatively new addition to the WordPress platform. Before it was added to core, the REST API was available as a standalone mechanism via a separate plugin. You could get everything and also learn how to work with the package from the project's official website at http://v2.wp-api.org/.

However, starting from WordPress 4.7, REST API is now included in the core WordPress package, and you don't need any additional plugins or tools to make it work. Basically, as long as you're on the most recent version of WordPress, you have REST API installed and enabled by default. Which is great news! But let's get a bit deeper.

What REST API is

Under the hood, REST API...