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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large audience or build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way. This book explains the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios. You begin by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Then you move into the most important aspects of the theme and plugin development process. Here you will also learn how themes and plugins fit into the website while learning about a range of techniques for extending themes and plugins. With the basics covered, we explore many of the APIs provided by WordPress and how we can leverage them to build rapid solutions. Next, we move on to look at the techniques for capturing, processing, and displaying user data when integrating third-party components into the site design. Finally, you will learn how to test and deploy your work with secure and maintainable code, while providing the best performance for end users.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Copyright and Credits

WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

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Commissioning Editor:Kunal ChaudhariAcquisition Editor: Reshma RamanContent Development Editor: Roshan KumarTechnical Editor: Shweta JadhavCopy Editor: Safis EditingProject Coordinator: Hardik BhindeProofreader: Safis EditingIndexer:Pratik ShirodkarGraphics:Alishon MendonsaProduction Coordinator:Deepika Naik

First published: October 2018

Production reference: 1291018

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.

ISBN 978-1-78934-287-1

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