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WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

By : Karol Król
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WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

By: Karol Król

Overview of this book

Back in the day, when you wanted to launch a new website, you either had to learn web programming yourself or hire a professional who would take care of the whole process for you. Nowadays, with WordPress, anyone can build an optimized site with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time. Here, in the seventh edition of the book, we are going to show you how to build great looking and functional websites using WordPress. The new version of WordPress – 5.0 – comes with a few important changes, and we tell you all about how to use them effectively. From crafting content pages using the block editor, and customizing the design of your site, through to making sure it's secure, we go through it all. The book starts by introducing WordPress and teaching you how to set it up. You are then shown how to create a blog site, start writing content, and even use plugins and themes to customize the design of the site and add some unique elements to set it apart. If you want to get more in-depth, we also show you how to get started creating your own themes and plugins. Finally, we teach you how to use WordPress for building non-blog websites. By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently skilled to design high-quality websites and will be fully familiar with the ins and outs of WordPress.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: WordPress
6
Section 2: Customizing WordPress
14
Section 3: Non-Blog Websites

Optimizing for mobile and working with AMP

Accelerated mobile pages (AMP) is an open source project introduced by Google in an effort to make the viewing of content on mobile more streamlined and user-friendly, no matter what device the user might be using.

A couple of years ago, the idea of mobile web was only getting started, and a lot of websites were incredibly poorly optimized for mobile viewing. Back in the day, mobile wasn't so important, since the technology didn't allow for effective media consumption on a mobile phone. However, with the introduction of smartphones, this all changed. Nowadays, more people access the web on mobile than on desktops and laptops combined.

Clearly, websites needed to adapt and deliver an optimized interface for mobile viewing alongside their default, desktop-only view.

This is where AMP comes into play. In many cases, making an...