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WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

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WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

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

Media library

The media library is where WordPress stores all of your uploaded files, such as images, PDFs, music, and videos. To see your media library, navigate to Media in the main menu (there's probably not a lot of media there at the moment):

What you're seeing is a nice grid layout that makes looking through media very user-friendly. My media library has four photos in it at the moment. Once I click on any of them, I will see the Attachment Details screen that we talked about in Chapter 3, Creating Blog Content. On this screen, there are a lot of options to modify the file that's been selected.

We can edit details, such as Title, Caption, Alt Text, and Description, and also delete the file permanently or view it on the frontend of the site:

You can also add a new file to the media library. Navigate to Media | Add New to access a page, similar to the upload...