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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
1
Section 1: WordPress
6
Section 2: Customizing WordPress
14
Section 3: Non-Blog Websites

Setting up secure user accounts

So far in this book, we've focused on working with a personal websiteone that belongs to, and is used by, just one person. However, many blogs are used differently—there may be a single blog or website with a variety of writers, editors, and administrators. This makes the site more like a community project or even an online magazine. Also, it's by no means uncommon for bigger online publishers to use WordPress as the base of their websites, in which case the site has a number of authors, editors, reviewers, and overall contributors with varying responsibilities, not to mention the technical staff or designers. All those people should have their own user accounts when interacting with the site.

Furthermore, even if it's just you managing your personal WordPress website, you should still make your own account as secure...