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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)
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Section 1: WordPress
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Section 2: Customizing WordPress
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Section 3: Non-Blog Websites

Installing and changing themes

Now that you've chosen the theme you want to use, you'll need to install it onto your WordPress website. You'll have the following two choices, as you did when adding new plugins:

  • If the theme you want is in the WordPress Theme Directory, you can add the theme straight from within wp-admin
  • Otherwise, you'll have to download the theme's ZIP archive and then upload it to your site by hand

Adding a theme from within wp-admin

As we mentioned in the preceding section, you can add a theme directly from within your wp-admin if you've chosen a theme from the WordPress Theme Directory:

  1. First, navigate to Appearance, and then click on the Add New button (visible at the...