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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

By : Karol Król

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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

4.1 (7)

By: Karol Król

Overview of this book

WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition is a practical guide for everyone who wants to start their journey as an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. It takes you step-by-step through the process of planning out and building your site, and offers loads of screenshots and examples along the way. It's also a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development. This book begins with the basics of WordPress, followed by the different components that you as a developer will need to use to work swiftly and efficiently. The book starts by introducing WordPress to new readers in this field. You are then shown how to set it up, implement a blog, and use plug-ins and widgets. You'll use themes to make any website look and feel better and more original. You also learn how to create your own themes and perform testing to ensure your website is bug-free. You will also acquire some idea of how to use WordPress for non-blog-like websites. By the end of the book, you will feel confident enough to design high-quality websites and will be familiar with the ins and outs of WordPress

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Introducing WordPress

Introducing WordPress

Getting into WordPress

Understanding the common terms

Why choose WordPress?

Getting to know the WordPress family

Digging into WordPress – the features

Getting familiar with the new feature list since 4.1

Learning more with online WordPress resources

Staying updated with WordPress news

Understanding the Codex

Getting support from other users

Using theme and plugin directories

Summary

Getting Started with WordPress

Getting Started with WordPress

Building your WordPress website – start here

Using WordPress.com

Installing WordPress manually

Installing WordPress through an auto-installer script

The wp-admin panel

Getting a Gravatar

Summary

Creating Blog Content

Creating Blog Content

WordPress admin conventions

Posting on your blog

Discussion on your blog – comments

Adding and managing categories

Summary

Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content

Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content

Pages

Media Library

Importing/exporting your content

Summary

Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them

Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them

Breaking down plugins - what are they?

Why use plugins

Where to get plugins

Finding new plugins

Installing a plugin - the how-to

The must-have pack of plugins

Summary

Choosing and Installing Themes

Choosing and Installing Themes

Finding themes

Some not-design-related theme basics

Installing and changing themes

Summary

Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design

Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design

Menus

Widgets

The WordPress Customizer

Summary

Developing Your Own Theme

Developing Your Own Theme

Setting up your design

Converting your build into a theme

Creating template files within your theme

Making your theme widget-friendly

Enabling a menu in your theme

Making your theme editable in the WordPress Customizer

Creating a child theme

Sharing your theme

Summary

Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS

Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS

Integrating social media

Podcasting

HTTPS - what, why, and how

Summary

Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to the REST API

Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to the REST API

Plugins

Widgets

Shortcodes

The WordPress REST API

Summary

Community Blogging

Community Blogging

Concerns for a multi-author blog

User roles and abilities

Managing users

User management plugins

Summary

Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics

Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics

The must-do tasks

Static websites

Corporate or business websites

One-page websites

Summary

Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements

Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements

E-commerce stores

Video blogs and photo blogs

Social networks

Introducing custom post types

Summary

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Building your WordPress website – start here

The first decision you have to make is where your blog is going to live. You have two basic options when creating your site:

Do it at https://wordpress.com
Install on a third-party web server (usually hosted by an external company)

Let's look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of each of these two options.

The advantage of using WordPress.com (https://wordpress.com/) is that they take care of all the technical details for you. The software has already been installed, and it will be upgraded for you whenever there is an upgrade available. You're not responsible for anything else but the management of your content. A major disadvantage is that you lose almost all of the theme and plugin control you'd have otherwise. The other advantages and disadvantages are as follows:

WordPress.com will not let you...

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