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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

By : Ratnayake
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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

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By: Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large audience or build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way. This book explains the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios. You begin by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Then you move into the most important aspects of the theme and plugin development process. Here you will also learn how themes and plugins fit into the website while learning about a range of techniques for extending themes and plugins. With the basics covered, we explore many of the APIs provided by WordPress and how we can leverage them to build rapid solutions. Next, we move on to look at the techniques for capturing, processing, and displaying user data when integrating third-party components into the site design. Finally, you will learn how to test and deploy your work with secure and maintainable code, while providing the best performance for end users.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction to WordPress Development
Introduction to WordPress Development
Introduction to WordPress development
Setting up the development environment
Understanding the role of the WordPress file and directory structure
A brief overview of WordPress coding standards
Summary
2
Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval
Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval
Introduction to the WordPress database
Understanding the role of built-in database tables
Understanding the importance of database usage
How to track database usage in WordPress
Tracking database usage of common WordPress features
Overview of the multisite database structure
Creating and managing custom tables
Executing basic CRUD operations on existing tables
Executing basic CRUD operations on custom tables
Summary
3
Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development
Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development
Technical requirements
Introduction to WordPress themes
Understanding the role of themes in development
Understanding built-in theme components
Getting started with developing themes
Working with the WordPress theme template hierarchy
Conditionally changing template design and content
Summary
4
Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development
Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development
Technical requirements
Understanding the role of plugins
Creating your first plugin
Exploring the life cycle of a plugin
Developing a post attachments plugin
Identifying the advantages of custom plugin development as a developer
Guidelines for building quality plugins
Summary
5
Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions
Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions
Technical Requirements
Introduction to addons
Creating addons for plugins
The WordPress action execution process
Identifying the extendable features of third-party plugins
Customizing third-party plugins
Integrating multiple plugins for a continuous workflow
Summary
6
Practical Usage of WordPress APIs
Practical Usage of WordPress APIs
Technical Requirements
A brief overview of WordPress APIs
Introducing shortcodes
Building custom shortcodes
Understanding the usage of shortcodes
Managing custom routes with Rewrite API
Building remote connections with REST API
Summary
7
Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms
Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms
Technical requirements
Introduction to custom post types
Building an object-oriented plugin
Building custom post types for properties
Introduction to form management
Using a form management plugin
Summary
8
Discovering Key Modules in Development
Discovering Key Modules in Development
Technical requirements
UI components
Integrating jQuery accordion
Steps for integrating UI components
Simplifying development with page builders
Simplifying and customizing admin features
Summary
9
Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance
Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance
Introduction to testing
Securing WordPress sites
Migrating WordPress sites
Maintaining WordPress sites
Summary
10
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