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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Development Quick Start Guide Build beautiful and dynamic websites for your domain from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342871
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. Introduction to WordPress Development 2. Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development 4. Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development 5. Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions 6. Practical Usage of WordPress APIs 7. Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms 8. Discovering Key Modules in Development 9. Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the role of themes in development

The ability to choose an existing theme among thousands of free and premium themes is one of the reasons for the success of WordPress as a CMS. Using an existing theme dramatically reduces both development time and cost, as opposed to designing the site from scratch.

The primary intention of a theme is to function as the presentation layer of the site. However, WordPress has evolved into a state where a basic theme, designed to act only as a presentation layer, no longer works. As a result, developers are including more and more advanced functionalities and logic within their themes to compete with other themes. In modern sites, the developer's role may involve customizing theme design, building themes from scratch, and even creating application-specific themes. Therefore, we need to be aware of the type of development involved...

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