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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789342871

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

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UI components

Modern websites are built on top of interactive UI elements. Many premium WordPress themes include a wide range of UI components with the support of open source JavaScript and CSS libraries. These UI components attract users to a site by simplifying the interfaces as well as providing large content in a limited space. Among hundreds of UI elements, we find image sliders and galleries, tabs being the most popular ones. As a developer, you need to use or build these components to keep up to date with rising UI requirements in modern development. So, it's important to understand the basic process of integrating any UI component into WordPress using plugins or themes. In this section, we are going to look at the integration of two UI components. Let’s get started.

Integrating the jQuery image slider

The image sliders and galleries are the most popular UI elements in WordPress sites. You can visit the wordpress.org plugin directory or a premium marketplace such as Codecanyon to understand...

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Authors (1)

Ratnayake

Ratnayake

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake is a freelance web developer, writer, and open source enthusiast. He has over 9 years of experience in developing WordPress applications and plugins. He develops premium WordPress plugins for individual clients and the CodeCanyon marketplace. User Profiles Made Easy and WP Private Content Pro are the most popular plugins developed by him. Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js was his first book, which was published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the first three editions of WordPress Web Application Development. In his spare time, he likes to read books and spend time with his family

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