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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 FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval

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

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Who this book is for

This book is intended for web developers and site owners who are planning to build custom websites with WordPress. Also, web developers could use this book as a starting point for getting into plugin and theme development.

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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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