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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

You're reading from   WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition A comprehensive guide to WordPress development from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285705
Length 412 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WordPress 2. Getting Started with WordPress FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Blog Content 4. Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content 5. Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them 6. Choosing and Installing Themes 7. Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design 8. Developing Your Own Theme 9. Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS 10. Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to the REST API 11. Community Blogging 12. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics 13. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements

Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics

As you have seen while reading this book, WordPress comes fully equipped to power a blog with all its particular requirements of post handling, categorization, chronological display, and so on. However, powering blogs is not WordPress' only purpose. Not anymore. In fact, there are millions of websites out there right now running WordPress, where blogging is not the primary focus of the website. I myself have built a number of such sites.

Just to give you a general idea of what's possible, here's a list of some popular
non-blog type websites that you can build and launch using WordPress (we will cover some of them in more detail later in this and the next chapter):

  • Static websites: Featuring just a handful of static subpages that are not meant to be updated very often; also, the main content is not organized chronologically...
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