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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

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Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342871
Length 300 pages
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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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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

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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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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