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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

Getting Started with WordPress

This chapter will guide you through the process of setting up WordPress and customizing its basic features. You can choose between a couple of options regarding where your WordPress website will live. WordPress is relatively small (less than 10 MB) as well as easy to install and administer.

WordPress is available in easily downloadable formats at https://wordpress.org/download/. WordPress is a free, open-source application and is released under GNU General Public License (GPL) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License. This means that anyone who produces a modified version of the software released under the GPL is required to maintain the same freedom and that people buying or using the software can also modify and redistribute it. Thus, WordPress and other software released under the GPL are maintained as open source. In this chapter...

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