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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

Media Library

The Media Library is where WordPress stores all of your uploaded files such as images, PDFs, music, videos, and so on. To see your Media Library, navigate to Media in the main menu (probably not a lot of media there at the moment):

What you're seeing is a nice grid layout that makes looking through media very user-friendly. My Media Library has four photos in it at the moment. Once I click on any of them, I will see the Attachment Details screen that we talked about in Chapter 3, Creating Blog Content. On this screen, there are a lot of options to modify the file that's been selected. We can edit details, such as Title, Caption, Alt Text, and Description, and also delete the file permanently or view it on the frontend of the site:

You can also add a new file to your Media Library. Navigate to Media Library | Add New to access a page similar to the upload...

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