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WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532012
Pages 432 pages
Edition 7th Edition
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Karol Król Karol Król
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Karol Król is a WordPress developer, professional blogger, and writer. He has been building expertise in WordPress ever since his early years at the Silesian University of Technology (Poland), where he graduated with an MSc in computer science. Early in his career, he worked as a freelance website developer for several years. Later on, he decided to shift his interest toward popularizing WordPress as the perfect solution for all web-based projects, and devoted his time to growing his writing career. To this day, his articles have been featured on websites including About, MarketingProfs, SmashingMagazine, Adobe, CodeinWP, NIO, and many more..
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Preface 1. Section 1: WordPress
2. Introducing WordPress 3. Getting Started with WordPress 4. Creating Blog Content 5. Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content 6. Section 2: Customizing WordPress
7. Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them 8. Securing your WordPress Website 9. Choosing and Installing Themes 10. Customizing your Website Appearance/Design 11. Developing your Own Theme 12. Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS 13. Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to REST API 14. Section 3: Non-Blog Websites
15. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics 16. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Developing your Own Theme

At this point, you know how to find themes on the web and install them for use on your WordPress website. But, there's a lot more that WordPress has to offer, particularly in the theme development department. In this chapter, you'll learn how to turn your own design into a fully functional WordPress theme, which you'll then be able to use on your website. You'll also learn how to share your WordPress theme with other users on the web.

All you will need before we get started is the following:

  • Your own website design
  • The ability to slice and dice your design to turn it into an HTML structure

We'll start out with tips on slicing and dicing, so that your HTML and CSS files are as WordPress-friendly as possible, and then cover the steps for turning that HTML build into a fully functional theme.

Note that I assume you are already...
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Karol Król is a WordPress developer, professional blogger, and writer. He has been building expertise in WordPress ever since his early years at the Silesian University of Technology (Poland), where he graduated with an MSc in computer science. Early in his career, he worked as a freelance website developer for several years. Later on, he decided to shift his interest toward popularizing WordPress as the perfect solution for all web-based projects, and devoted his time to growing his writing career. To this day, his articles have been featured on websites including About, MarketingProfs, SmashingMagazine, Adobe, CodeinWP, NIO, and many more..
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