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WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

You're reading from  WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532012
Pages 432 pages
Edition 7th Edition
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Author (1):
Karol Król Karol Król
Profile icon Karol Król
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters close

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

The wp-admin panel

WordPress installs a powerful and flexible administration area where you can manage all of your website content and so much more. Throughout the book, this will be referred to in shorthand as the wp-admin, or WP Admin, or the WordPress dashboard in some cases.

Now that you've successfully installed WordPress, it's time for our first look at the wp-admin. There are some immediate basic changes that are recommended to make sure your installation is set up properly.

You can always get to the wp-admin by visiting http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/ (this URL is also the reason why we're calling it the wp-admin). If it's your first time there, you'll be redirected to the login page. In the future, WordPress will check whether you're already logged in and if so, you'll skip the login page.

To log in, just enter the username and password...

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