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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
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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

Posting on your blog

The central activity you'll be doing with your blog is adding posts. A post is like an article in a magazine; it needs a title, body content, and an author (in this case though, WordPress allows multiple authors to contribute to a blog). A blog post also has a lot of other information attached to it, such as a date, excerpt, tags, and categories. In this section, you will learn how to create a new post and what kind of information to attach to it.

Adding a simple post

Whenever you want to add content or carry out maintenance on your WordPress website, you have to start by logging in to the WordPress administration panel (wp-admin) of your site. To get to the admin panel, open https://yoursite.com...

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