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WordPress 5 Complete

You're reading from   WordPress 5 Complete Build beautiful and feature-rich websites from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532012
Length 432 pages
Edition 7th Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: WordPress FREE CHAPTER
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

Widgets

Writing a widget bears some similarities to writing a plugin. In some ways, it's even easier because there is a widget class that you can leverage for some of the functionalities. In other ways, it's also a bit more time-consuming as there's a lot of mandatory code that every widget has to feature.

Custom tag cloud widget

In this section, we'll see how to write a widget that displays a custom tag cloud that we can then place in the sidebar. There will also be the possibility to change the title of the widget, and although this is a tag cloud widget, we'll be able to switch tags to categories and display them using a tag-cloud-like style as well. In its final form, the widget will look like...

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