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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Development Quick Start Guide Build beautiful and dynamic websites for your domain from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342871
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. Introduction to WordPress Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval 3. Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development 4. Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development 5. Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions 6. Practical Usage of WordPress APIs 7. Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms 8. Discovering Key Modules in Development 9. Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting started with developing themes

We discussed the development tasks involved in themes in the preceding section. Building a theme from scratch is a process with a very wide scope and hence not feasible to discuss in this type of book. Therefore, we will focus on customizing existing themes while providing the necessary knowledge to build themes from scratch. There are two ways of adding or modifying features in an existing theme:

  • Building and customizing features of a design by modifying template files
  • Extending theme features through available filters and actions

Both of these techniques require us to modify the files of an existing theme. In most sites, we will be using existing, free, or premium themes that have developed by third-party developers. So, it's obvious that we will receive updated versions of the theme with more features, bug fixes, and improved code...

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