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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

You're reading from   WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition A comprehensive guide to WordPress development from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285705
Length 412 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WordPress 2. Getting Started with WordPress FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Blog Content 4. Pages, Media, and Importing/Exporting Content 5. Plugins - What They Are and Why You Need Them 6. Choosing and Installing Themes 7. Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design 8. Developing Your Own Theme 9. Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS 10. Developing Plugins, Widgets, and an Introduction to the REST API 11. Community Blogging 12. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part One - The Basics 13. Creating a Non-Blog Website Part Two - E-Commerce Websites and Custom Content Elements

Making your theme editable in the WordPress Customizer

--also known as the Customize API, is a relatively recent addition to the WordPress ecosystem. In short, it's a framework meant for live-previewing any changes that the user makes to their website. The Customizer's interface allows for the modifcation of various aspects of the theme's and website's appearance, starting from the name of the site, the tagline, all the way to the colors used, layouts, widgets, menus, and more. We talked about the Customizer from the user's point of view back in Chapter 7, Customizing Your Website Appearance/Design.

Now from a developer's perspective, when you're building your own WordPress theme, there are a couple of things that you should do in order to make your theme compatible with the Customizer. Luckily, the starter theme that we're using in this...

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