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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

The WordPress Customizer

Yet another feature in WordPress that's highly dependent on your theme is the Customize Your Site module. If you still have the welcome box enabled in your Dashboard's screen settings, you can access this module by clicking on the big Customize Your Site button, as shown in the following screenshot:

Another way of accessing this module is by visiting http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/customize.php. This is what you'll see (provided you're working with the default theme):

By going through the individual tabs on the left, you can adjust various aspects of your site--some that we've already talked about in this chapter, as well as some that are completely new. We're going to look through them here. The available customizations are as follows:

  • Site Identity
  • Colors
  • Header Media
  • Menus
  • Widgets
  • Static Front Page
  • Additional CSS

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