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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

Social Media Integration, Podcasting, and HTTPS

Social media has grown a lot in importance over the last couple of years. Basically, if you don't have your profile on at least a couple of the most popular social networks, then you might as well not exist at all, right? Well, no matter if you agree with that or not, this certainly rings true for your website. In other words, if you hope to attract any kind of audience and somehow convince them to keep coming back to your website, you absolutely have to, have to! integrate it with social media.

Luckily, WordPress lets you do so in more or less an easy to grasp way. Even though social media integration is not a built-in feature per se, it can still be enabled via different plugins or other mechanisms. In this chapter, you will learn all about these. We'll cover things such as how to enable simple social media share buttons...

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