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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

Making your theme widget-friendly

If you want to be able to use widgets in your theme, you will need to make your theme widget-friendly (also known as widgetizing your theme). Widgetizing is actually pretty easy, and to be honest with you, we already took care of that when constructing our sidebar. Let's now go back to this and explain how widgetizing works.

Going back to our sidebar

Back in the old days, it was very common for a WordPress site to use statically placed content blocks in the sidebar. In other words, the only way to place dynamic content in the sidebar of our sites was to use handmade code that would fetch whatever data we wanted and then display it. This solution wasn't very usable for everyday users...

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