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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

Digging into WordPress – the features

Here is a list of some of the features that WordPress has to offer (in no particular order):

  • Compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, although it does depend on the theme you're using
  • Unlimited posts and pages
  • Unlimited categories and subcategories
  • Unlimited tags
  • Mobile friendly (depending on the design/theme you use)
  • Flexible--create any type of website you want
  • Scalable--can handle any size of website
  • Automatic syndication (RSS and Atom)
  • Ability to post via email and mobile devices (there are apps available for all major mobile platforms, including iOS and Android)
  • Support for plugins and themes
  • Import of data from other blogs (Moveable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, b2evolution, Blogger, and others)
  • Easy to administer and blog without any previous experience
  • Convenient, fully functional, built-in search
  • Multilingual capability
  • Ability to password protect content
  • Comments manager and spam protection
  • Built-in workflow (write, draft, review, and publish)
  • Intelligent text editing via a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor
  • Multi-user and multi-author support for user accounts
  • Feature-rich Media Library for managing photos and other non-text content through a visual and highly usable interface
  • Social media integration capabilities
  • Dynamic and scalable revision functionality with post (edit) locking
  • Built-in embed functionality through shortcodes (compatible with services such as YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, SoundCloud, Reddit Comments, and others)
  • An admin panel that's accessible via all modern devices, operating systems, and web browsers
  • Pre-made color schemes for the admin panel
  • User-friendly image editing, plus a drag-and-drop image importing feature
  • Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) features through plugins and themes
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