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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

Getting familiar with the new feature list since 4.1

Since the last edition of this book was published, quite a staggering number of new features have been added to the WordPress software. If you're new to WordPress, this list may not mean a whole lot to you, but if you're familiar with WordPress and have been using it for a long time, you'll find this list quite enlightening:

  • New default theme--Twenty Seventeen
  • New Press This feature--making it easier to take any content you've found on the web and share it onto your WordPress website
  • Easier theme installation and switching--all within the WordPress Customizer
  • Easier plugin update and install from the Plugins screen--done with just a couple of clicks
  • Support for native Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, musical and mathematical symbols, hieroglyphs, and also a plethora of emojis (including all of the latest Unicode 9.0 emoji characters)
  • Improvements to the way that passwords are chosen and changed
  • Possibility to manage the site's favicon--both on desktop and mobile
  • Improved customizer panels and Sections and new Customizer Media Controls
  • Better display rules for matching images to different screen sizes and devices
  • Integrated REST API infrastructure and the addition of API endpoints for WordPress content
  • Extended custom header feature to introduce support for video headers
  • Added user admin languages and locale switching
  • Device previewer buttons added to the customizer to better visualize what the website looks like on desktop, tablet, and mobile
  • Added inline link editing--enables adding links without switching to modal dialog
  • Introduction of native device fonts for the WordPress admin panel
  • Improvements to internationalization
  • A lot of security improvements to protect your site from hacks and malicious scripts

Learning more

If you'd like to see detailed lists of all new features added since WordPress Version 4.1, take a look at the docs here:

Also, you can read a fully explained feature list at https://wordpress.org/about/features/.

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