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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

Menus

Menus serve a very important role for any website's ease of navigation and helping readers find things. A classic website menu is one displayed near the top of the page, listing individual sub-pages that are part of the website. Those very often are pages like About, Contact, and so on. Under the hood, menus are just simple lists of links that point to different areas within your website.

It just so happens that WordPress handles menus in a very user-friendly way. As of WordPress 3.0, custom menus are now available within the wp-admin. This wasn't always the case, but these days, all modern themes support custom menus, and so does the default theme: Twenty Seventeen.

The Custom Menus feature lets you create menus with links to pages, category archives, and even arbitrary links to any URL (which also allows you to link to your individual posts). Then you can place...

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