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WordPress 5 Cookbook
WordPress 5 Cookbook

WordPress 5 Cookbook: Actionable solutions to common problems when building websites with WordPress

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WordPress 5 Cookbook

Customizing Theme Design and Layout

The WordPress theme is the core feature behind what we see on the frontend of the site. The theme contains a collection of standard templates as well as theme-specific templates to manage the frontend screens. This chapter focuses on using standard theme features as well as creating custom features through child themes and custom templates. The standard theme features include customizers, menus, and built-in theme options. After reading this chapter, you will no longer be restricted to the default functionality of a theme. You will gain the skills to change the basic elements of a site using a customizer as well as create and use various custom templates in order to handle advanced requirements. Also, you will learn how to keep the customizations independent from your theme to keep them compatible with version upgrades.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Using the theme customizer
  • Working with custom CSS in live preview
  • Using a custom page as a home page
  • Creating a child theme
  • Styling navigation menus
  • Creating conditional navigation menus
  • Adding a video header to the theme
  • Using conditional tags to control content display
  • Creating page templates from scratch
  • Creating a custom posts list template
  • Creating a custom 404 error page

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Key benefits

  • Build custom features and extend built-in features in WordPress with custom coding and plugins
  • Get to grips with extending WordPress as an application framework
  • Manage non-functional aspects of your website such as security, performance, and maintenance

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WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.

Who is this book for?

This book is for beginners who want to build powerful modern websites with minimum coding knowledge and intermediate web developers who want to extend the basic features of WordPress to cater to advanced modern website technologies. Although prior experience with WordPress is not required, familiarity with basic PHP, HTML, and CSS is necessary to understand the concepts covered.

What you will learn

  • Install and customize WordPress themes and plugins for building websites
  • Develop modern web designs without the need to write any code
  • Explore the new Gutenberg content editor introduced in WordPress 5 (Bebo)
  • Use the existing WordPress plugins to add custom features and monetize your website
  • Improve user interaction and accessibility for your website with simple tricks
  • Discover powerful techniques for maintaining and securing your websites
  • Extend built-in WordPress features for advanced website management
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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
Setting Up WordPress and Customizing Settings Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Customizing Theme Design and Layout Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Plugins and Widgets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Publishing Site Content with the Gutenberg Editor Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Users and Permissions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting up a Blogging and Editorial Workflow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
WordPress as an Application Framework Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Improving Usability and Interactivity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building E-Commerce Sites with WooComerce Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Troubleshooting WordPress Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Handling Performance and Maintenance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Improving Site Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Promoting and Monetizing the Site Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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About This BookThis book can be considered the manual for WordPress 5. It covers nearly anything you need to know to run a site using the latest version of the software, from setting up to selling product. It will get you past the bumps in the road with troubleshooting tips and help you monetize your site.Who is This For?From the Preface, the author wrote this book for any web developer who wants to run a WordPress site or a more advanced web developer who wants to use WordPress functionality on their own site. They recommend that the reader know PHP, HTML, and CSS. Later in the preface, the author also recommends that you know some JavaScript.From my perspective, this is a good book for anyone with a basic understanding of software or web development who wants their own WordPress site, though a web design background would be helpful. I plan to use this book to better setup and improve my own WordPress site in the coming months.Why Was This Written?WordPress powers a strong minority (around 30%) of websites. It is an easy way to get started as a blogger or with an e-commerce site. This book is a great manual for anyone who wants to do either or any other use of the WordPress system. As I have not seen many other WordPress books (I admit I haven't really looked for them lately), this fills a void, and does it well.OrganizationThere is no overarching organization, which I normally look for, but this also isn't a book to learn from. It's a cookbook, where each chapter has a list of related recipes, or common issues or features, which shows you how to do one thing well. Within each recipe, you have a few sections that prepare for the recipe, how to use the feature or process, how it works internally, and sometimes a bit extra to extend the feature even more.Did This Book Succeed?I think the author did an amazing job with this book. They are clearly knowledgeable with the WordPress system and know what people might need to use. The prose is clear with screenshots showing every step. Everything is very clear and the recipes chosen are extremely useful to a wide range of readers.Rating and Final ThoughtsThis is a great book. It earns an easy 5 out of 5. It is very useful for anyone using WordPress. With this book, you will get your website up and running very quickly. I thank the author for writing this.
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Wordpress is quite popular website building platforms. The rapid development of the platform leads to the need for a regular release of books about it. The collection of recipes is one such book.The recipes given in the first chapters are quite obvious for a more or less trained user. But the most important thing is in the sections "How it works ..." and "There's more ...", which describes exactly what changes at the file and database level take place, when you set certain settings in the administrative panel. In practice, this information is needed if the configured setting does not work - you can quickly check whether changes have occurred at a low level.Some recipes mention the use of third party plugins. I don't know how justified it is - plugins may no longer be supported by their authors. On the other hand, plugins are an integral part of the Wordpress ecosystem, and a book would be incomplete without mentioning Woocommerce.In the given pieces of code, I did not find unnecessary characters (spaces, tabs, etc.), so they can be copied directly from the e-book. This speaks about the good work of the author and editors.The undoubted merit of this book is that new opportunities can be found. Usually, developers search the Internet for solutions to those problems that they have already encountered. In the book, under one cover, you can find unexpected opportunities, which is very good for professional development.It would be nice if the recipes in the Cookbook series were continuously numbered inside the book. This would make internal links easier to read, just mention the number.Since the book is aimed at intermediate users, no doubt Chapter 7 (WordPress as an Application Framework) will help them get to the advanced level of work. For example, until now I have used Django as an application framework, but I will try to develop in Wordpress.
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