Book Description
Explore built-in WordPress features and the power of advanced plugins and themes for building modern websites using exciting recipes
Key Features
- 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
Book Description
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.
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
Who this book is 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.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Setting Up WordPress and Customizing Settings
- Technical requirements
- Managing media files with the Media Library
- Setting up the discussion process
- Creating and managing a privacy policy
- Customizing default WordPress emails
- Configuring the structure of permalinks
- Setting up WordPress Multisite
- Creating a new site in a multisite network
- Managing multisite themes and plugins
- Cloning a site in a multisite installation
- Customizing Theme Design and Layout
- Technical requirements
- 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 
- Using Plugins and Widgets
- Technical requirements
- Managing widgets in widget areas
- Creating a simple widget from scratch
- Creating additional widget areas
- Displaying conditional widgets with built-in tags
- Displaying widgets inside of posts and pages
- Modifying plugin files with the built-in Plugin Editor
- Working with custom PHP codes
- Manually deactivating plugins
- Customizing WordPress plugins with actions and filters
- Publishing Site Content with the Gutenberg Editor
- Adding and removing Gutenberg blocks
- Using the Visual and Code editors with the block editor
- Creating reusable Gutenberg blocks
- Styling built-in content blocks
- Embedding content from external services
- Simplifying block editing with Gutenberg tools
- Adding a post grid with Gutenberg
- Adding a contact form using Gutenberg
- Managing Users and Permissions
- Technical requirements
- Enabling new user registrations
- Managing user roles and permissions
- Assigning user roles to existing users
- Creating a custom role and setting up a default role
- Improving user profiles with additional fields
- Managing the visibility of the admin toolbar 
- Adding custom features to the user list
- Displaying online users
- Adding email activation for new user accounts
- Switching users
- Displaying recently registered users
- Creating a frontend user list and search
- Setting up a Blogging and Editorial Workflow
- Technical requirements
- Publishing and scheduling blog posts
- Displaying author profiles in posts
- Enabling frontend post publishing
- Modifying a user list to show author publishing details
- Managing custom post statuses
- Setting up a discussion between authors and editors
- Splitting a single post into multiple parts
- Creating private posts for specific users
- Adding ratings to blog posts
- Podcasting with WordPress
- WordPress as an Application Framework
- Technical requirements
- Managing advanced data with custom post types
- Creating and managing advanced post fields
- Working with WordPress loop
- Displaying advanced post fields
- Restricting post/page content with shortcode
- Capturing data with dynamic forms
- Creating custom routes
- Storing custom data in existing tables
- Creating and managing custom tables
- Using the REST API
- Improving Usability and Interactivity
- Technical requirements
- Creating a mobile-friendly site
- Adding print, PDF, and email buttons to posts
- Customizing WordPress search
- Displaying a frontend login form
- Optimizing images
- Lazy loading posts with Ajax
- Highlighting the search term in the search results
- Creating breadcrumbs for better navigation
- Adding an image gallery to pages
- Allowing testimonials on your site
- Integrating a forum into your site
- Building E-Commerce Sites with WooComerce
- Technical requirements
- Setting up an e-commerce site with WooCommerce
- Creating and displaying a product
- Creating orders and managing order statuses
- Displaying WooCommerce products on custom pages
- Building custom product types
- Customizing the shop template
- Customizing the product page template
- Troubleshooting WordPress
- Technical requirements 
- Configuring error logs and displaying errors
- Fixing the WSoD
- Resolving conflicts in maintenance mode
- Manually resetting user passwords
- Fixing slow WordPress sites
- Fixing issues with cached content
- Resolving WordPress core database issues
- Resolving JavaScript errors
- Fixing issues caused by theme/plugin upgrades
- Handling Performance and Maintenance
- Technical requirements
- Limiting post revisions
- Creating and scheduling database backups
- Restoring database backups
- Tracking site activities
- Identifying and resolving broken site links
- Backing up site files and uploads
- Cleaning unused data from the database
- Setting up maintenance mode
- Migrating WordPress sites to new servers
- Migrating from Drupal to WordPress
- Migrating from Joomla to WordPress
- Improving Site Security
- Technical requirements
- Upgrading the WordPress version
- Disabling plugin and theme file editing
- Protecting backend logins by limiting login attempts
- Creating automatically expiring user passwords
- Securing user accounts
- Forcing logout for all users
- Protecting user accounts with two-factor authentication
- Protecting private sites with a global password
- Limiting site access to certain IPs
- Securing database user accounts
- Testing site security issues
- Promoting and Monetizing the Site
- Technical requirements
- Enabling visibility for search engines
- Optimizing pings to third-party services
- Creating an XML sitemap
- Optimizing content for search engines
- Adding social sharing buttons to posts
- Building an audience with newsletters
- Building a landing page with a page builder
- Integrating Google Analytics
- Monetizing the site with custom ad spots
- Integrating Google AdSense for displaying ads
- Appendix
- Other Books You May Enjoy