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WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition

You're reading from WordPress Complete, Sixth Edition A comprehensive guide to WordPress development from scratch

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787285705

Length 412 pages

Edition 6th Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing WordPress FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with WordPress

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 Started with WordPress

This chapter will guide you through the process of setting up WordPress and customizing its basic features. You can choose between a couple of options regarding where your WordPress website will live. WordPress is relatively small (less than 10 MB) as well as easy to install and administer.

WordPress is available in easily downloadable formats at https://wordpress.org/download/. WordPress is a free, open-source application and is released under GNU General Public License (GPL) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License. This means that anyone who produces a modified version of the software released under the GPL is required to maintain the same freedom and that people buying or using the software can also modify and redistribute it. Thus, WordPress and other software released under the GPL are maintained as open source. In this chapter...

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