WordPress Development in Depth

Learn how to build a custom, secure, multilingual website with WordPressThis book shows you how to use plugins and themes from WordPress' thriving ecosystem to make a search-engine friendly website with advanced features.WordPress is more than a blogging platform-it powers one=fifth of all sites. Since its release, enthusiastic contributors have pushed the envelope to use it as a platform for building specialized social networks, e-commerce storefronts, business sites, and more. This guide helps you sort through the vast number of plugins available to find the ones that work for you. You'll also learn how to use CSS and PHP code to tailor WordPress to your needs further."From hosting and plugins to ecommerce, Peter MacIntyre has written a definitive guide to building with WordPress."Foreword by Matt MullenwegWordPress Development in Depth is a guide full of example code and advice based on the author's real-world experience working with the platform. Starting with how to plan your website and assess its requirements, it then touches on considerations for developing and hosting your site, how to use the Gutenberg editor, when to use custom code. Finally, it provides a survey of useful plugins to solve everyday problems.Topics covered include: Website planning and requirements gathering.Solutions for development environmentsIntroduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)The Gutenberg editorWriting a custom plugin with PHPCustomizing look-and-feel with child themesAdding internationalization to your pluginPlugins for tasks across sitesPlugins for advanced implementationsWritten by PHP professionals Peter MacIntyre and S?vio Resende, this book distills their experience building online solutions for other WordPress site builders, developers, and designers to leverage and get up to speed quickly.

Author:

Peter MacIntyre, S?vio Resende

Publisher:

php[architect]

Publication Date:

Aug 27, 2020

Number of pages:

228 pages

Language:

English

Binding:

Paperback

ISBN-10:

1940111838

ISBN-13:

9781940111834