Book description
The highly praised resource returns with updated content, examples, and code downloads
WordPress is the most popular self-hosted open source website software in use today, and the latest version makes it even simpler to operate. Packed with real-world examples for load balancing and multiusers, this esteemed resource replaces some of the more basic material with more advanced content. Every single chapter has been reworked to provide the most current and proper methods for developing and designing in WordPress. Coverage of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and new chapters on custom post types, custom taxonomies, Multisite, and extensions of themes bring the content of this book completely up-to-date and provides you with all you need to deploy successful WordPress sites.
Offers an overview of the WordPress system and describes what happens when a WordPress-generated web page is displayed
Demonstrates extending WordPress through plugins and customizing it via themes
Combines a developer view of user experience and optimization with the deployment requirements for performance, security, and measurement
Includes code downloads and code samples from the book's website
You'll be hard pressed to find a reliable resource with more advanced content than Professional WordPress, Second Edition!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Chapter 1: First Post
- Chapter 2: Code Overview
- Chapter 3: Working with Wordpress Locally
- Chapter 4: Tour of the Core
- Chapter 5: The Loop
- Chapter 6: Data Management
- Chapter 7: Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, and Metadata
- Chapter 8: Plugin Development
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Chapter 9: Theme Development
- Why Use a Theme?
- Installing a Theme
- What Is a Theme?
- Creating Your Own Theme
- Creating Your Own Theme: Getting Started
- Creating Your Own Theme: DRY
- Creating Your Own Theme: Content Display
- Creating Your Own Theme: Additional Files
- Custom Page Templates
- Other Theme Enhancements
- Theme Hierarchy and Child Themes
- Premium Themes and Other Theme Frameworks
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Multisite
- Chapter 11: Content Aggregation
- Chapter 12: Crafting a User Experience
- Chapter 13: Statistics, Scalability, Security, and Spam
- Chapter 14: Wordpress as a Content Management System
- Chapter 15: Wordpress in the Enterprise
- Chapter 16: Wordpress Developer Community
- Introduction
- Advertisements
Product information
- Title: Professional WordPress: Design and Development, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2013
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9781118442272
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