Author’s Note

This book is intended to provide everything you need to know to start, run, and maintain a website using WordPress software. It should be noted, however, that no book can be truly complete where WordPress is concerned. That is because software developers are continually adjusting, modifying, and updating WordPress and its addons. Developers also are creating new addons and abandoning old ones, in the form of visual themes and plugins. Those options number in the thousands, and this book gives details on only a handful.

Also, because the software is open source — meaning, essentially, that anyone can use it and modify it — a really complete book on WordPress would tell you how to write code in the PHP language and how to write ...

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