WordPress for Web Developers: An Introduction for Web Professionals

✍ Scribed by Stephanie Leary (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

WordPress for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building and administering sites with WordPress. This book is an update of Beginning WordPress 3, freshened and clarified for web developers who want to make the most of WordPress. You'll start by learning WordPress basics, including how to publish content, add media, and manage users.

Then you'll dig deeper into your WordPress server administration, including domain mapping, security, and importing and migrating. The book then steps up a gear with an introduction to developing for WordPress, perfect for developers and designers with some PHP experience, who want to learn to create custom themes and plugins.

WordPress is the most popular open source blogging and content management system in the world. Its flexible, user-friendly system can be extended with thousands of freely available themes and plugins. This book will teach you how to make the most of WordPress's built-in features, how to find the right themes and plugins for your projects, and how to build your own custom features. You'll learn to:

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Getting Started....Pages 1-12
Installing and Upgrading WordPress....Pages 13-30
Dashboard and Settings....Pages 31-48
Working with Content....Pages 49-80
Working with Themes....Pages 81-94
Working with Plugins....Pages 95-100
Working with Users....Pages 101-112
Setting Up Multisite Networks....Pages 113-124
Performance and Security....Pages 125-140
Importing Content and Migrating Sites....Pages 141-154
Beginning Theme and Plugin Development....Pages 155-178
Creating a Theme....Pages 179-246
Creating Plugins....Pages 247-290
Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Fields....Pages 291-324
Recommended Plugins....Pages 325-330
Community Resources....Pages 331-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-339

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general