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WordPress for Web Developers

An Introduction for Web Professionals

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Stephanie Leary
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  • Press for Web Developers is a complete guide for web designers and developers who want to begin building sites with Word.

  • You'll learn how to publish content, add media, manage users, and keep your site secure.

  • Developers with a little PHP experience can learn to create custom themes and plugins.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Getting Started

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 1-12

  3. Installing and Upgrading WordPress

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 13-30

  4. Dashboard and Settings

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 31-48

  5. Working with Content

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 49-80

  6. Working with Themes

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 81-94

  7. Working with Plugins

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 95-100

  8. Working with Users

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 101-112

  9. Setting Up Multisite Networks

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 113-124

  10. Performance and Security

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 125-140

  11. Importing Content and Migrating Sites

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 141-154

  12. Beginning Theme and Plugin Development

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 155-178

  13. Creating a Theme

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 179-246

  14. Creating Plugins

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 247-290

  15. Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Fields

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 291-324

  16. Recommended Plugins

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 325-330

  17. Community Resources

    • Stephanie Leary
    Pages 331-332

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 333-339
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About this book

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:

     

    About the author

    Stephanie Leary has been building sites with WordPress since 2004, and has always used WordPress for more than just blogs. She worked at Texas A&M University for over ten years, where she established accessibility and web standards and pioneered the use of blogging software (first Movable Type, then WordPress) as full content management systems for departments websites. Stephanie is now a full-time freelance WordPress developer. She is a frequent speaker at higher education conferences, WordPress Meetups, and WordCamps. In between conferences, she can be found giving concise WordPress tips on Twitter.

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