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More About This Title Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3e
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Professional WordPress is the only WordPress book targeted to developers, with advanced content that exploits the full functionality of the most popular CMS in the world. Fully updated to align with WordPress 4.1, this edition has updated examples with all new screenshots, and full exploration of additional tasks made possible by the latest tools and features. You will gain insight into real projects that currently use WordPress as an application framework, as well as the basic usage and functionality of the system from a developer's perspective. The book's key features include detailed information and real-world examples that illustrate the concepts and techniques at work, plus code downloads and examples accessible through the companion website. Written by practicing WordPress developers, the content of this edition focuses on real world application of WordPress concepts that extend beyond the current WordPress version.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing, and has grown to be the largest self-hosted website platform in the world. This book helps you use WordPress efficiently, effectively, and professionally, with new ideas and expert perspectives on full system exploitation.
- Get up to speed on the new features in WordPress 4.1
- Learn cutting edge uses of WordPress, including real-world projects
- Discover how to migrate existing websites to WordPress
- Understand current best practices and tools in WordPress development
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL, and has evolved to be used as a full content management system through thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes. Professional WordPress is the essential developer's guide to this multifunctional system.
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Brad Williams is the cofounder of WebDevStudios.com and AppPresser.com, a cohost of the DradCast WordPress podcast, and the coauthor of Professional WordPress Plugin Development.
David Damstra is Vice President of Marketing Services and Creative Director for CU*Answers where his team of developers empowers clients with WordPress.
Hal Stern is an IT executive with a major healthcare company. He is coauthor of Blueprints for High Availability, also from Wiley.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
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INTRODUCTION xxxi
CHAPTER 1: FIRST POST 1
What Is WordPress? 1
Popularity of WordPress 3
Content and Conversation 6
Getting Started 7
Finishing Up 18
Summary 21
CHAPTER 2: CODE OVERVIEW 23
Downloading 23
Directory and File Structure 25
WordPress Configuration 26
wp-content User Playground 40
Summary 42
CHAPTER 3: WORKING WITH WORDPRESS LOCALLY 43
Benefits of Working Locally 43
Tools for Component Administration 46
Configuration Details 48
Virtual Machines 56
Deploying Local Changes 57
Summary 59
CHAPTER 4: TOUR OF THE CORE 61
What’s in the Core? 61
Using the Core as a Reference 62
WordPress Codex and Code Reference 70
Don’t Hack the Core! 77
Summary 78
CHAPTER 5: THE LOOP 79
Understanding the Loop 80
Template Tags 86
Customizing the Loop 88
Global Variables 102
Working Outside the Loop 106
Summary 109
CHAPTER 6: DATA MANAGEMENT 111
Database Schema 111
Table Details 113
WordPress Database Class 117
Direct Database Manipulation 123
Summary 126
CHAPTER 7: CUSTOM POST TYPES, CUSTOM TAXONOMIES, AND METADATA 127
Understanding Data in WordPress 127
WordPress Taxonomy 138
Building Your Own Taxonomies 140
Metadata 146
Community Projects 150
Summary 151
CHAPTER 8: PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT 153
Plugin Packaging 154
Plugin Security 161
Know Your Hooks: Actions and Filters 166
Plugin Settings 171
WordPress Integration 186
Creating a Plugin Example 201
Publishing to the Plugin Directory 222
Summary 230
CHAPTER 9: THEME DEVELOPMENT 231
Why Use a Theme? 231
Installing a Theme 232
What Is a Theme? 234
CSS 234
Creating Your Own Theme 235
Creating Your Own Theme: Getting Started 237
Creating Your Own Theme: DRY 241
Creating Your Own Theme: Content Display 245
Creating Your Own Theme: Additional Files 258
Custom Page Templates 266
Other Theme Enhancements 269
Theme Hierarchy and Child Themes 275
Premium Themes and Other Theme Frameworks 279
Summary 281
CHAPTER 10: MULTISITE 283
What Is Multisite? 283
Working in a Network 286
Coding for Multisite 290
Multisite Database Schema 312
Summary 314
CHAPTER 11: MIGRATING TO WORDPRESS 315
Understanding the Process 316
Content Identification 318
Media Migration 329
Moving Metadata 330
Moving Authors and Users 330
Theme and Presentation 331
Unique Functionality 331
Cleaning Up 331
Launching 334
WP-CLI 334
Migration Example 335
Summary 337
CHAPTER 12: CRAFTING A USER EXPERIENCE 339
User Experience Principles 339
Usability and Usability Testing 346
Structuring Your Information 347
Getting Your Site Found 349
How Web Standards Get Your Data Discovered 354
Searching Your Own Site 361
Mobile Access and Responsive Web Design 364
Summary 367
CHAPTER 13: SECURING WORDPRESS 369
Securing Your WordPress Site 369
Using WordPress Roles 375
Recommended Security Plugins 378
Summary 379
CHAPTER 14: APPLICATION FRAMEWORK 381
What Is an Application Framework? 381
Summary 390
CHAPTER 15: WORDPRESS IN THE REAL WORLD 391
Is WordPress the Right Tool? 391
When WordPress Is Not the Right Tool 393
Defining Content Management 394
Workflow and Delegation 395
Workflow 396
Content Organization 398
Interactivity Features 404
Scalability 406
Statistics Counters 411
Cache Management 413
Load Balancing Your WordPress Site 421
Dealing with Spam 423
Other Content Management Systems 425
Summary 427
CHAPTER 16: WORDPRESS DEVELOPER COMMUNITY 429
Contributing to WordPress 429
Sister Projects 435
Resources 436
Summary 443
INDEX 445
