Wordpress 4.x Complete - Softcover

Krol, Karol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784390909 ISBN 13: 9781784390907

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Get your website up and running and beautify it with WordPress

About This Book

• Build a WordPress site quickly and effectively
• Create impressive WordPress themes and plugins and get to know how it works
• Expand the features of WordPress to create non-blogging websites and administer them

Who This Book Is For

If you want a website at low cost, without the need to hire a team of developers and designers, then this book is for you. It will help you take your first steps into the world of website creation.

What You Will Learn

• Launch your website quickly with the help of a quick WordPress installation guide
• Create content that is optimized for publishing on the Web
• Create a quality website with a proper assembly of important subpages
• Install and work with plugins and widgets
• Install and create attractive themes for your website
• Create custom menus to improve the user experience of your website
• Upload multimedia content such as images, audio, and video easily and effectively
• Build your first plugins and widgets to add features to your website
• Expand the features of WordPress for creating non-blogging websites and administer them

In Detail

With WordPress, anyone can build an optimized website with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time.

This book will serve as a practical guide for everyone who intends to become an online publisher, website owner, or even a website developer. Beginning with the basic features of WordPress, the book lays a solid foundation to deal with advanced and complex features. It then moves on to helping you choose and install various themes.

Gradually, with increasing complexity, the book goes into the development of your own themes, acting as a beginner's guide to theme and plugin development.

Concluding the learning curve with miscellaneous tasks such as community blogging and administrating the established site, this book empowers you with the ability to maintain your site.

About this title

About the Author:

Karol Krol

Karol Krol is a WordPress developer, PHP programming specialist, professional blogger, and writer. He has been building expertise in WordPress ever since his early years at Silesian University of Technology, Poland, where he graduated with a master's degree in computer science. Early in his career, he worked as a freelance website developer for several years. Later, he decided to shift his focus toward popularizing WordPress as the perfect solution for all web-based projects and devoted his time to developing his writing career. His articles have been featured on websites such as NewInternetOrder.com, About.com, MarketingProfs.com, SmashingMagazine.com, ProBlogger.net, Six Revisions, Web Design Ledger, and many more. Currently, Karol's two main projects are providing business advice to normal people online through his website at http://newinternetorder.com/ (normal people who don't have hours upon hours of time to spend sitting on their computer, watching yet another business training and trying to figure things out in the middle of the night), and offering his writing services through his main hub at http://karol.cc/.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784390909
• ISBN 13: 9781784390907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412