Professional WordPress

Professional WordPress

Hal Stern, David Damstra, Brad Williams

Language: English

Pages: 412

ISBN: 111844227X

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


An in-depth look at the internals of the WordPress system. As the most popular blogging and content management platform available today, WordPress is a powerful tool. This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional aspects of WordPress as well as plug-in and theme development.

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here, although keep in mind the previously mentioned limitations. The easiest way to accomplish this is to copy the template file you want to modify from the parent theme directory into your child theme directory and then modify as needed. For example, the author template in the Twenty Eleven theme is perfectly functional, but suppose you want to change the size of the author image in this template. Again, this is an intentionally simple example and there are many ways to copy this. First,

stub out an information architecture of post categories, pages, and parent pages that will align with client’s outline and make creating the site a smoother operation. This also allows the client to see the layout of the site with dummy copy, such as lorem ipsum, early in the process to make any structural changes as needed. Once upon a time, there was a golden rule for websites that no page in your site should be more than three mouse clicks deep. This was back in the days when dialup

asking what users associate with mainstream CMS. Two major components to workflow within WordPress exist: post revision history and post control. Revision history is visible within the Post portion of the Dashboard, where entering edit mode on a post shows you the list of revisions. If you’re running a system with multiple authors and editors, where the editors may fine-tune the first writing output, ensure that the editorial staff is using the revision feature to track content added,

WordPress. A hierarchical post type allows you to have a tree-like structure for your post type content. By default, this argument is set to false. has_archive This enables your post type to have an archive page. A post type archive page is like the WordPress posts page, which displays the site’s latest blog entries. This allows you to display a list of your post type entries, with the order being defined in your theme’s template file. can_export This determines if the post type

7-3. FIGURE 7-3: Custom taxonomy menu option Clicking this new menu item brings you to the custom taxonomy admin panel for types, shown in Figure 7-4. This admin panel works exactly as the post categories admin panel does. Here you can create new taxonomy terms, edit and delete existing terms, find how many products are assigned to each, and also search taxonomy terms. FIGURE 7-4: Custom taxonomy admin panel The final new item added for your custom taxonomy is a meta box on the product

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