WordPress: Pushing the Limits

WordPress: Pushing the Limits

Rachel McCollin

Language: English

Pages: 456

ISBN: 1118597192

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Take WordPress beyond its comfort zone

As the most popular open source blogging tool, WordPress is being used to power increasingly advanced sites, pushing it beyond its original purpose. In this unique book, the authors share their experiences and advice for working effectively with clients, manage a project team, develop with WordPress for larger projects, and push WordPress beyond its limits so that clients have the customized site they need in order to succeed in a competitive marketplace.

  • Explains that there is more than one approach to a WordPress challenge and shows you how to choose the one that is best for you, your client, and your team
  • Walks you through hosting and developing environments, theme building, and contingency planning
  • Addresses working with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and CSS

WordPress: Pushing the Limits encourages you to benefit from the experiences of seasoned WordPress programmers so that your client's site can succeed.

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customers while the site is down, add code similar to the following: This displays a Facebook logo link to visitors, as shown in Figure 2-5. Figure 2-5 Visitors will see a link to the client’s Facebook page ■ Custom CSS and images—The current teaser page is functional, but a bit drab. You have the option to upload a background image and a logo, which

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taxonomies that apply to the product so users know the sizes, colors, and so on in which it is available. To create this, you add a function to your single-product.php template file listing the taxonomies. The function to use to list the terms against each taxonomy is get_the_term_list(): This function takes the following parameters: ■ id—The post ID ■ taxonomy—The taxonomy whose terms you want to retrieve ■ before—The

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Use SFTP instead of FTP when uploading and downloading or editing site files. SFTP stands for Secure FTP and uses Secure Shell (SSH) to transfer files, encrypting both commands and data and making the file transfer process much more secure than straight FTP. ■ Use strong passwords. This is something you should particularly be encouraging your clients to do. You may even want to write it into your site support contract, stating that the client must use secure passwords in order to receive help

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