Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern

Professional Wordpress

Design and Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The highest rated WordPress development and design book on themarket is back with an all new third edition.
Professional WordPress is the only WordPress booktargeted to developers, with advanced content that exploits thefull functionality of the most popular CMS in the world. Fullyupdated to align with WordPress 4.1, this edition has updatedexamples with all new screenshots, and full exploration ofadditional tasks made possible by the latest tools and features.You will gain insight into real projects that currently useWordPress as an application framework, as well as the basic usageand functionality of the system from a developer s perspective. Thebook s key features include detailed information and real-worldexamples that illustrate the concepts and techniques at work, pluscode downloads and examples accessible through the companionwebsite. Written by practicing WordPress developers, the content ofthis edition focuses on real world application of WordPressconcepts that extend beyond the current WordPress version.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhancethe typography of everyday writing, and has grown to be the largestself-hosted website platform in the world. This book helps you useWordPress efficiently, effectively, and professionally, with newideas 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-worldprojects
Discover how to migrate existing websites to WordPress
Understand current best practices and tools in WordPressdevelopment
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 systemthrough thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes. ProfessionalWordPress is the essential developer s guide to thismultifunctional system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 861g
• ISBN-13: 9781118987247
• ISBN-10: 1118987241
• Artikelnr.: 41253038

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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