Take Word Press beyond its comfort zone
As the most popular open source blogging tool, Word Press 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 Word Press for larger projects, and
push Word Press 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 Word Press
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, Java Script, and CSS
Word Press: Pushing the Limits encourages you to benefit
from the experiences of seasoned Word Press programmers so that your
client’s site can succeed.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction 1
Part I: Professional Word Press Development 5
Chapter 1 Word Press As a Professional Web Development Tool 7
Chapter 2 Kicking Off a Word Press Project 27
Part II Content and Administration 47
Chapter 3 Content Organization and Relationships 49
Chapter 4 Customizing the Word Press Admin 91
Part III Practicalities of Developing and Hosting Word Press
Sites 139
Chapter 5 Development and Hosting Environments 141
Chapter 6 Avoiding and Dealing with Disaster 165
Part IV Pushing the Limits: The Best Tools for Site
Development 191
Chapter 7 Theme Building: Frameworks, Standalone Themes, or
Child Themes? 193
Chapter 8 Conditional Display: Functions, Template Files, and
Styling 241
Chapter 9 Custom Functionality in Theme Functions and Plugins
273
Chapter 10 Making Your Site Soar: HTML, Java Script, and CSS
313
Chapter 11 Device Compatibility: Responsive and Mobile
Development 351
Chapter 12 Releasing Your Code to the Public 399
Index 429
Om författaren
Rachel Mc Collin comes from a learning and development background and started using her business experience to run a web design agency in 2010. She soon realized that developing sites with Word Press would meet her clients’ needs better than building static sites and now develops exclusively with Word Press.