Book description
Your full-color guide to creating dynamic websites with WordPressAre you familiar with the fundamentals of WordPress, but want to take your skills to the next level? From bestselling author and WordPress expert Lisa Sabin-Wilson, this new edition of WordPress Web Design For Dummies quickly gets you up to speed on the latest release of the software and shows you how to use it as a tool to create a customized, compelling, and cost-effective website—without losing your cool.
WordPress can be used to create a custom design for your website using complimentary technologies such as graphic design, CSS, HTML coding, PHP programming, and MySQL administration. With the help of this hands-on, friendly guide, you'll discover how to create an effective navigation system, choose the right color palette and fonts, and select different layouts. Plus, you'll find out how to tweak existing website designs with available themes, both free and premium, and gain the confidence to translate your design skills into paid work.
- Create dynamic, custom websites with the self-hosted version of WordPress
- Use free themes and enhance them with CSS and HTML
- Create a responsive design for mobile devices and tablet users
- Get to grips with the newest release of WordPress
Whether you want to use WordPress to spruce up your existing website or create a brand-new one from scratch, this do-it-yourself guide has you covered.
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
- Part I: Establishing a WordPress Foundation
- Part II: Choosing the Right Tools
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Part III: Working with WordPress Themes
- Chapter 9: Finding and Installing a WordPress Theme
- Chapter 10: Working with the Default Theme: Twenty Fifteen
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Chapter 11: Dissecting Themes and Templates
- Understanding How PHP and MySQL Work Together
- Exploring PHP Basics
- Managing Your MySQL Database
- Viewing the Template Files in a WordPress Theme
- Examining the Templates That Make Up a WordPress Theme
- Exploring Template Tags, Values, and Parameters
- Customizing Your Blog Posts with Template Tags
- Putting It All Together
- Chapter 12: Displaying Content with Widgets and Template Tags
- Chapter 13: Understanding Parent and Child Themes
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Part IV: Building Your Custom Website
- Chapter 14: Using Basic CSS and HTML to Customize Your Site Design
- Chapter 15: Designing for WordPress as a CMS
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Chapter 16: Enhancing Your Website with Plugins
- Installing WordPress Plugins via the Dashboard
- Installing Plugins Manually
- Exploring E-Commerce Plugins to Use on Your Site
- Creating Photo Galleries or Portfolios
- Creating Web Forms for Your Site with Plugins
- Building a Social Community with BuddyPress
- Using Plugins to Integrate Popular Social Networks with Your Blog
- Part V: The Part of Tens
- About the Author
- Cheat Sheet
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: WordPress Web Design For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119088646
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