WordPress Development Quick Start Guide: Build beautiful and dynamic websites for your domain from scratch

Learn core WordPress concepts and components to create modern WordPress-based solutions

Key Features

• Learn the foundations of WordPress development and its hook-based architecture
• Choose the right components for any development task
• Build flexible solutions that works with existing plugins and themes

Book Description

WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large audience or build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way.

This book explains the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios. You begin by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Then you move into the most important aspects of the theme and plugin development process. Here you will also learn how themes and plugins fit into the website while learning about a range of techniques for extending themes and plugins.

With the basics covered, we explore many of the APIs provided by WordPress and how we can leverage them to build rapid solutions. Next, we move on to look at the techniques for capturing, processing, and displaying user data when integrating third-party components into the site design.

Finally, you will learn how to test and deploy your work with secure and maintainable code, while providing the best performance for end users.

What you will learn

• Explore the role of themes, plugins, and built-in features in development
• Adapt to built-in modules and built-in database structures
• Write code for WordPress's hook-based architecture
• Build, customize, and integrate WordPress plugins
• Extend themes with custom design templates
• Capture and process data with built-in features and custom forms
• Improve usability with AJAX and third-party components
• Manage non-functional aspects, such as security, performance, and migration

Who this book is for

This book is for web developers and site owners who want to build custom websites with WordPress. Basic knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS is required to get most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to WordPress Development
2. Managing Database Structure, Storage and Retrieval
3. Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development
4. Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development
5. Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters and Actions
6. Practical Usage of WordPress API's
7. Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms
8. Discovering Key Modules in Development
9. Enhancing Security, Performance and Maintainance

學習核心的WordPress概念和組件，以創建現代的基於WordPress的解決方案

主要特點
- 學習WordPress開發的基礎知識和基於鉤子的架構
- 選擇適合任何開發任務的正確組件
- 構建與現有插件和主題兼容的靈活解決方案

書籍描述
WordPress是世界上使用最廣泛的CMS，也是與大眾分享知識或建立有利可圖業務的理想方式。對於初學者開始進行WordPress開發常常是一個挑戰，而本書將幫助您找到方法。

本書解釋了WordPress開發中使用的組件，何時何地使用它們以及為什麼應該在特定情境中使用每個組件。您將首先學習WordPress的基本開發設置和編碼標準。然後，您將進入主題和插件開發過程的最重要方面。在這裡，您還將學習主題和插件如何適應網站，同時學習一系列擴展主題和插件的技術。

基礎知識掌握後，我們將探索WordPress提供的許多API，以及如何利用它們來構建快速解決方案。接下來，我們將研究在將第三方組件集成到網站設計時捕獲、處理和顯示用戶數據的技術。

最後，您將學習如何使用安全且易於維護的代碼測試和部署您的工作，同時為最終用戶提供最佳性能。

您將學到什麼
- 探索主題、插件和內建功能在開發中的角色
- 適應內建模塊和內建數據庫結構
- 為WordPress的基於鉤子的架構編寫代碼
- 構建、自定義和集成WordPress插件
- 通過自定義設計模板擴展主題
- 使用內建功能和自定義表單捕獲和處理數據
- 通過AJAX和第三方組件提高可用性
- 管理安全性、性能和遷移等非功能方面

本書適合對象
本書適合網站開發人員和網站擁有者，他們希望使用WordPress構建自定義網站。需要具備PHP、JavaScript、HTML和CSS的基本知識，以充分利用本書。

目錄
1. WordPress開發簡介
2. 管理數據庫結構、存儲和檢索
3. 使用主題開發設計靈活的前端
4. 使用插件開發構建自定義模塊
5. 通過插件擴展增加附加功能、過濾器和操作
6. WordPress API的實際應用
7. 管理自定義文章類型和處理表單
8. 發現開發中的關鍵模塊
9. 增強安全性、性能和維護