WordPress

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.

Autorentext
Rachel McCollin 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 WordPress would meet her clients' needs better than building static sites and now develops exclusively with WordPress.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhalt

Introduction 1

Part I: Professional WordPress Development 5

Chapter 1 WordPress As a Professional Web Development Tool 7

Chapter 2 Kicking Off a WordPress Project 27

Part II Content and Administration 47

Chapter 3 Content Organization and Relationships 49

Chapter 4 Customizing the WordPress Admin 91

Part III Practicalities of Developing and Hosting WordPress
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, JavaScript, and CSS
313

Chapter 11 Device Compatibility: Responsive and Mobile
Development 351

Chapter 12 Releasing Your Code to the Public 399

Index 429