🚀 Mastering WordPress: Advanced Techniques & Beyond

Unleash the full potential of the WordPress platform with Smashing WordPress 🚀! This guide sparks creativity to help you build stunning, powerful sites that go beyond the ordinary.

The second edition is fully updated for WordPress 3.1+ and covers new features like custom post types, the admin bar, and many more useful tools 🛠️. Master the core concepts to build anything with WordPress—faster deployments and greater design flexibility await!

Inside, WordPress expert Thord Daniel Hedengren takes you beyond blogging and demonstrates how WordPress can serve as a CMS, photo gallery 📸, e-commerce site 🛒, and much more. This edition includes new and upgraded examples of innovative WordPress usage.

You Will Learn How To:

• Build Beautiful WordPress Themes, including Child Themes 🎨
• Create Custom Login Forms and Admin Themes 🔐
• Use The Loop to Control Content 🔁
• Build Plugins, including Widget Functionality ⚙️
• Use Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies 📂
• Use Post Formats 📝
• Integrate WordPress with the Social Web 🌐
• Use Conditional Control Elements 🧩
• Integrate Theme Options ⚡
• Build Your WordPress Projects for SEO 🔍

Thord Daniel Hedengren is a professional web designer and developer who has created numerous WordPress themes, developed plugins, and used WordPress to power both blogs and major editorial sites 📰. He is the former editor of the Blog Herald, a popular resource for bloggers and WordPress users.

Visit www.wiley.com/go/smashingwordpress2e to download the code examples 💻.

Smashing Magazine (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the world’s most popular web design online magazines 🌍. True to the Smashing Magazine book series, this book delivers useful and innovative information to web designers and developers.

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