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Pro WordPress Theme Development

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  • © 2013

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  1. Adam Onishi
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Getting Started

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 1-16

  3. Theme Anatomy and Template Hierarchy

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 17-43

  4. Content Options and the Loop

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 45-77

  5. Using Custom Post Types

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 79-108

  6. Creating Custom Taxonomies and Fields

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 109-151

  7. Customize with Hooks, Shortcodes, and Widgets

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 153-191

  8. Theme Options and the Theme Customizer

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 193-230

  9. Users, Roles, and Capabilities

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 231-271

  10. Plugins: When the Time Is Right

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 273-295

  11. Security and Performance

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 297-332

  12. Distributing Your Theme

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 333-357

  13. Extending Your Theme

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 359-392

  14. Plugin Development

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 393-437

  15. WordPress Multisite

    • Adam Onishi
    Pages 439-462

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 463-470
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About this book

Pro WordPress Theme Development is your comprehensive guide to creating advanced WordPress themes. Designed for for professional web designers and developers who are comfortable with PHP and WordPress, this book teaches you every aspect of professional theme development.

You will learn how to build themes from scratch, how to monetize the themes you create, and how to capitalize on this by creating advanced themes for your clients or selling premium themes. This book builds on your current knowledge of PHP and web development to create a WordPress theme from scratch. It uses a real-world theme example that you can build, to demonstrate each feature in a practical way. It shows you how to take control of WordPress with custom posts types and taxonomies, and covers anatomy and hierarchy, use of the loop, hooks, short codes, plug-ins and much more.

WordPress is one of the most successful open-source blogging and content management systems available, and theme development has become a major part of the WordPress ecosystem. Start working with WordPress themes like a pro today with Pro WordPress Theme Development.

About the author

Adam Onishi is a professional web developer now living and working in London, England. His love of WordPress began at his first agency in Oxford developing custom themes for clients. Since then he has produced 100s of themes to varying degrees of client requirement and over the years learned how to get the best out of the open source content management system that powers millions of websites across the world.

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