WordPress: Pushing the Limits

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Professional WordPress Development
Chapter 1: WordPress As a Professional Web Development Tool
Chapter 2: Kicking Off a WordPress Project

Part II: Content and Administration
Chapter 3: Content Organization and Relationships
Chapter 4: Customizing the WordPress Admin

Part III: Practicalities of Developing and Hosting WordPress Sites
Chapter 5: Development and Hosting Environments
Chapter 6: Avoiding and Dealing with Disaster

Part IV: Pushing the Limits: The Best Tools for Site Development
Chapter 7: Theme Building: Frameworks, Standalone Themes, or Child Themes?
Chapter 8: Conditional Display: Functions, Template Files, and Styling
Chapter 9: Custom Functionality in Theme Functions and Plugins
Chapter 10: Making Your Site Soar: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Chapter 11: Device Compatibility: Responsive and Mobile Development
Chapter 12: Releasing Your Code to the Public