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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide
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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
October 2018
Beginner
300 pages
8h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Identifying theme components that are used in existing sites

As we have already discussed, developing themes from scratch is not a main requirement in small to medium sites that are built with WordPress. On most occasions, developers will have to work in existing sites with existing themes that have been chosen by the owner. So, you should have the skills to look at any given post/page in the site, and then identify the templates and theme components used in order to rapidly convert the requirements into solutions. Let's take a look at the process of identifying important theme components that are displayed in posts or pages:

  • Menus: In existing sites, we need to be able to identify the menus in certain screens in order to customize them. ...
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