Customize WordPress Themes without Breaking Anything: & How to Fix Things If You Do

by Ryan Carter

Once you've learned the basics of WordPress, and you know how to get around, then what? What if you want to alter your theme to fine tune your site and get exactly what you want? Remove a sidebar, or change widget formatting? What if you want to change colors and the theme doesn't offer it as an option in the Customize menu? These are the types of problems that WordPress site owners deal with in the real world every day. We know, because we've been helping people get what they want since WordPress version 1.

If you make any theme edits, it can break the whole site, and even something as simple as updating the theme will erase your changes and you're back to square one. These are just quirks of the WordPress system that are not simple to solve if you haven't dealt with them before. There are tried and true ways to do this stuff, but almost no one even talks about it. Most tutorials assume too much about your problem and don't understand that it needs to be explained much better than they do. That's why we've focused on giving you all the info start to finish A to Z so you can do this stuff yourself, but without the issues that come with it.

This book will give you the simple steps to make any edits you want without breaking anything. Even if something goes wrong, you'll find out how to setup the best free automatic backup solution that leaves all the others in the dust, so you can save and restore any part of your WordPress site anytime you need to, including content, users, database, plugins, image uploads and themes.

You may have heard that child themes are the way to go (which is true), but we'll cover the dead simple way to do it without writing any code at all. You'll have one ready to go in less than five minutes if you follow this guide, which will save you so much hassle.

All the way through this book, you'll find plenty of annotated screenshots that explain everything you need to do step by step, including common issues you may run into, and how to fix them. We're available to help if you get stuck or can't figure out how to move forward. What good is a book unless you can contact the author for more info or answer questions? Simply check the info listed at the end of the book to get in touch with us. We'd love to help.

Thank you for your interest in our book, and good luck with learning how to use WordPress, whether you buy this book or not. We love the WordPress community and the spirit of goodwill in sharing solutions and we hope you do as well. Have a great day!

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2017

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