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Best Practices of Wordpress
Customization
• Use Child Theme:
Most of the people make changes to a core theme and when
they change that theme those changes are lost. But if you
make changes in the core of that theme i.e. the child theme
than those changes will not be lost.
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Best Practices of Wordpress
Customization
• Search for Correct Theme for your Website
Why spend endless hours customizing what is already freely
available. Or may be you can make slight changes to some
theme to make it usable according to your requirements.
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Best Practices of Wordpress
Customization
• Follow correct order for customization
Find if another theme can fulfill your requirements.
Change the design using CSS.
If required make structural changes using functions.php.
Add a new template file to your child theme.
Plugins should be used only for major feature additions, as
adding more plugins may slow down your website.
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Best Practices of Wordpress
Customization
• Test your Website on all Major Browsers
Your user may be using a different platform than you have
built your website on. So it is necessary to test your website
on all the major browsers.