WordPress is a growing program. More and more people are turning to it as their blog, website and CMS format. As a website developer you need to know what features exist in WordPress that require your assistance to customize WordPress
What do you mean developers features?
Content Management System
These features require changing codes and having more than a basic knowledge of WordPress. Often these are the people who set up WordPress sites for others or create sites or themes. Yet many users of WordPress have heard about these features and wonder how they can add them to customize WordPress based websites.
Multi-Site Feature
Combining WordPress MU with WordPress you now can install WordPress once and create many websites. This means you can install one WordPress website and allow hundreds of your clients to run their own sites. All it takes is adding one line of code to the WordPress configuration file and having a server that is strong enough to handle the added load. After adding it you will have a Network tab under your Tools tab.
Author Templates
This is a feature blogs with multiple authors have been wanting. It allows each author on a blog to have their own template. This requires creating new author.php template files, yet one can be created for each author. With multiple author websites this customization allows viewers and authors a unique experience.
Custom Post Types
Sometimes you do no want to use posts or pages for your next WordPress entry. With other content management systems you have other options, but you can add new post types by adding code to the functions.php file. Then you can add as many new types as is necessary. These new post types will appear beneath the comments on your dashboard.
Custom Taxonomies
These are available again by adding some custom code. They can be added beneath one of your new post types to add a different type of tag. One example would be having a post type called books and creating an author taxonomy. Thus different book posts could be assigned to the respective author taxonomy. The new taxonomies will appear beneath the post type to which they are assigned.
Further Developer Functions
If you create themes or templates, adding some of the new functions for your users is easier than ever. The custom background functionality takes a line of code to the functions file. Custom headers takes a bit more coding. The new menu function requires just a few lines of code, but can really make your theme more popular with new users.
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