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Customize with Hooks, Shortcodes, and Widgets

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Now that you have dealt with the main structural elements of setting up your WordPress theme, you can start to look at ways of adding customizable and dynamic content for your users to control. To do this, you’ll look at three features in WordPress that have been added for these purposes: hooks, shortcodes, and widgets.

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Onishi, A. (2013). Customize with Hooks, Shortcodes, and Widgets. In: Pro WordPress Theme Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5915-2_6

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