WordPress is slowly but surely approaching as a framework for web application development. Developers are getting started on building larger applications by customizing existing modules and features. However, there are a lot of limitations and a lack of resources for web development-related tasks. So, the best practices and design patterns are yet to be defined for building applications with WordPress.
In this book, we developed an application structure, considering the best practices of a general web application development. The WordPress architecture is different from the typical PHP frameworks, and hence this structure might not be the best solution. As developers, we want to drive WordPress into a fully featured web application framework.
In this chapter, we completed the development of the demo forum application for this book. So, feel free to innovate your own application structures and the...