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WordPress Web Application Development

You're reading from   WordPress Web Application Development Everyone it seems loves WordPress and this is your opportunity to take your existing design and development skills to the next stage. Learn in easy stages how to speedily build leading-edge web applications from scratch.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280759
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. WordPress As a Web Application Framework 2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database 4. The Building Blocks of Web Applications 5. Developing Pluggable Modules 6. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends 7. Adjusting Themes for Amazing Frontends 8. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins 9. Listening to Third-party Applications 10. Integrating and Finalizing the Portfolio Management Application A. Configurations, Tools, and Resources Index

Extending a database with custom tables

Default WordPress databases can be extended by any number of custom tables to suit our project requirements. The only thing we have to consider is the creation of custom tables over existing ones. We can think of two major reasons for creating custom tables:

  • Difficulty of matching data with existing tables: In the previous section, we considered real application requirements and matched the data with the existing tables. Unfortunately, it's not practical in all scenarios. Consider a system where the user purchases books from a shopping cart. We need to keep all the payment and order details for tracking purposes, and these records act as the transactions in the system. There is no way that we can find a compatible table for these kinds of requirements. Such requirements will be implemented using a collection of custom tables.
  • Increased data volume: As I mentioned earlier, the posts table plays a major role in web applications. When it comes to...
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