Adapting existing tables into web applications
Unlike content management systems, web applications have the possibility of scaling infinitely as they become popular and stable. Such systems can contain hundreds of database tables to cater to various aspects. Here, we are trying to build such applications using this popular CMS framework. Therefore, we need to figure out the features that we can build using the existing tables and the features that should need their own table structures.
We should try to maximize the use of existing tables in every possible scenario to get the most out of WordPress. Built-in database access functions are optimized to work directly with the existing tables, allowing us to minimize the time for implementation. On the other hand, we need to write custom queries from scratch to work with newly created tables. Let's find out the possible ways of adapting the existing tables using the four categories we discussed in the previous section.
