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Wordpress Web Application  Development

You're reading from   Wordpress Web Application Development Building robust web apps easily and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126800
Length 536 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. WordPress as a Web Application Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features 3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database 4. Building Blocks of Web Applications 5. Implementing Application Content Restrictions 6. Developing Pluggable Modules 7. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends 8. Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends 9. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins 10. Listening to Third-Party Applications 11. Integrating and Finalizing the Forum Management Application 12. Supplementary Modules for Web Development 13. Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends

Generally, users who visit web applications don't have any clue about the functionality, accuracy, or quality of the code of the application. Instead, they decide the value of the application based on its user interfaces and the simplicity of using its features. Most expert-level web developers tend to give more focus on development tasks in complex applications. However, the application's design plays a vital role in building the initial user base. WordPress uses themes that allow you to create the frontend of web applications with highly extendable features that go beyond conventional layout designs. Developers and designers should have the capability to turn default WordPress themes into amazing frontends for web applications.

In this chapter, we will focus on the extendable capabilities of themes while exploring the roles of the main theme files for web applications...

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