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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280759

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

WordPress plugins for web development

By default, WordPress offers blogging and CMS functionalities to cater to simple applications. In real web applications, we need to develop most of the applications using the existing features provided by WordPress. In short, all those web application related features will be implemented using plugins. Throughout this book, we created a few plugins intended for providing implementations for the portfolio management application. All those plugins were focused on a specific task in our application and hence were not reusable in different projects. As developers who are willing to take a long journey in web application development with WordPress, we need more and more reusable plugins and libraries. In this section, we are going to discuss various such plugins: