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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

Understanding the WordPress database

Typical full stack web development frameworks don't come with a preplanned database structure. Instead, these frameworks focus on the core foundation of an application while allowing the developers to focus on application-specific features. On the other hand, WordPress provides a preplanned database structure with a fixed set of tables. WordPress is built to function as a content management system and hence it can be classified as a product rather than a pure development framework. A WordPress core database is designed to power the generic functionalities of a CMS. So, it's our responsibility to use our skills to make it work as an application development framework.

Our WordPress database is intended to work with MySQL and hence we need to have a MySQL database set up before installing WordPress. On successful installation, WordPress will create 11 database tables to cater to core functionality with the default MySQL table engine.