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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

Chapter 6. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

Usually, developers build an application's backend from scratch as full stack PHP frameworks don't provide built-in admin sections. WordPress is mainly built on an existing database and hence, makes it possible to provide a pre-built admin section. Most of the admin functionality is developed to cater to the existing content management functionality. As developers, you won't be able to develop complex applications without having the knowledge of extending and customizing the capabilities of existing features.

The structure and content of this chapter is built in a way that enables tackling of the extendable and customizable components of admin screens and features. We will be looking at the various aspects of an admin interface using popular frameworks and libraries while building the portfolio management application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the admin dashboard
  • Customizing...
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