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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

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.