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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

Enhancing features of the questions plugin

In the previous sections, we illustrated how to quickly adapt WordPress into different kinds of implementations by customizing its core features. However, I had to limit the functionality to the most basic level in order to keep this chapter short and interesting for beginners. If you are willing to improve it, you can try other new features of such an application. Here, we will be looking at some of the enhancements to this plugin and how we can use core WordPress features to implement them.

Customizing the design of questions

This is one of the major requirements in such an application. Here, we have a very basic layout and it's difficult to know whether this is a question or just a normal post. Consider the following screenshot for a well-designed question interface:

Remember that we customized the comments list for adding new options. Similarly, we can customize the design of questions to create an interface such as the previous screenshot by using a separate template file for the questions custom post type. We have to create a file called single-wpwa_question.php and change the design and functionality as we want.

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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition
Published in: May 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787126800
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