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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Development Quick Start Guide Build beautiful and dynamic websites for your domain from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342871
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. Introduction to WordPress Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval 3. Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development 4. Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development 5. Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions 6. Practical Usage of WordPress APIs 7. Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms 8. Discovering Key Modules in Development 9. Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the importance of database usage

In today's world, many of the developers doesn't have in-depth knowledge of WordPress core features and yet, capable of turning your requirement into a working solution. However, these solutions are often based on assumptions, rather than knowing the exact process and data usage under the hood.

Tracking database usage and knowing the exact data needs of any given process is crucial for building flexible and extendable solutions that integrate perfectly with other parts of the site. Let's identify some of the use cases where you need perfect knowledge of data usage in WordPress features:

Building existing features on the frontend

WordPress offers a powerful backend...

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