Generally, other PHP frameworks don't provide advanced built-in features for supplementary modules we discussed in this chapter. So, we have to find or develop them from scratch. However, WordPress comes with a powerful plugin directory with close to 50,000 plugins. It keeps increasing every day at a speed beyond the imagination. So, we can find an existing plugin for almost all the features we need. All the supplementary modules discussed in this chapter are covered by a large number of plugins and hence we can quickly work on nonfunctional tasks of our application compared to other PHP frameworks.
WordPress is slowly but surely becoming a trend in web application development. Developers are getting started on building larger applications by customizing existing modules and features. However, there are a lot of limitations and a lack of resources for web development-related tasks. So, the best practices...