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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126800
Pages 536 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Author (1):
Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
Profile icon Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. WordPress as a Web Application Framework 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

Summary

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...

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