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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

Limitations and considerations

We have less flexibility with the WordPress built-in database than when we design a database from scratch. Limitations and features unique to WordPress need to be understood clearly to make full use of the framework and avoid potential bottlenecks. Let's find out some of the WordPress-specific features and their usage in web applications.

Transaction support

In advanced applications, we can have multiple database queries, which need to be executed inside a single process. We have to make sure that either all queries get executed successfully or none of them get executed, to maintain the consistency of the data. This process is known as transaction management in application development. In simple website development, we rarely get...

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