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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

Implementing custom post type features with popular plugins

Throughout this chapter, we developed common custom post features needed for web applications. Even the implementation of common features from scratch needed considerable effort. As applications grow, we need more custom post types, hence we need features such as managing settings through interfaces, advanced post field types, and managing field saving/validations without coding. In such situations, it's a wise decision to use plugins with these advanced features rather than building everything from scratch.

So, we discussed Pods in the previous section as it's one of the best custom post type management plugins available. Here, are we going to look at two popular alternatives, so that you can compare and use the right solution for your application.

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