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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

Pods framework for custom content types

Up until this point, we have explored the advanced usage of WordPress custom post types by considering the perspective of web applications. Although custom post types provide immense power and flexibility for web applications, manual implementation is a time-consuming task with an awful amount of duplicate and complex code. One of the major reasons for using WordPress for web development is its ability to build things rapidly. Therefore, we need to look for quicker and more flexible solutions beyond manual custom post implementations.

Pods is a custom content type management framework, which has been becoming popular among developers in recent years. Most of the tedious functionalities are baked into the framework, while providing us with a simpler interface for managing custom content types. Apart from simplifying the process, Pods provides an extensive list of functionalities...

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