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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

Understanding restriction levels

We have two important aspects in content restrictions. First, we need to identify different content types that need to be restricted and then identify which user types are restricted from accessing this content. So, we group the users and define specific restriction levels for these user groups. Let's identify the most commonly used restriction levels in WordPress web applications:

  • User roles-based restrictions
  • User groups-based restrictions
  • Membership plans-based restrictions
  • Unique password-based restrictions

Let's take a look at how these restriction levels are implemented.

User roles-based restrictions

User roles is a default WordPress feature and it's the only technique that we can use as a restriction level...

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