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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

A brief introduction to WordPress plugins

WordPress offers one of the most flexible plugin architectures, alongside other similar frameworks such as Joomla and Drupal. The existence of over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin directory proves the vital role of plugins. In typical websites, we create simple plugins to tweak the theme's functionalities or application-specific tasks. The complexity of web applications forces us to modularize the functionalities to enhance their maintainability. Most application developers will be familiar with the concept of the open-closed principle.

The open-closed principle states that the design and writing of code should be done in a way that new functionality should be added with minimum changes in the existing code. The design of the code should be done in a way to allow the addition of new functionalities as new classes, keeping as much of the existing code unchanged...
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