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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

You're reading from Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

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

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

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

Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins

WordPress is one of the most popular open source frameworks, serving millions of people around the world. The WordPress core itself uses dozens of open source libraries to power existing features. Web application development is a time-consuming affair compared to generic websites. Hence, developers get very limited opportunities for building everything from the ground up, creating the need for using stable open source libraries.

With the latest versions, WordPress has given higher priority for using stable and trending open source libraries within its core. Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and jQuery masonry are recent popular additions among such open source library. Inclusion of these types of libraries gives a hint about the improvement of WordPress as a web development framework.

We will discuss the various use of these existing open source libraries within...

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Authors (1)

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake is a freelance web developer, writer, and open source enthusiast. He has over 9 years of experience in developing WordPress applications and plugins. He develops premium WordPress plugins for individual clients and the CodeCanyon marketplace. User Profiles Made Easy and WP Private Content Pro are the most popular plugins developed by him. Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js was his first book, which was published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the first three editions of WordPress Web Application Development. In his spare time, he likes to read books and spend time with his family

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