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WordPress Web Application Development - Second Edition

You're reading from   WordPress Web Application Development - Second Edition Build rapid web applications with cutting-edge technologies using WordPress

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782174394
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. WordPress as a Web Application Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features 3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database 4. Building Blocks of Web Applications 5. Developing Pluggable Modules 6. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends 7. Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends 8. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins 9. Listening to Third-party Applications 10. Integrating and Finalizing the Portfolio Management Application 11. Supplementary Modules for Web Development A. Configurations, Tools, and Resources Index

WordPress plugins for web development

By default, WordPress offers blogging and CMS functionalities to cater to simple applications. In real web applications, we need to develop most things using the existing features provided by WordPress. In short, all those web application-related features will be implemented using plugins. In this book, we have created a main plugin for portfolio management application. This plugin was intended to provide project specific tasks in our application and is hence not reusable in different projects. We need more and more reusable plugins and libraries as developers who are willing to take long journeys in web application development with WordPress. In this section, we will discuss the various types of such plugins:

  • Reusable libraries
  • Extensible plugins
  • Pluggable plugins

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Keep in mind that plugins are categorized into the previously mentioned types conceptually, for the sake of understanding various features of plugin development. Don't try to search...

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