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 of the applications using the existing features provided by WordPress. In short, all those web application related features will be implemented using plugins. Throughout this book, we created a few plugins intended for providing implementations for the portfolio management application. All those plugins were focused on a specific task in our application and hence were not reusable in different projects. As developers who are willing to take a long journey in web application development with WordPress, we need more and more reusable plugins and libraries. In this section, we are going to discuss various such plugins:
Reusable libraries
Extensible plugins
Pluggable plugins
Note
Keep in mind that plugins are categorized into the preceding types conceptually for the sake of understanding the various features of plugin...
