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You're reading from WordPress Web Application Development Everyone it seems loves WordPress and this is your opportunity to take your existing design and development skills to the next stage. Learn in easy stages how to speedily build leading-edge web applications from scratch.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280759

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. WordPress As a Web Application Framework

2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features FREE CHAPTER

3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database

4. The Building Blocks of Web Applications

5. Developing Pluggable Modules

6. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

7. Adjusting Themes 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

A. Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Index

Adding features with custom pages

WordPress was originally created as a blogging platform and evolved into a content management system. Hence, most of the core functionalities are implemented on the concept of posts and pages. In web applications, we need to go way beyond these basic posts and pages to build quality applications. Custom menu pages play a vital role in implementing custom functionalities within the WordPress admin dashboard. Let's consider the various types of custom pages in the default context:

Options pages: These are used to manage the options of the application. Even though the option pages are generally used for theme options, we can manage any type of application-specific settings with these pages.
Custom menu pages: Generally, these pages are blank by default. We need to implement the interface as well as the implementation for catering to custom requirements that can't take advantage of WordPress' core features.