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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

Generating the application frontend menu


Typically, a web application's frontend navigation menu varies from the backend menu. WordPress has a unique backend with the admin dashboard. The logged-in users will see the backend menu on the top of the frontend screens as well. In the previous chapter, we looked at various ways of customizing the backend navigation menu. Here, we will look at how the frontend menu works within WordPress.

Navigate to the themes folder and open the header.php file of the Responsive theme. You will find the implementation for the frontend menu using the wp_nav_menu function. This function is used to display the navigation menus generated from the Appearance section of the WordPress admin dashboard. As far as the portfolio application is concerned, we need four different frontend menus for normal users, developers, followers, and members. By default, WordPress uses the assigned menu or the default page list to create the menu. Here, we will create four different navigation...

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