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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

Registering application users

An administration panel is built into the WordPress framework, allowing us to log in through the admin screen. Therefore, we have a registration area, which can be used to add new users by providing a username and e-mail. In web applications, registration can become complex, compared to the simple registration process in WordPress. Let's consider some typical requirements of web application registration process in comparison with WordPress:

  • User-friendly interface: An application can have different types of user roles. Until registration is completed, everyone is treated as a normal application user with the ability to view public content. Typically, users are used to seeing fancy registration forms inside the main site rather than a completely different login area such as with WordPress. Therefore, we need to explore the possibilities of adding WordPress registration to the frontend.
  • Requesting detailed information: Most web applications will have at least...
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