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Wordpress Web Application  Development

You're reading from   Wordpress Web Application Development Building robust web apps easily and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126800
Length 536 pages
Edition 3rd 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. Implementing Application Content Restrictions 6. Developing Pluggable Modules 7. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends 8. Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends 9. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins 10. Listening to Third-Party Applications 11. Integrating and Finalizing the Forum Management Application 12. Supplementary Modules for Web Development 13. Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Managing application scripts and styles

In application development, we use scripts and style files from third-party open source libraries, WordPress core, and the files created from scratch for our own application requirements. So, it very important to understand how to load and work with these files properly. When scripts and styles are not used properly, we have to face some issues as listed:

  • Scripts and styles of one plugin could create conflicts with scripts and styles of another plugin.
  • Possibility of duplicate file inclusion.
  • Application might try to use the scripts before they are included.

We can use the WordPress recommended techniques for loading of scripts and styles to avoid such issues. WordPress recommends developers use wp_enqueue_scripts for the frontend, and the admin_enqueue_scripts function for the backend loading of scripts and styles. So, we have to use following syntax to add the files correctly...

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