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

Exploring the role of existing tables

Assuming that most of you are existing WordPress developers, you will have a solid understanding of the existing database table structure. However, I suggest you to continue with this section, as web applications can have a different perspective in using these tables. Based on the functionality, we are going to categorize the existing tables into four sections, named:

User-related tables
Post-related tables
Term-related tables
Other tables

Let's look at how each table fits into these categories and their role in web applications.

User-related tables

This section consists of two tables for maintaining the user-related information of your application. Let's take a look at the relationship between user-related tables before moving on to explanations. The following diagram will give a brief idea on this: