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WordPress Web Application Development

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280759
Length 376 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 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

Understanding the admin dashboard


WordPress offers one of the most convenient admin sections among similar frameworks such as Drupal and Joomla! for building any kind of application. In the previous chapters, we looked at the administration screens related to various areas such as user management, custom post types, and posts. Here, we are going to look at some of the remaining components in the perspective of web application development. Let's identify the list of sections we are going to consider:

  • The admin toolbar

  • The main navigation menu

  • Option and menu pages

  • Admin list tables

  • Responsive design capabilities

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