WordPress Web Application Development

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WordPress Web Application Development

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

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WordPress Web Application Development

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress Web Application Development Second Edition

WordPress Web Application Development Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

WordPress as a Web Application Framework

WordPress as a Web Application Framework

WordPress as a CMS

WordPress as a web application framework

Simplifying development with built-in features

Identifying the components of WordPress

A development plan for the portfolio management application

Understanding limitations and sticking to guidelines

Building a question-answer interface

Enhancing features of the questions plugin

Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features

Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features

Introduction to user management

Getting started with user roles

Understanding user capabilities

Registering application users

Implementing frontend registration

Creating a login form in the frontend

Time to practice

Planning and Customizing the Core Database

Planning and Customizing the Core Database

Understanding the WordPress database

Exploring the role of existing tables

Adapting existing tables into web applications

Extending the database with custom tables

Planning the portfolio application tables

Querying the database

Limitations and considerations

Building Blocks of Web Applications

Building Blocks of Web Applications

Introduction to custom content types

Planning custom post types for application

Implementing custom post types for a portfolio application

What is a template engine?

Persisting custom field data

Introducing custom post type relationships

Pods framework for custom content types

Time to practice

Developing Pluggable Modules

Developing Pluggable Modules

A brief introduction to WordPress plugins

WordPress plugins for web development

Time to practice

Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

Understanding the admin dashboard

Customizing the admin toolbar

Customizing the main navigation menu

Adding features with custom pages

Building options pages

Using feature-packed admin list tables

An awesome visual presentation for admin screens

The responsive nature of the admin dashboard

Time for action

Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends

Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends

An introduction to the WordPress application frontend

Web application layout creation techniques

Building the portfolio application home page

Widgetizing application layouts

Designing a home page template

Generating the application frontend menu

Managing options and widgets with customizer

Creating pluggable templates

Extending the home page template with action hooks

Planning action hooks for layouts

Time for action

Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins

Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins

Why choose open source libraries?

Open source libraries inside the WordPress core

Open source JavaScript libraries in the WordPress core

Using PHPMailer for custom e-mail sending

Implementing user authentication with OpenAuth

Using third- party libraries and plugins

Time for action

Listening to Third-party Applications

Listening to Third-party Applications

Introduction to APIs

The WordPress XML-RPC API for web applications

Building the API client

Creating a custom API

Integrating API user authentication

Integrating API access tokens

Providing the API documentation

Time for action

Integrating and Finalizing the Portfolio Management Application

Integrating and Finalizing the Portfolio Management Application

Integrating and structuring the portfolio application

Adding the template loader dependencies

Interating the template loader into a user manager

Working with a restructured application

Updating a user profile with additional fields

Scheduling subscriber notifications

Time for action

Supplementary Modules for Web Development

Supplementary Modules for Web Development

Internationalization

Working with media grid and image editor

Introduction to the post editor

Lesser-known WordPress features

Introduction to multisite

Time for action

Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Configure and set up WordPress

Open source libraries and plugins

Online resources and tutorials

Index

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Chapter 9. Listening to Third-party Applications

The complexity and size of web applications prompts developers to think about rapid development processes through third-party applications. Basically, we use third-party frameworks and libraries to automate the common tasks of web applications. Alternatively, we can use third-party services to provide functionalities that are not directly related to the core logic of application. Using APIs is a popular way of working with third-party services. The creation of an API opens the gates for third-party applications to access our the data of our applications.

WordPress provides the ability to create an API through its built-in API powered by XML-RPC. Also, WordPress is moving towards the JSON REST API, and hopefully, it will be available in the near future. The existing XML-RPC API caters to the blogging and CMS functionalities, while allowing developers to extend the APIs with custom functionalities. This chapter covers the basics of an existing...