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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is one of the most rapidly expanding markets on the Web. Learning how to build complex and scalable web applications will give you the ability and knowledge to step into the future of WordPress. WordPress 4.7 introduces some exciting new improvements and several bug fixes, which further improve the entire development process.This book is a practical, scenario-based guide to expanding the power of the WordPress core modules to develop modular and maintainable real-world applications from scratch. This book consistently emphasizes adapting WordPress features into web applications. It will walk you through the advanced usages of existing features such as access controlling; database handling; custom post types; pluggable plugins; content restrictions; routing; translation; caching; and many more, while you build the backend of a forum management application. This book begins by explaining how to plan the development of a web application using WordPress' core features. Once the core features are explained, you will learn how to build an application by extending them through custom plugin development. Finally, you will explore advanced non-functional features and application integration. After reading this book, you will have the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Time for action

Throughout this chapter, we looked at the various aspects of the WordPress XML-RPC API and REST API while developing practical scenarios. In order to build stable and complex custom APIs, you should have practical experience of the preceding techniques. I recommend that you try the following tasks to extend the knowledge gathered in this chapter:

  • You can measure the API usage through the number of requests.
  • We created an API function to list all the forums and topics of the application. Try to introduce the filtering of results with additional parameters.
  • The XML-RPC API created in this chapter returns an array as the result. Introduce different result formats such as JSON, XML, and array, so that developers can choose their preferred format.
  • Implement OAuth based token authentication for REST API.