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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)

Summary

We started this chapter with the intention of building XML-RPC-based and REST-based APIs for web applications. Then, we discussed the usage of the existing XML-RPC API functions while building an API client from scratch.

We looked at the modern way of implementing API features through WordPress REST API. We discussed various aspects of REST API such as custom post type support, creating custom endpoints and creating internal and external API clients.

Complex applications will always exceed the limits of an existing API; hence, we looked at the possibility of creating a custom API with both XML-RPC and REST. User authentication is one of the most important aspects of an API and hence we implemented token based authentication in XML-RPC for preventing unnecessary API access and measuring the API usage. Similarly, we looked at various authentication techniques for REST API and completed the implementation with...