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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)

Integrating the template loader into a user manager

In Chapter 2, Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features, we used direct file inclusions to load the necessary templates. A few chapters later, we improved the loading of templates by introducing a common template loader. Now, we can integrate the template loader into the user management functionality to keep the code consistent.

Let's apply the template loader instead of using direct template inclusions. Consider the template loading section of the display_registration_form function, as shown in the following code:

    include dirname(__FILE__) . '/templates/register-template.php'; 
exit;

Now, we can take a look at the modified version with the support of the template loader object, as shown in the following code:

    ob_start(); 
$wpwa_template_loader->get_template_part('register');
echo ob_get_clean();
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