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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)

Updating a user profile with additional fields

The forum user profile page was created in Chapter 9, Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins, with the use of Backbone.js and Underscore.js. The Profile section of this page was limited to the name of the user as we had very limited information for the users. Here, we will capture more information by using additional fields on the profile screen of the WordPress dashboard. So, let's update the constructor function of the WPWAF_User class to add the necessary actions for editing the profile, as shown in the following code:

    add_action('show_user_profile', array($this, 
"add_profile_fields"));
add_action('edit_user_profile', array($this,
"add_profile_fields"));

We have defined two actions to be executed on the user profile screen. Both the show_user_profile and edit_user_profile actions are used...