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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 began this chapter by looking at the issues of the application plugins developed throughout the first 10 chapters of the book. Once the inconsistencies were fixed, we implemented a few new requirements, such as subscriber notifications, forum details page, topic details page, topic creation, join to forums, and additional user profile fields in order to understand how to add new features into existing applications and integrate all parts.

Here, we are completing the demo application for this book with the basic foundation of the forum application. You can improve and complete the remaining functionality of forum application with the code provided in book website.

You can now take a look at the next chapter for supplementary modules for WordPress applications. This will be a theoretical chapter explaining the concepts to improve your application with utility features.

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