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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)

Supplementary Modules for Web Development

In web application development, we mainly focus and plan our business logic. Throughout the first 11 chapters of this book, we developed features that are directly related to the forum management application. However, there are supplementary features that are not related to the business requirements of the application and yet play a vital part in the success of a project.

Multilanguage support, caching, performance, and security are important features of any web application. WordPress provides built-in features to support these types of non-application-related tasks. Apart from this, WordPress also offers some features that can be used to improve the flexibility and user experience of applications. Throughout this chapter, we will give a brief introduction to these supplementary modules so that you can use them when the opportunity arises.

In this chapter, we will cover...