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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)

Essential user management features for web applications

As discussed throughout this chapter, user management is one of the most important tasks in web application development. Only limited types of applications can be built without needing user management. So we discussed some of the core user management features available in WordPress and we will be exploring more built-in user features in upcoming chapters.

The built-in user management features of WordPress focus more on the administrative side. There are very limited user management features for the user in the frontend of the application. Therefore, often we need to develop additional user management features for the frontend or use custom plugins that provide such features. In this section, we will be discussing some of the most important and commonly used user management features, as follows:

  • Frontend login and registration
  • Custom profile fields
  • Private...