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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)

Limitations and considerations

We have less flexibility with the WordPress built-in database than when we design a database from scratch. Limitations and features unique to WordPress need to be understood clearly to make full use of the framework and avoid potential bottlenecks. Let's find out some of the WordPress-specific features and their usage in web applications.

Transaction support

In advanced applications, we can have multiple database queries, which need to be executed inside a single process. We have to make sure that either all queries get executed successfully or none of them get executed, to maintain the consistency of the data. This process is known as transaction management in application development. In simple website development, we rarely get...