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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 content restriction types and techniques

Up to this point, we discussed the most commonly used content restriction types and their usage. There are many other supplementary restriction types used in modern web applications. We are going to look at some of the important ones among the dozens of restrictions available.

Restrictions on custom generated content

This is one of the most important restriction types and there are limited plugins that support restrictions on custom content. Custom generated content is generally provided by plugins and hence applying restrictions might be difficult in a normal procedure. In Chapter 2, Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features, we created a custom path called /user/login and /user/registration....