The forum management system developed throughout this book will make use of existing tables in every possible scenario. However, it's hard to imagine even an average web application without using custom tables, so here we will identify the possible custom tables for our system. You might need to revisit the planning section in the Development plan for forum management application section of Chapter 1, WordPress as a Web Application Framework, in order to remind yourself of the system requirements. We planned to create a functionality to allow free and premium members to subscribe to follow topic activities in the system. Let's discuss the requirement in detail to identify the potential tables we'll need.
Forum users will be able to create their own topics and respond to topics of other users. It's important to receive notifications on the topics, since users...