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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)

Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

Usually, full-stack PHP frameworks don't provide built-in admin sections. So, developers have to build an application's backend from scratch. WordPress is mainly built on an existing database, which makes it possible to provide a prebuilt admin section. Most of the admin functionality is developed to cater to the existing content management functionality. As developers, you won't be able to develop complex applications without having the knowledge of extending and customizing the capabilities of existing features.

The structure and content of this chapter is built in a way that enables the tackling of the extendable and customizable components of admin screens and features. We will be looking at the various aspects of an admin interface while building the forum management application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding...